Photo: Ronald Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0People in Windsor live longer than across England: 80.4 for men and 84.7 for women
Across England the figures for 2019 to 2023 are 79.1 and 83.0. Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 77.9 in Clewer Village to 84.4 in Spital & Cranbourne Park, 0.5 miles apart. Windsor grades B for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #21 of 30 in Berkshire.
What stands out about health in Windsor
A 7-year gap from one part of Windsor to another
Men in Spital & Cranbourne Park can expect to live to 84.4, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Clewer Village, 0.5 miles away, the figure is 77.9, and Clewer New Town records 111 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 79.6 in Clewer New Town to 89.2 in Spital & Cranbourne Park. Neighbourhoods ↓
Patients rate Windsor’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 80% of patients at Windsor’s 3 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 65% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 51% of English towns. GP practices ↓
Written from the OHID, NHS England and GP Patient Survey figures on this page. Life expectancy covers 2019 to 2023; neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas of about 8,000 people.
Windsor grades B for health
Healthier than 65% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: emergency admissions and preventable deaths (better than 25% and 40% of UK towns). What lifts it: disability (95%) and Census bad health (86%). Among the 245 UK towns of 22,000 to 43,000 people, Windsor’s Health Grade is the 44th highest.
Each measure is ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, the ranks are averaged, and the average is ranked again. Every measure allows for the town’s ages: life expectancy is worked out from the death rate at each age, so it doesn’t depend on how old the town’s residents are; deaths and admissions are counted against what England’s rates would give a town with these ages, and the Census answers against England and Wales’s rates by single year of age, so a seaside town of retired people isn’t marked down for being old.
Men’s life expectancy across Windsor runs from 77.9 to 84.4
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Windsor’s 5 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation closely: Clewer New Town, where 20% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 78.7. Clewer New Town has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (111 per 100 expected), against 43 in Spital & Cranbourne Park.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spital & Cranbourne Park | 84.4 | 89.2 | 43 | 86 | 11% | 7% |
| Windsor Town & Eton | 82.2 | 87.7 | 71 | 84 | 21% | 6.9% |
| Dedworth | 80.4 | 85.6 | 82 | 95 | 21% | 12% |
| Clewer New Town | 78.7 | 79.6 | 111 | 118 | 21% | 20% |
| Clewer Village | 77.9 | 84.9 | 100 | 102 | 17% | 12% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Clewer Village’s men’s life expectancy is 77.9 with a 95% range of 75.8 to 80.1. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Windsor; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
80% of patients rate Windsor’s 3 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 79th of 202 English towns of 22,000 to 43,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheet Street Surgery SL4 1BZ · 7,704 adult patients | 90% good · range 83%–95% | 77% | 84% | Good2024 |
| Clarence Medical Centre SL4 5AS · 12,942 adult patients | 78% good · range 57%–91% | 58% | 72% | Good2019 |
| Dr Jabbar & Partners SL4 3EW · 6,857 adult patients | 71% good · range 62%–78% | 65% | 83% | Good2016 |
Sheet Street Surgery has the town’s highest rating (90%). You can register with any practice whose area covers your address.
GP Patient Survey 2026: surveys sent January to March 2026; results weighted by NHS England. The range is the 95% confidence interval. Adult patients: the survey’s practice population aged 16 and over. A practice counts as in Windsor when its main surgery is inside the built-up area; branch surgeries are part of their main practice. CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
Men’s life expectancy in Windsor is 0.7 years below what its level of deprivation predicts
Across 1,996 English towns of 2,500 or more, men’s life expectancy tracks income deprivation closely (correlation −0.81). Each dot is a town.
13% of Windsor’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 81.1 years for men; Windsor’s is 80.4. For women it predicts 84.7, and Windsor’s 84.7 is close to it.
Income deprivation: share of residents in low-income households, English Indices of Deprivation 2025, averaged over each town’s neighbourhoods. A town above or below the line isn’t necessarily doing better or worse on care: students, prisons and hostels inside a boundary all shift the figures.
Care in and near Windsor
The nearest A&E, the practice patients rate highest, and where to go when it’s urgent but not an emergency. In an emergency, call 999.
Frimley Health saw 61% of major-A&E patients within four hours
Type 1 (major) A&E attendances seen, admitted or discharged within four hours of arrival, by month. NHS England publishes it by trust, not hospital: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Wexham Park Hospital, the nearest to Windsor (4.5 mi).
The share seen within four hours rose from an average of 59% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 62% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 61% of trusts: 7,059 patients in 12 months, 9% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Wexham Park Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2025), the hospital overall outstanding (2025).
South East trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.8 mi | King Edward VII Hospital Windsor · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 0.8 mi | Prince Charles Eye Unit, King Edward VII Hospital Windsor · Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 4.5 mi | Wexham Park Hospital A&E Slough · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Outstanding2025 | Good2025 |
| 5.2 mi | Heatherwood Hospital Ascot · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Good2019 | — |
| 5.3 mi | Heatherwood Hospital Ascot · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 5.8 mi | St Marks Hospital Maidenhead · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 7.3 mi | Ashford Hospital Ashford · Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2022 | — |
| 8.1 mi | The Hillingdon Hospital A&E Uxbridge · The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2026 |
NHS acute hospitals registered with the Care Quality Commission (care directory, 01 October 2026). “A&E” marks a major (type 1) emergency department, open 24 hours and led by consultants, in NHS England’s Emergency Care Data Set; a hospital without the mark may still have a minor injury unit or urgent treatment centre. Ratings run Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate; the year is when each was published. Distances are straight lines from the town centre.
84% of adults in the Thames Valley area who tried got an NHS dental appointment
Adults who tried to get an NHS dental appointment for themselves in the last two years, and got one. GP Patient Survey 2026, by integrated care system (the NHS area that plans dentistry for Windsor).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Thames Valley patients who did, 75% rated the experience good (England 74%). NHS practices taking new patients are listed on the NHS website’s Find a dentist; for urgent dental pain, call NHS 111.
The survey asks GP patients about dentistry, so results are published for health areas, not towns or practices.
87% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 59 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Windsor | Berkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 87% | 87% | 82% |
| Fair health | 9.6% | 10% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3.1% | 3.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 12% | 13% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 4.6% | 4.8% | 7.4% |
Berkshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Windsor’s Health Grade is 44th of 245 UK towns of 22,000 to 43,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Windsor, and others in Berkshire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harpenden Hertfordshire | 30,964 | 83.0 / 86.8 | 58 | A+ |
| 2 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 83.3 / 85.7 | 58 | A+ |
| 3 | Ascot Berkshire | 24,003 | 83.1 / 84.6 | 63 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Caversham Berkshire | 33,038 | 82.1 / 86.1 | 69 | A |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Woodley Berkshire | 28,019 | 81.3 / 84.7 | 82 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 42 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 81.2 / 84.9 | 78 | B+ |
| 43 | Rayleigh Essex | 32,383 | 80.9 / 83.8 | 80 | B+ |
| 44 | Windsor Berkshire | 31,569 | 80.4 / 84.7 | 84 | B |
| 45 | Hitchin Hertfordshire | 35,220 | 80.8 / 83.8 | 83 | B |
| 46 | Caterham Surrey | 22,757 | 80.3 / 84.3 | 80 | B |
| … | |||||
| 245 | Clydebank West Dunbartonshire | 26,220 | 72.3 / 78.5 | — | D− |
Health letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only. Welsh towns are graded on life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and the two Census measures: OHID’s early-death, admissions and child-obesity figures cover England.
Health in the places around Windsor
Life expectancy for men / women, and the nearest A&E. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | People | Life expectancy | Nearest A&E | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | 31,569 | 80.4 / 84.7 | 4.5 mi | B |
| Eton Wick | 2,121 | 82.2 / 87.7 | 3.6 mi | A− |
| Eton | 2,461 | 82.2 / 87.7 | 3.1 mi | A |
| Datchet | 4,807 | 80.4 / 84.3 | 3.3 mi | B− |
| Slough | 166,868 | 77.8 / 82.4 | 1.7 mi | C− |
| Old Windsor and Wraysbury | 7,689 | 82.1 / 86.5 | 5.1 mi | A− |
| Colnbrook | 1,898 | 77.5 / 82.1 | 3.9 mi | C− |
| Winkfield Row | 1,756 | 82.1 / 88.3 | 7.7 mi | A |
Colnbrook, 4.6 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 77.5, 2.9 years shorter than Windsor’s.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A&E figures are for the trust. NHS England publishes four-hour waits by trust, not hospital, so Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust’s figures cover every major A&E it runs. They count type 1 (major) departments; minor injury units and urgent treatment centres are left out, which is why they sit below the all-types figure NHS England headlines (75% for England).
- The GP survey is a survey. About 100 patients answer for each practice, so a practice’s figure has a range (shown in the table); small differences between practices aren’t meaningful. The town figure weights each practice by its adult patients, some of whom live outside Windsor.
- Adjusted for age. A ratio of 100 means as many deaths, admissions or reports of bad health as England’s rates (England and Wales’s for the Census) would give a town with these ages; 120 means a fifth more.
- Small areas, summed to the town. OHID publishes these figures for middle-layer areas of about 8,000 people; the town’s figure averages the areas it covers, weighted by how many of their residents live in it, so a village shares its area’s figure with the countryside around it.
- Different years. Life expectancy and deaths cover 2019 to 2023; emergency admissions 2016/17 to 2020/21 (the latest OHID publishes for small areas, including the pandemic dip); child obesity the three school years to 2024/25; A&E the 12 months to September 2026; the GP Patient Survey early 2026; CQC ratings were published on different dates, shown in each row.
- Distances are straight lines. Miles are measured from the town’s centre to each site; the road is longer. For an emergency, call 999; for urgent advice, call NHS 111.
Questions about health in Windsor
How healthy is Windsor?
Windsor earns a B for health, healthier than 65% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 44th of 245 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 80.4 for men and 84.7 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 84 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Windsor have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Spital & Cranbourne Park (84.4), Windsor Town & Eton (82.2) and Dedworth (80.4); the shortest is Clewer Village (77.9). For women, Spital & Cranbourne Park is highest (89.2) and Clewer New Town lowest (79.6). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Wexham Park Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 61% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 63%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Windsor?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 84% of adults in the Thames Valley area who tried to get an NHS dental appointment in the last two years got one, against 82% across England. Practices taking new NHS patients are listed on the NHS website’s Find a dentist service.
Which GP practice in Windsor do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Sheet Street Surgery (90% good overall), Clarence Medical Centre (78% good overall) and Dr Jabbar & Partners (71% good overall). Across all 3 Windsor practices, 80% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Windsor?
80.4 years for men and 84.7 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 69.7 of those years and women 71.8 in good health.
CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
Sources: OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (life expectancy and deaths 2019–23, emergency admissions 2016/17–2020/21, NCMP 2022/23–2024/25); House of Commons Library MSOA names · ONS health state life expectancy for small areas (MSOAs), England and Wales, 2019 to 2023 (healthy life expectancy) · ONS Census 2021 general health and disability, adjusted for age · Care Quality Commission care directory and latest ratings, 01 October 2026 · NHS Organisation Data Service · GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos) · NHS England, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions (monthly, by trust) and Emergency Care Data Set activity by site, June–September 2026 (type 1 A&Es) · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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