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About the Urban Health Index 2025

8 July 2025

Read more about the renewed Urban Health Index, how you might use it, and what the data tells us about health in Lambeth and Southwark.

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What is the Urban Health Index?

The Urban Health Index (UHI) is a Social Progress Index developed by Impact on Urban Health for the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark.

It captures data on 54 indicators across 48 wards, helping us to understand the social and environmental factors shaping the health and wellbeing of the population living in these areas.

Updates to the Index

Key updates from the previous UHI include:

  • Updating indicators with the latest available data, including integrating council-held datasets for the first time
  • Replacing datasets that have been discontinued with new sources
  • Added a number of new housing indicators to strengthen our understanding of the link between housing and health
  • Creating a new interactive dashboard that breaks down the scorecard by dimension and allows indicators to be compared

Some of the above changes means that the updated UHI is not fully comparable to previous versions. However, where it is available, time series data has been included in the dashboard to allow users to see how indicators have changed over the last three years.

Who is the Index for?

The UHI can be used by anyone who wants to understand more about the social and environmental factors that influence health in Lambeth and Southwark.

For example, I am:

What can the UHI tell us?

The UHI can be used for:

  • Providing a starting point to explore specific social or environmental factors that influence health
  • Help you determine priorities by ward
  • Designing targeted place-based interventions

What the UHI cannot tell us:

  • The reasons why some areas score higher or lower for specific elements of the Index
  • Information beyond the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. The ranking is relative to wards within the boroughs
  • Data about a geographic area smaller than a ward. These usually represent a population of approximately 5,500 – so there could be specific issues happening on a smaller scale that won’t show up in the Index.

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Urban Health Index 2025

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What the updated Urban Health Index can tell us about health inequality

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