Trafford Adult Activity Levels May 2020-21

The latest Active Lives results published by Sport England show that 75.0% of adults in Trafford are active for at least 30 minutes a week, equating to 140,100 adults moving; a decrease of 8,100 from the survey 12 months ago.

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

Trafford Overview

75.0% of adults in Trafford are now moving (active and fairly active), this equates to 140,100 adults. Since Active Lives launched, November 2015-16, inactivity in Trafford has decreased by 2.2%, meanwhile in Greater Manchester the rate has increased by 2.0%, in the last 12 months it has risen by 4.4% in Trafford.

Line graph showing inactivity in Trafford and Greater Manchester

Demographic data

The inactivity gender gap in Trafford is 2.4%

Since November 15/16 the gender gap has decreased by 9.8%. This change is due to a large decrease in inactivity amongst women (-9.5) and an increase in inactivity amongst men (+5.1%).

Learn more about activity levels related to gender here

 

Inactivity socio-economic gap in Trafford

There was insufficient data collected from lower socio-economic groups within Trafford for any statistical analysis. 

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

The inactivity disability gap in Trafford is 10.2%

Since November 15/16 the disability gap has decreased by 16.3%. This is due to an increase in inactivity amongst those without a long term limiting disability (+0.8%) and a decrease in inactivity amongst those with a long term limiting disability (-15.5%).

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

The inactivity age gap in Trafford is 18.3%

Since November 15/16 the age gap has decreased by 10.3%. This is a result of inactivity amongst over 75's declining (-10.9%) at a greater rate than for 16 to 34 year olds (-0.6%).

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 Trafford 21.6% of those from a White British background are inactive compared to 49.5% of those from a South Asian background.

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 October 2021

Older Active Lives articles can be found here.