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West locality

Map of Birmingham showing area covered by west locality

West locality is made up of Ladywood and Perry Barr constituencies.

The West locality had a population of approximately 263,919, 23.1% of Birmingham’s population, with an average age of 32.9 years; this is higher for females (33.4 years) and lower for males (32.3 years).
Life expectancy for females in the West locality was 83.0 which was higher than that for Birmingham females (82.6); but was low for males (77.3) compared to Birmingham males (78.4).
Infant mortality makes up 37.2% of excess years of life lost for the Ladywood constituency and 22.4% in the Perry Barr constituency.
Common causes of early deaths for both Ladywood and Perry Barr include coronary heart disease (17% and 10.6%, respectively) and accidental poisoning (14.9% and 11.3%, respectively).
COVID-19 accounted for 24.7% of all deaths in the West, the highest of all five localities. The locality had the worst rates for the first, second and booster vaccine uptake at 58%, 51% and 29%, respectively.
The West locality had more than half (51%) of its population (136,078) living in the most deprived decile and more than one in three (37.5%) children live in absolute poverty.
The admission rate in the West for violent crime was the highest of all localities (72 per 100,000) and was much worse than that found in England (42 per 100,000)
The West recorded the second highest prevalence for diabetes (9.8%) of all five localities.

West 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.