Sport England have refreshed their small area estimates which help understand neighbourhood inactivity rates.
The latest released data is now available for 2024.
Sport England have released a new mapping tool showing activity levels at MSOA (on average has a population of around 9,000 people) and LSOA (on average has a population of around 1,700 people) throughout the country. If you are interested in looking closer at local communities this tool will be invaluable.
It looks at both the Active and Inactive communities. And will display sports participation data.
It includes separate data for Adults, and Children and Young People.
It also presents demographic information through the small areas tool, offering a more detailed insight into the estimated physical activity levels in our communities. This includes Age, Disability, Gender, Ethnicity, and Socio-economic factors.
You can access the interactive tool below.
You'll be able to:
Access the mapping tool to run your own queries, including overlaying some census data with physical activity data.
The raw data is available for those that want to play around and interrogate it, or add it to their own mapping software.
Click the link to connect to a fully interactive map, and explore your local area.
Below is an interactive map showing the estimates of the most inactive children and young people in deeper reds.
Click the link to connect to a fully interactive map, and explore your local area.
Below is an interactive map showing the estimates of the most inactive adults in deeper reds.
If you have any questions about using data or insight within what you do, speak to Mac to see if he can help.
Mac is responsible for analysing activity data to provide Active Sussex and partners with the insight needed to help people become more active.
He keeps up-to-date with all publicly available data sets and reports, that bring out that useful insight.
Mac works across all teams at Active Sussex, and work closely with the Marketing and Communications officer to ensure effective communication of strategic messages around physical inactivity through case studies and reports, as well as sharing impact and learning with external stakeholders.
He is also responsible for Active Sussex’s GDPR compliance policies. So if you are worried about Data Protection, drop him a line, and he'll do his best to help you.
Email: macince@activesussex.org