Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of preventable ill health and premature mortality. Health inequalities among routine and manual workers can be influenced by a complex interplay of occupational hazards, health behaviours, and wider socioeconomic determinants. Health behaviours play a significant role, with routine and manual workers exhibiting higher rates of smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, and obesity compared to...
The JSNA Greater Essex Profiles offer a high-level overview of health for each lower-tier local authority in Greater Essex. They pull together existing information and data on a range of indicators for local populations, highlighting issues that can affect health in each locality. These reports should be used alongside the comprehensive suite of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) dashboards. These documents...
The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation in England. It is part of the Indices of Deprivation (IoD), which look at different aspects of disadvantage. IMD uses a well-established method to define deprivation broadly, covering many areas of life such as income, employment, health, education, housing, and living environment. The IMD 2025 initial report highlights...
Greater Essex Trends has been developed to describe and communicate some of the key challenges and drivers of change that are shaping the lives of people across our diverse communities. It describes some of the strengths of Greater Essex and the opportunities we will have to grow, learn, and prosper in the years ahead. By bringing these different threads together,...
An interactive report with the ability to cut and slice by Essex District and by date, as well as compare multiple measures for both single year and trends. The report is themed around five core topics with relevance to the economy of Essex: Business, Economy & Industry Balanced...
The Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With almost 6,000 residents responding to the 2022 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within the...
In February 2022, Essex County Council's Data and Analytics service undertook analysis into gender inequalities in Essex. This work looks into inequalities within: Education Income & Employment Built Environment (Household environments and fuel poverty) Health The analysis shows that within Essex, greater inequality is experienced by women within all aspects of life. The attached presentation provides more detail.
Essex and District Information
The above dashboard provides information about the extent of inequality at local authority level in England in the following domains: Income Rate of employment deprivation Rate of those not entering higher education Health (average years of potential life lost) Gini coefficients are a single number which describe how equally spread a resource (e.g income) is spread among...
Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2015, LSOA (Lower Super Output Area) rankings for Essex showing all sub domains
