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Five questions about the health of people in work, answered for every place in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Public statistics describe residents, or people who have already left work. Almost nothing describes the health of the 2.7 million people still in work. This page shows what is published today, and what the Living Better at Work data trust would add.

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Which data?
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Who is about to fall out of work because of ill health?

Who is asking: Mayors (the 80% employment ambition and Get Britain Working plans), NHS areas (keeping people in work is now a health outcome), and councils (local employment support).

How many people have already left work because of ill health?

Published figure for the whole region only
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No figure for this question is published for individual places, so every area on the map looks the same. Switch to “With the trust” to see the map filled in.
What is published today · real data

How many people have already left work because of ill health?

7.3%

of working-age people are out of work because of long-term sickness

This is the share of working-age people in the region who are not working and not looking for work because of long-term sickness. It is the third highest of the nine English regions, and it is only published for the region as a whole.

In 2025, 2.4% of working hours in the region were lost to sickness absence, the highest rate in the UK.

Source: Health for Wealth 2025 · ONS, Sickness absence 2025

What is missing

Both figures count people after the problem has happened. Nothing published shows who is still in work but heading the same way.

What the trust would add

The alliance asks employees directly, every year, about their health and their work. Switch to “With the trust” to see this question answered for every postcode district, council, mayoral authority and NHS area.

About this demonstration

Every figure in the “With the trust” view is made up for this demonstration. It comes from a simulated alliance of 52 employers (4 public sector, the rest private and voluntary, matching the region’s mix of industries) and about 100,000 employees across all 15 councils. It was built with the same questionnaire, scoring and costing used in each employer’s own report, so it behaves like real data. It does not describe any real employer, place or person. Employees’ home postcodes and the deprivation of their neighbourhoods are simulated; the postcode district shapes on the map are real.

To protect individuals, no figure is shown where fewer than 10 people answered, and no employer is ever shown on its own. Results are adjusted so each council counts in proportion to the number of people who work there. Figures in the “Today” view are real and linked to their sources.

Postcode district boundaries from the demo pack. Map © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap. Survey figures are synthetic.

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