Smoking in Huddersfield.

Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2 cards

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.

Who smokes in Kirklees — and where the burden falls heaviest.

Plain-English context

Smoking is still the single biggest preventable cause of early death in England. Overall, 8.6% of adults in Kirklees smoke — but among people in routine and manual jobs it is 19.8%. These estimates cover different age groups and reporting periods; their ratio is not a matched inequality measure. Figures are self-reported survey estimates with wide margins.

Sources: ONS Annual Population Survey via OHID Fingertips, Tobacco Control profiles. Each card states its reporting period; open its share page for the retrieval date and full provenance.