Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2024/25

Small beginnings

12.5%

Reception children living with obesity.

Reception prevalence of obesity (including severe obesity) · Persons, 4-5 yrs

England: 10.5% · 2024/25 — Worse

healthcards · Kirklees · 2024/25

What this means

About 1 in 8 children starting school in Kirklees live with obesity — 595 children measured in 2024/25. Weights are measured at school through the National Child Measurement Programme.

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: 11.6–13.5 %. Source denominator: 4,765 children with valid height and weight measurements (Persons, 4-5 yrs).

Fingertips comparison: Worse England.

Recent observations (Kirklees)

2021/22: 11.5%
2022/23: 10.9%
2023/24: 11.5%
2024/25: 12.5%

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:: Reception prevalence of obesity (including severe obesity) (ID 90319)
Source:: Department of Health and Social Care, National Child Measurement Programme
Area:: Kirklees (E08000034), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:: 2024/25; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:: Persons, 4-5 yrs

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Caveats

Population monitoring cut-offs differ from clinical ones — this is for tracking, not diagnosis.
Opt-outs and absence can bias results slightly.
Lower means fewer children living with obesity. Described factually, without stigma.

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