Wakefield local authority · 2024/25

Wakefield & Leeds. A childhood health gap.

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the Year 6 obesity prevalence of Leeds.

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

Wakefield: 23.9% · Leeds: 22.8%

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

healthcards · Wakefield · 2024/25

What this means

In 2024/25, 23.9% of measured Year 6 children in Wakefield were living with obesity, compared with 22.8% in Leeds. That is 1.05 times the prevalence, or 4.8% higher in relative terms (1.1 percentage points higher). This does not mean moving between areas changes a child's risk.

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:: Wakefield (E08000036), 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.