Photo: ITookSomePhotos · CC BY-SA 4.0Life expectancy in Weymouth is 79.4 for men and 83.6 for women
Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 75.0 in Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell to 81.7 in Preston & Lodmoor, 1.7 miles apart. For 2019 to 2023, England’s figures are 79.1 and 83.0. Weymouth grades C for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #27 of 30 in Dorset.
What stands out about health in Weymouth
A 7-year gap from one part of Weymouth to another
Men in Preston & Lodmoor can expect to live to 81.7, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell, 1.7 miles away, the figure is 75.0, and Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell records 149 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 81.0 in Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell to 85.6 in Preston & Lodmoor. Neighbourhoods ↓
NHS dentists are harder to get than in most of England
Of adults in the Dorset area who tried to get an NHS dental appointment in the last two years, 75% succeeded, 5th lowest of England’s 36 health areas; across England it was 82%. Dentists ↓
Patients rate Weymouth’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 81% of patients at Weymouth’s 4 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 68% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 58% 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.
Weymouth grades C for health
Healthier than 31% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
Behind the typical UK town on every measure. Even its strongest, women’s life expectancy and child obesity, are in the bottom 50% of UK towns; men’s years in good health and deaths under 75 are furthest behind. Among the 139 UK towns of 39,000 to 75,000 people, Weymouth’s Health Grade is the 40th 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 Weymouth runs from 75.0 to 81.7
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Weymouth’s 7 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation closely: Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell, where 32% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 75.0. Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (149 per 100 expected), against 64 in Preston & Lodmoor.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preston & Lodmoor | 81.7 | 85.6 | 64 | 75 | 16% | 9.1% |
| Weymouth West | 81.6 | 82.4 | 77 | 89 | 24% | 20% |
| Broadwey & Littlemoor | 80.9 | 83.3 | 101 | 107 | 27% | 30% |
| Westham North & Radipole | 80.5 | 84.4 | 98 | 94 | 16% | 20% |
| Wyke Regis | 79.7 | 85.6 | 79 | 93 | 23% | 19% |
| Westham South | 77.2 | 82.9 | 117 | 103 | 18% | 26% |
| Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell | 75.0 | 81.0 | 149 | 107 | 23% | 32% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell’s men’s life expectancy is 75.0 with a 95% range of 73.1 to 76.9. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Weymouth; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
75% of adults in the Dorset 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 Weymouth).
Dorset has the 5th lowest of England’s 36 health areas; across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Dorset patients who did, 66% 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.
81% of patients rate Weymouth’s 4 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 27th of 116 English towns of 39,000 to 75,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bridges Medical Practice DT4 7DW · 14,316 adult patients | 94% good · range 81%–98% | 85% | 69% | Good2023 |
| Royal Crescent Surgery DT4 7BY · 23,071 adult patients | 89% good · range 71%–97% | 71% | 69% | Outstanding2023 |
| Cross Road Surgery DT4 9QX · 6,996 adult patients | 73% good · range 67%–79% | 65% | 47% | Good2023 |
| Wyke Regis and Lanehouse Medical Practice DT4 9BE · 10,473 adult patients | 53% good · range 41%–64% | 42% | 51% | Requires improvement2025 |
The Bridges Medical Practice has the town’s highest rating (94%). 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 Weymouth 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 Weymouth is about 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.
22% of Weymouth’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 79.0 years for men; Weymouth’s is 79.4. For women it predicts 82.9, and Weymouth’s 83.6 is 0.7 years above.
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 Weymouth
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.
Dorset County Hospital saw 60% 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: Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Dorset County Hospital, the nearest to Weymouth (6.6 mi).
The share seen within four hours slipped from an average of 68% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 57% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 77% of trusts: 826 patients in 12 months, 3.5% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Dorset County Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2026), the hospital overall good (2026).
South West trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.6 mi | Westhaven Hospital Weymouth · Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 0.7 mi | Weymouth Community Hospital Weymouth · Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 0.7 mi | Weymouth Community Hospital Weymouth · Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 6.6 mi | Dorset County Hospital A&E Dorchester · Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Good2026 | Good2026 |
| 16 mi | Bridport Community Hospital Bridport · Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 22 mi | Swanage Community Hospital Swanage · Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 23 mi | Poole Hospital A&E Poole · University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | Good2016 |
| 23 mi | Yeatman Hospital Sherborne · Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
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.
Fewer people in Weymouth call their health good than across Dorset
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 97 report bad health for every 100 expected, close to the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Weymouth | Dorset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 81% | 82% |
| Fair health | 16% | 14% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.3% | 5.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 23% | 19% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 9.4% | 7.8% | 7.4% |
Dorset and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Weymouth’s Health Grade is 40th of 139 UK towns of 39,000 to 75,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Weymouth, and others in Dorset. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wokingham Berkshire | 50,320 | 82.7 / 86.1 | 67 | A+ |
| 2 | West Molesey Surrey | 47,144 | 82.5 / 86.3 | 63 | A |
| 3 | Bishop's Stortford Hertfordshire | 40,916 | 81.9 / 85.4 | 68 | A |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Christchurch Dorset | 48,973 | 80.8 / 84.9 | 79 | B |
| … | |||||
| 38 | Bognor Regis West Sussex | 68,443 | 78.6 / 83.7 | 109 | C |
| 39 | Dartford Kent | 69,131 | 78.2 / 83.1 | 98 | C |
| 40 | Weymouth Dorset | 55,540 | 79.4 / 83.6 | 99 | C |
| 41 | Durham County Durham | 50,502 | 78.2 / 82.3 | 103 | C |
| 42 | Carlton Nottinghamshire | 53,555 | 79.0 / 82.7 | 98 | C |
| … | |||||
| 139 | Greenock Inverclyde | 42,870 | 73.5 / 78.2 | — | 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 Weymouth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weymouth | 55,540 | 79.4 / 83.6 | 6.6 mi | C |
| Chickerell | 3,973 | 81.5 / 85.6 | 6.7 mi | B− |
| Fortuneswell | 4,554 | 79.7 / 82.7 | 10 mi | C− |
| Grove | 1,032 | 79.7 / 82.7 | 11 mi | C− |
| Weston | 5,208 | 79.5 / 84.0 | 12 mi | C |
| Southwell | 1,700 | 79.4 / 84.2 | 13 mi | C+ |
| Dorchester | 21,358 | 79.7 / 83.8 | 0.3 mi | C+ |
| Charminster | 1,732 | 81.6 / 85.4 | 1.6 mi | B+ |
Charminster, 8 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 81.6, 2.2 years longer than Weymouth’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 Dorset County Hospital 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 Weymouth.
- 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 Weymouth
How healthy is Weymouth?
Weymouth earns a C for health, healthier than 31% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 40th of 139 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 79.4 for men and 83.6 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 99 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Weymouth have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Preston & Lodmoor (81.7), Weymouth West (81.6) and Broadwey & Littlemoor (80.9); the shortest is Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell (75.0). For women, Preston & Lodmoor is highest (85.6) and Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis & Rodwell lowest (81.0). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Dorset County Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 60% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 61%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Weymouth?
It is harder than in most of England. In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 75% of adults in the Dorset 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 Weymouth do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, The Bridges Medical Practice (94% good overall), Royal Crescent Surgery (89% good overall) and Cross Road Surgery (73% good overall). Across all 4 Weymouth practices, 81% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Weymouth?
79.4 years for men and 83.6 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 64.4 of those years and women 66.2 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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