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Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2024/25

Kirklees & Leeds. A childhood health gap.

1.04×

the Year 6 obesity prevalence of Leeds.

Year 6 prevalence of obesity (including severe obesity) · Persons, 10-11 yrs

Kirklees: 23.7% · Leeds: 22.8%

Children aged 10–11. Area prevalence, not personal risk. Significance not tested.

healthcards · Kirklees · 2024/25

What this means

In 2024/25, 23.7% of measured Year 6 children in Kirklees were living with obesity, compared with 22.8% in Leeds. That is 1.04 times the prevalence, or 3.9% higher in relative terms (0.9 percentage points higher). This does not mean moving between areas changes a child's risk.

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.

Children aged 10–11. Area prevalence, not personal risk. Significance not tested.

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Source & provenance

Indicator:
Year 6 prevalence of obesity (including severe obesity) (ID 90323)
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 2026-10-10 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:
Persons, 10-11 yrs

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Caveats

  • Children aged 10–11. Area prevalence, not personal risk. Significance not tested.
  • Same measurement programme and cut-off notes as reception.
  • Compares the same school year, not the same children tracked over time.
  • Calculated from unrounded observations with the same indicator, age, sex and reporting period. Displayed inputs are rounded.
  • Formula: local prevalence / comparator prevalence. Area populations differ; no causal conclusion or city-to-city significance test is implied.
  • Lower means fewer children living with obesity.

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