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Bolton Tobacco Control Plan 2022 - 2026

Smoking remains the biggest cause of ill health and early death in the UK (United Kingdom).  Bolton aims to create a positive movement across the borough towards becoming Smokefree.  Find out more in Bolton's Tobacco Control Plan 2022 - 2026

Director of Public Health's annual report 2023: Community matters

This year's annual report looks at the strengths and resources in our communities are helping them to stay well, sometimes referred to as a community asset-based approach. Find out more on the public health annual report page

Greater Manchester VRU's strategic needs assessment for violence

The Greater Manchester VRU strategic needs assessment for violence is now available from the Violence Reduction Unit website
 
2023/24 updates are also available

Bolton's violence prevention strategy

Bolton's violence prevention strategy 2024-27 is now available to view

Dementia in Bolton

Outputs from an in depth piece of work on dementia in Bolton are now available.

Access a range of local boundaries and geographies!

Check out the Geographies page of this website to see the range of geographies in use locally and download files for your own use. Includes a Bolton postcode lookup (giving geographical location of postcodes and which geographies they fall within) and a range of local boundary files in a variety of file formats.

Census 2021

The census provides an invaluable source of information on the population relating to a wide range of topics. Because (nearly) everyone fills it in, you can get information from it about very small areas.

Census resources:

  • Census maps - easy to use tool for viewing census data in a map format for various types of geographies
  • build a custom area profile - easy to use tool that lets you build a custom geography (or use existing ones) and see how various census data compares for your area and a comparator, such as England or the rest of Bolton.
  • Origin-destination explorer - for people moving house and commuting to work (pandemic will impact commute data)
  • Create a custom dataset - look at how several factors vary together in a combination you select and download as a dataset.
  • NOMIS - download pre-made tables of current and previous census data.
  • How life has changed in Bolton - the ONS has produced a series of reports looking at changes since the previous census at local authority level.
  • The ONS website provides informatation on exising and upcoming releases from the 2021 and previous censuses.

Census briefings:

Nugget of the week

15th January 2025

15% of Bolton residents smoke, down from 24% in 2011. Bolton used to have worse smoking rates than England as a whole, but our rates are now similar.

  • Smoking is the most important cause of preventable ill health and premature death in the UK and one of the main causes of health inequalities.
  • If you look at this chart from the Office of Health Inequalities and Disparities (OHID)’s fingertips tool (which has lots of other useful information on it), it shows how smoking levels have changed over time in Bolton compared to England as a whole.
  • These figures come from survey data, surveys can’t ask everyone as this would be impractical and expensive. Instead a sample of people with similar characteristics to the population as a whole are asked, and statistics are used to tell what is a real difference what and might just be a fluctuation.
  • Yellow indicates that Bolton is similar to England, red that Bolton is worse than England, green would indicate that Bolton is better than England.

Find out more about smoking and other health behaviours on the Lifestyles and behaviours page

8th January 2025

Bolton’s population is now over 300,000

  • The latest estimates (mid 2023) give Bolton’s population as 302,383
  • This would fill the toughsheet stadium 10½ times over (stadium capacity 28,723)
  • 2½ stadiums would be full of children under 18
  • A further 2 stadiums would be full of older adults aged 65+

Find out more about Bolton’s population and how it’s forecast to change on the Population page

JSNA webinars

Webinar 2 - inequalities

Bolton’s JSNA can be found on www.boltonjsna.org.uk and contains a wealth of information about the Bolton population, their current health, and the wide range of factors that affect health such as the physical and social environment people live in. This will be of use to people who need to consider information about Bolton in funding bids, service recommissioning, student projects, or equality impact assessments. Join this session to: Discover how an intelligence informed approach helped targeting of activities aimed at increasing Covid vaccination uptake where it was lowest; increase your understanding of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation, a core dataset for understanding small area socio-economic inequality, and resources about this on the JSNA website; and find out more about inequalities in relation to Bolton’s climate emergency.

Webinar 1 - what is the JSNA & how can I use it?

Bolton’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is a statutory assessment of the current and future health and care needs of the Bolton population. Join this session for a guided tour of the JSNA website, and to hear about how it’s been used in relation to Bolton’s Fund community grants scheme and Bolton’s equality strategy.