Photo: Mike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0Lives in Basildon are shorter than across England: 77.4 for men and 81.5 for women
Across England the figures for 2019 to 2023 are 79.1 and 83.0. Inside the city, men’s life expectancy runs from 75.0 in Chalvedon to 81.0 in Langdon Hills, 3.8 miles apart. Basildon grades D for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #77 of 81 in Essex.
What stands out about health in Basildon
A 6-year gap from one part of Basildon to another
Men in Langdon Hills can expect to live to 81.0, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Chalvedon, 3.8 miles away, the figure is 75.0, and Chalvedon records 164 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 78.0 in Chalvedon to 83.9 in Lee Chapel South & Kingswood. Neighbourhoods ↓
More of Basildon’s children are obese
25% of Year 6 children (aged 10 to 11) were measured as obese over the last three school years, against 22.3% across England; more than in 88% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
Patients rate Basildon’s GP practices below England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 73% of patients at Basildon’s 18 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 50% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is behind 75% 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.
Basildon grades D for health
Healthier than 14% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
Behind the typical UK town on every measure. Even its strongest, disability and Census bad health, are in the bottom 30% of UK towns; emergency admissions and deaths under 75 are furthest behind. Among the 65 UK towns of 81,000 to 157,000 people, Basildon’s Health Grade is the 39th 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 Basildon runs from 75.0 to 81.0
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Basildon’s 13 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation closely: Chalvedon, where 51% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 75.0. Chalvedon has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (164 per 100 expected), against 56 in Langdon Hills.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langdon Hills | 81.0 | 83.6 | 56 | 121 | 14% | 12% |
| Steeple View & Noak Bridge | 79.7 | 82.6 | 87 | 128 | 22% | 24% |
| Lee Chapel South & Kingswood | 79.5 | 83.9 | 99 | 114 | 25% | 19% |
| Laindon West & Southfields | 78.5 | 82.2 | 111 | 127 | 21% | 26% |
| Whitmore Way & Fremnells | 78.2 | 81.1 | 99 | 113 | 25% | 29% |
| Laindon East & Lee Chapel North | 77.9 | 81.8 | 108 | 132 | 22% | 29% |
| Eversley | 76.3 | 80.8 | 151 | 136 | 27% | 38% |
| Laindon Central | 76.1 | 79.8 | 140 | 136 | 30% | 40% |
| Basildon Central & Pipps Hill | 76.0 | 79.7 | 138 | 130 | 27% | 38% |
| Vange & Pitsea | 75.7 | 82.7 | 140 | 127 | 30% | 32% |
| Felmore & Bowers Gifford | 75.5 | 79.3 | 139 | 138 | 26% | 31% |
| Barstable | 75.1 | 82.7 | 134 | 138 | 30% | 47% |
| Chalvedon | 75.0 | 78.0 | 164 | 149 | 29% | 51% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Chalvedon’s men’s life expectancy is 75.0 with a 95% range of 73.1 to 76.8. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Basildon; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
73% of patients rate Basildon’s 18 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 45th of 62 English towns of 81,000 to 157,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Sims & Partners SS13 3HQ · 9,331 adult patients | 90% good · range 76%–96% | 68% | 82% | Good2016 |
| Dr GC Chajed's Practice SS16 5AD · 8,095 adult patients | 84% good · range 73%–91% | 68% | 73% | Good2017 |
| Laindon Medical Group SS15 5TR · 14,872 adult patients | 81% good · range 57%–93% | 26% | 69% | Good2016 |
| Aryan Medical Centre SS13 1PN · 3,460 adult patients | 80% good · range 75%–84% | 70% | 93% | Not rated |
| Ballards Walk Surgery SS15 5HL · 9,754 adult patients | 79% good · range 64%–89% | 72% | 86% | Good2016 |
| Dr Tony Nasah SS13 3HQ · 3,004 adult patients | 77% good · range 73%–81% | 57% | 73% | Good2017 |
| Dr Salako and Partners SS16 6SA · 11,424 adult patients | 77% good · range 58%–89% | 46% | 78% | Good2016 |
| Rose Villa Surgery SS13 3DW · 3,407 adult patients | 74% good · range 70%–78% | 70% | 69% | Good2023 |
| Dr Joseph Arayomi SS13 3HQ · 1,930 adult patients | 73% good · range 69%–76% | 68% | 70% | Good2020 |
| Matching Green Surgery SS14 2PB · 2,767 adult patients | 73% good · range 68%–77% | 60% | 73% | Good2024 |
| Knights Surgery SS15 5LE · 2,787 adult patients | 70% good · range 66%–73% | 49% | 59% | Good2016 |
| Felmores Medical Centre SS13 1PN · 5,249 adult patients | 68% good · range 60%–74% | 59% | 65% | Good2016 |
| The Knares Medical Practice SS16 5SB · 6,123 adult patients | 67% good · range 56%–76% | 24% | 70% | Good2018 |
| Clayhill Medical Practice SS16 4HD · 4,188 adult patients | 63% good · range 53%–72% | 73% | 72% | Not rated |
| Noakbridge Medical Centre SS15 4EZ · 2,729 adult patients | 58% good · range 53%–62% | 48% | 65% | Good2025 |
| Aegis Medical Centre SS14 2ER · 3,726 adult patients | 56% good · range 50%–62% | 41% | 62% | Requires improvement2023 |
| Fryerns Medical Centre SS14 3SS · 4,122 adult patients | 55% good · range 49%–61% | 40% | 59% | Good2017 |
| Dr M Aslam's Practice SS13 1AJ · 5,965 adult patients | 44% good · range 35%–52% | 18% | 51% | Good2022 |
Dr Sims & Partners has the city’s highest rating (90%). Laindon Medical Group is by far the largest, with 14,872 adult patients. 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 Basildon 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 Basildon 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.
32% of Basildon’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 77.0 years for men; Basildon’s is 77.4. For women it predicts 81.2, and Basildon’s 81.5 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 Basildon
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.
Mid and South Essex saw 63% 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: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Basildon University Hospital, the nearest to Basildon (1.2 mi).
The share seen within four hours slipped from an average of 70% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 65% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are close to the typical trust’s: 12,053 patients in 12 months, 11% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Basildon University Hospital: urgent and emergency services inadequate (2025), the hospital overall inadequate (2025).
East of England trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 mi | Basildon University Hospital A&E Basildon · Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Inadequate2025 | Inadequate2025 |
| 6 mi | Orsett Hospital Grays · Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 7.5 mi | Thurrock Community Hospital Grays · North East London NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 9.8 mi | Southend University Hospital A&E Westcliff On Sea · Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Not rated |
| 12 mi | Queen's Hospital A&E Romford · Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Requires improvement2023 |
| 13 mi | Darent Valley Hospital A&E Dartford · Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust | Good2022 | Good2022 |
| 14 mi | Medway Maritime Hospital A&E Gillingham · Medway NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Requires improvement2025 |
| 14 mi | Broomfield Hospital A&E Chelmsford · Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2025 | 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.
85% of adults in the Essex 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 Basildon).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Essex patients who did, 79% 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 residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Basildon’s residents are younger than Essex’s (14% are 65 or over, against 20%), which accounts for much of the difference. Adjusted for age, 124 report bad health for every 100 expected, more than the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Basildon | Essex | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 81% | 83% | 82% |
| Fair health | 13% | 12% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.8% | 4.8% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 8.1% | 6.9% | 7.4% |
Essex and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Basildon’s Health Grade is 39th of 65 UK towns of 81,000 to 157,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Basildon, and others in Essex. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kensington and Chelsea London | 143,348 | 81.5 / 86.2 | 72 | B+ |
| 2 | Cambridge Cambridgeshire | 152,742 | 81.1 / 85.4 | 79 | B+ |
| 3 | Bath Somerset | 94,080 | 80.2 / 84.5 | 84 | B |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Chelmsford Essex | 110,612 | 80.4 / 83.9 | 90 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Colchester Essex | 130,259 | 78.3 / 82.6 | 103 | C |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Harlow Essex | 93,570 | 78.7 / 82.4 | 104 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Stockport Greater Manchester | 117,925 | 77.1 / 81.6 | 127 | D |
| 38 | Telford Shropshire | 156,890 | 77.6 / 81.8 | 118 | D |
| 39 | Basildon Essex | 115,935 | 77.4 / 81.5 | 119 | D |
| 40 | Hastings East Sussex | 91,497 | 77.1 / 81.4 | 129 | D |
| 41 | Huddersfield West Yorkshire | 141,683 | 77.1 / 80.8 | 130 | D |
| … | |||||
| 65 | Oldham Greater Manchester | 110,722 | 74.0 / 78.2 | 166 | 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 Basildon
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basildon | 115,935 | 77.4 / 81.5 | 1.2 mi | D |
| Crays Hill | 1,218 | 81.5 / 85.4 | 3.1 mi | B+ |
| North Benfleet | 1,765 | 75.7 / 79.6 | 3.7 mi | D |
| Wickford | 27,533 | 80.9 / 85.0 | 4.8 mi | B |
| Stanford-le-Hope | 29,527 | 80.1 / 83.7 | 2.5 mi | C+ |
| Billericay | 34,068 | 82.9 / 86.5 | 5.1 mi | A |
| Runwell | 8,086 | 81.2 / 82.5 | 5.4 mi | C+ |
| Horndon on the Hill | 1,510 | 81.8 / 83.9 | 3.1 mi | B+ |
Billericay, 4.2 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 82.9, 5.5 years longer than Basildon’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 Mid and South Essex 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 Basildon.
- 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 Basildon
How healthy is Basildon?
Basildon earns a D for health, healthier than 14% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 39th of 65 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 77.4 for men and 81.5 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 119 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Basildon have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Langdon Hills (81.0), Steeple View & Noak Bridge (79.7) and Lee Chapel South & Kingswood (79.5); the shortest is Chalvedon (75.0). For women, Lee Chapel South & Kingswood is highest (83.9) and Chalvedon lowest (78.0). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Basildon University Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 63% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 62%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Basildon?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 85% of adults in the Essex 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 Basildon do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Dr Sims & Partners (90% good overall), Dr GC Chajed's Practice (84% good overall) and Laindon Medical Group (81% good overall). Across all 18 Basildon practices, 73% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Basildon?
77.4 years for men and 81.5 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 62.3 of those years and women 63.1 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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