Childhood obesity for children in Year 6 by London borough (2013/14 and 2023/24)
Last updated: December 2024
Next estimated update: December 2025
What’s this indicator?
This indicator shows the proportion of children in year 6 (aged 10-11) that are considered obese in each London borough.
What does it tell us?
Childhood obesity is more prevalent in London than England overall. In 2023/24, some 24% of children in Year 6 were considered obese in London, compared to 22.1% in England.
Over the last decade, the prevalence of childhood obesity has risen by 1.6 percentage points in London and 3.0 percentage points in England. The majority of London boroughs had a higher prevalence of childhood obesity than England overall in both 2013/14 and 2023/24.
Public Health England’s latest figures in 2023/24 show that Barking and Dagenham has the highest proportion of childhood obesity out of all London boroughs at 29.3%. The boroughs that have seen the largest rise in childhood obesity since 2013/14 are Havering and Newham both with a 4.0 percentage point increase. At the other end of the scale, 13.3% of Year 6 children in Richmond upon Thames are obese in 2023/24. This is up 2.9% since the decade before.
While the majority of boroughs saw rates of childhood obesity rise between 2013/14 and 2023/24, five boroughs saw rates decline. Westminster experienced the greatest decline in childhood obesity with a 2.9 percentage point decrease within the decade, from 26.9 to 24.0%.
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