South Neighbourhood
Trafford's South neighbourhood consists of 7 wards: Altrincham, Bowdon, Broadheath, Hale Barns, Hale Central, Timperley, and Village.
Summary
The south neighbourhood shows the least ill health effects when compared to the other 3 neighbourhoods. In most instances, the effect of health outcomes and risk factors are similar or better when compared to the Trafford average. We do, however, have a similar pattern appear for the link between deprivation and health outcomes, as worse health outcomes are linked to higher levels of deprivation – this is particularly noticeable for the ward of Village. Due to the older demographic profiling of the south neighbourhood, the incidence of cause-specific cancers, cause-specific emergency admissions, and cause-specific mortality ratios may be higher than expected.
- Child excess weight is highest in the wards of Village and Hale Barns for reception children; and highest in the wards of Village and Broadheath for year 6 children.
- For child excess weight in the ward of Bowdon, there is a noticeable jump in the percentage of overweight year 6 children when compared to the percentage overweight reception children.
- National and local 21/22 data suggests increasing trends in child excess weight.
- For males and females, there’s a large gap in life expectancy between wards with the highest and lowest life expectancy.
- Across the neighbourhood, emergency admissions are highest for the cause-specific condition, Stroke – statistically similar to or higher than England.
- In addition to Village, the ward of Altrincham also has higher cancer incidence and mortality ratios when compared to other neighbourhood wards – this is particularly noticeable for mortality ratios in people under the age of 75.
- There was an increase in the percentage of residents claiming out of work benefits since COVID-19 across the neighbourhood, noticeably higher in the ward of Village, but not dissimilar to the Trafford average.