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Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2022/23

Opiate and crack use

9.6

Estimated users per 1,000 people aged 15 to 64.

Estimated prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use · Persons, 15-64 yrs

England: 8.5 · 2022/23 — Worse

healthcards · Kirklees · 2022/23

What this means

An estimated 9.6 in every 1,000 people aged 15 to 64 in Kirklees use opiates and/or crack cocaine — about 2,666 people.

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.

Source population denominator: 278,405 (Persons, 15-64 yrs); this measure is modelled, not a direct count of cases.

Fingertips comparison: Worse England.

Recorded value (Kirklees)

  1. 2022/23: 9.6

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Source & provenance

Indicator:
Estimated prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use (ID 91117)
Source:
DHSC and UKHSA, opiate and crack cocaine use prevalence estimates 2022 to 2023 (via OHID Fingertips)
Area:
Kirklees (E08000034), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:
2022/23; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:
Persons, 15-64 yrs
Note:
Modelled estimate, published every few years.

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Caveats

  • A modelled estimate of a hidden population, not a count of people identified or in treatment.
  • Published every few years, not annually — the latest estimate is 2022/23. Confidence interval: 8.8 to 10.5 per 1,000.
  • Covers opiates and/or crack cocaine only: not all drugs, and not alcohol.
  • The 2022/23 method changed: earlier estimates must not be directly compared with this release.
  • Area-level estimate. It says nothing about any individual.
  • Higher means more estimated opiate and/or crack cocaine use. Not a measure of treatment need or of harm to any person.

Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.