Tameside Adult Activity Levels November 2019-20

The latest Active Lives results published by Sport England shows that 69.5% of adults in Tameside are active for at least 30 minutes a week, this equates to 125,600 adults moving. This is a decrease of 5,200 from 12 months ago.

Overhead view of a group dance exercise class in a community centre

Tameside Overview

The latest Active Lives data shows that there has been a decline in activity levels across Tameside in the last 12 months. 69.5% of adults in Tameside are now moving (active and fairly active), this equates to 125,600 adults. Since Active Lives launched, November 2015-16, the inactivity rate has remained static, meanwhile in Greater Manchester the rate has increased by 2.6%.

 

 

Demographic data

The inactivity gender gap in Tameside is 0.6%

Since November 15/16 the inactivity gender gap has decreased by 0.6%. This has been driven by a decrease in inactivity amongst women (-0.2%) and an increase in inactivity amongst men (+0.4%).

Learn more about activity levels related to gender here

The inactivity socio-economic gap in Tameside is 21.2%

Since November 15/16 the inactivity socio-economic gap has increased by 6.9%. This change is due to an increase in inactivity amongst lower socio-economic groups, NS-SEC 6-8 (+7.0%) being greater than the increase in inactivity amongst higher socio-economic groups, NS-SEC 1-2 (+0.1%).

Learn more about activity levels related to socio-economic status here

The inactivity disability gap in Tameside is 17.1%

Since November 15/16 the inactivity disability gap has decreased by 10.8%. This change is due to an increase in inactivity amongst those with no long term limiting disabilities (+1.6%) and a large decrease amongst those with a long term limiting disability (-9.2%).

Learn more about activity levels related to disability and long term health conditions here

The inactivity age gap in Tameside is 33.4%

Since November 15/16 the inactivity age gap has increased by 1.6%. This change is a result of a decline in inactivity amongst 16 to 34 year olds (-1.6%) and inactivity amongst over 75's not changing (0.0%).

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 Tameside 28.8% 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