Stockport Adult Activity Levels November 2019-20

Stockport Overview

The latest Active Lives data shows that there has been a decline in activity levels across Stockport in the last 12 months. 73.8% of adults in Stockport are now moving (active and fairly active), this equates to 174,400 adults. Since Active Lives launched, November 2015-16, the inactivity rate has increased by 3.1%, meanwhile in Greater Manchester the rate has increased by 2.6%.

When this latest release is combined with activity data on children and young people, 202,300 Stockport residents are moving.

Find out more about activity levels of children and young people in Stockport here.

Demographic data

	The inactivity gender gap in Stockport is 5.9% Since November 15/16 the gender gap has increased by 5.0%. This change is due to a greater rate of increase in inactivity amongst women (+5.5%) than men (+0.5%). Learn more about activity levels related to gender here
	The inactivity socio-economic gap in Stockport is 19.4% Since November 16/17 the socio-economic gap has increased by 16.9%. This increase has been driven by a large increase amongst lower socio-economic groups, NS-SEC 6-8, (+17.4%) and a small increase amongst higher socio-economic groups, NS-SEC 1-2 (+0.5%). Learn more about activity levels related to socio-economic status here
	The inactivity disability gap in Stockport is 19.4% Since November 15/16 the gender gap has decreased by 1.6%. This change is due to a smaller increase in inactivity amongst with a long term limiting disability (+1.1%) than amongst those with no long term limiting disability (+2.8%). Learn more about activity levels related to disability and long term health conditions here
	The inactivity age gap in Stockport is 26.6% Since November 15/16 the gender gap has decreased by 2.3%. This decrease has been driven by falling inactivity amongst over 75's (-1.6%) and an increase in inactivity amongst 16 to 34 year olds (+0.7%). Learn more about activity levels related to age here
	Ethnicity Due to limited sample sizes we have limited ethnicity data across the Greater Manchester boroughs. In Stockport 24.7% of those from a White British background are inactive. Learn more about activity levels related to ethnicity here

If you have questions about this data please email: [email protected]

All data is rounded to one decimal point, you can access the raw data here.

Published June 2021