Bury Overview

The latest Active Lives Release, May 2019/20, has seen an increase (4.2%) in the inactive population in Bury in the last 12 months. Bury has seen the percentage of people moving, active for at least 30 minutes a week, decrease by 3.1% since Active Lives began (November 2015/16) in comparison Greater Manchester as a whole has increased the moving population by 0.5% in the same time period.

When this latest release is combined with activity data on children and young people, 123,800 Bury residents are moving.
Find out more about activity levels of children and young people in Bury here.
Inactivity Across Demographics
The largest inactivity gap amongst adults in Bury is the socio-economic gap with a 25.1% gap, the smallest is the gender gap with a 0.6% gap.
