Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2025
The bigger picture
82.8
Female life expectancy · years
Life expectancy at birth · Female, All ages
England: 83.8 · 2025 — Worse
healthcards · Kirklees · 2025
What this means
Female life expectancy at birth in Kirklees was 82.8 years using provisional 2025 death rates. This describes how long a newborn would live if those age-specific rates continued, not a prediction for an individual child.
Huddersfield is a town, not a statistical area: these figures are for Kirklees local authority as a whole (which includes Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley and surrounding towns). Treat them as the wider-area picture, not street-level results.
95% confidence interval: 82.2–83.3 years.
Fingertips comparison with England: Worse. 2025 uses provisional data.
Recent observations (Kirklees)
- 2023: 81.6
- 2024: 82.4
- 2025: 82.8
These points share an indicator, sex, age and period type. Source-method changes and overlapping pooled periods can limit comparisons; see the caveats.
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Source & provenance
- Indicator:
- Life expectancy at birth (ID 90366)
- Source:
- Office for National Statistics
- Area:
- Kirklees (E08000034), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
- Period:
- 2025; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
- Population:
- Female, All ages
- Note:
- Value based on provisional mortality and population data
Caveats
- 2025 figure uses provisional deaths and population — expect small revisions.
- Life expectancy is not healthy life expectancy: years lived in poor health are included.
- Higher means longer average lives.
Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.