Bury Adult Activity Levels May 2020-21

The latest Active Lives results published by Sport England show that 76.9% of adults in Bury are active for at least 30 minutes a week, equating to 116,800 adults moving; an increase of 9,400 from the survey 12 months ago.

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

Bury Overview

76.9% of adults in Bury are now moving (active and fairly active), this equates to 116,800 adults. Since Active Lives launched, November 2015-16, inactivity in Bury has decreased by 3.2%, meanwhile in Greater Manchester the rate has increased by 2.0%, in the last 12 months it has fallen by 6.2% in Bury.

Line graph showing inactivity in Bury and Greater Manchester

Demographic data

The inactivity gender gap in Bury is 3.2%

Since November 15/16 the gender gap has increased by 0.1%. This change is due to a decrease in inactivity amongst men (-6.3%) and no change in inactivity amongst women (0.0%).

Learn more about activity levels related to gender here

The inactivity socio-economic gap in Bury is 17.1%

Since November 15/16 the socio-economic gap has increased by 11.9%. This change is due to an increase in inactivity amongst lower social groups (+4.6%), NS-SEC 6-8, and a decrease in inactivity amongst higher social groups (-7.3%) NS-SEC 1-2.

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

The inactivity disability gap in Bury is 18.1%

Since November 15/16 the disability gap has decreased by 0.1%.  Inactivity has decreased amongst both those with a long term limiting disability and those without. However the rate of decrease has been slightly greater amongst those with a long term limiting disability (-3.7%) than in those without a long term limiting disability (-3.6%).

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

The inactivity age gap in Bury is 17.4%

Since November 15/16 the age gap has decreased by 10.4%. This is a result of inactivity amongst over 75's declining (-8.5%) and it increasing amongst 16 to 34 year olds (+1.9%).

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 Bury 20.3% of those from a White British background are inactive.

Learn more about activity levels related to ethnicity here

 

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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.