Greater Manchester Activity Levels Nov 20-21: Age

A detailed breakdown of the latest Active Lives research from Sport England exploring the differences in activity levels by age across Greater Manchester.

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

The inactivity age gap in Greater Manchester is 28.1% and since November 15/16 (baseline) the age gap has decreased by 7.1%. This has been driven by an increase in inactivity amongst 16 to 34 year olds (+4.3%) and a decrease in inactivity amongst over 75's (-2.9%).

GM inacitivty by age over time

Borough Comparison

Whilst six out of ten boroughs in Greater Manchester have a smaller inactivity age gap (the difference in inactivity amongst over 75s and 16 to 34 year olds) than England (26.6%) two boroughs (Manchester and Tameside) have considerably larger gaps. Although there is insufficient data in Oldham and Trafford to compare to baseline, all but Tameside of the other boroughs have seen a large narrowing of the gap (from 19.1% in Bolton to 4.5% in Stockport).

GM inactivity age gap by borough

 

More information on the latest Active Lives release can be found here. Find out more about the relationship between age and physical activity here.

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Published April 2022