Local area health profiles

East locality

Map of Birmingham showing area covered by east locality

East locality is made up of Hodge Hill and Yardley constituencies.

  • The East locality had a population of approximately 241,929, 21.2% of Birmingham’s population, with an average age of 33.6 years; this is higher for females (34.5 years) and lower for males (32.7 years). The locality has a large young population.
  • The 2011 census showed that 50% of this area’s population are made up of BAME groups (15% England).
  • During the last decade (2009 to 2019), life expectancy had increased only slightly for the East locality, lagging behind both the Birmingham and England averages. The current life expectancy in the East locality for females is 81.2 years and 76.8 years for males compared to England’s 83.4 and 79.8 years, respectively.
  • The leading cause of death in both constituencies in the East Locality was infant mortality, accounting for 33.5% of early deaths in Hodge Hill, and 34.3% in Yardley.
  • 21.7% of all deaths in the East locality were due to COVID-19. The East locality had the highest number deaths due to COVID (786), compared to the five localities in Birmingham. The locality had the second lowest rates for the first, second and booster vaccine uptake at 64.4%, 56.4% and 31.8%, respectively.
  • The East locality had the highest level of deprivation in the city with 61% of the population, (148,639 people), living in the most deprived decile. 61.2% of the population in the East locality live in the most deprived decile, and 38.8% of children live in absolute poverty.
  • The East had the highest rate of all five localities at an average conception rate of 24 per 1,000.
  • Of the five Birmingham localities, the East had the highest death rate for cancer (295 per 100,000).
  • The prevalence for diabetes in the East locality was the highest of all localities (11.2%), which was also higher than England (7.1%).

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East locality is made of 2 constituencies:

Birmingham Public Health have produced health inequality infographics for each of Birmingham’s 69 wards:

Public Health reports for smaller area geographies such as wards and MSOA are available using Public Health England’s Local Health web tool.

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