Photo: Ann Cook · CC BY-SA 2.0Life expectancy in Chorley trails the figure across England: 76.3 for men and 81.5 for women
For 2019 to 2023, England’s figures are 79.1 and 83.0. Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 73.2 in Chorley East to 78.5 in Chorley West, 1.1 miles apart. Chorley grades D for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #47 of 65 in Lancashire.
What stands out about health in Chorley
A 5-year gap from one part of Chorley to another
Men in Chorley West can expect to live to 78.5. In Chorley East, 1.1 miles away, the figure is 73.2, and Chorley East records 159 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 78.7 in Chorley East to 83.2 in Chorley West. Neighbourhoods ↓
Patients rate Chorley’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 82% of patients at Chorley’s 5 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 60% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 59% of English towns. GP practices ↓
Men live shorter lives than Chorley’s level of deprivation would suggest
25% of Chorley’s residents are income-deprived. Across England’s towns that predicts men’s life expectancy of 78.5; Chorley’s is 76.3. For its circumstances ↓
More of Chorley’s children are obese
24% 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 82% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
More A&E patients are seen within four hours than across England
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the A&E at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, saw 65% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 34th of 117 trusts. 13% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
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.
Chorley grades D for health
Healthier than 15% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
Behind the typical UK town on every measure. Even its strongest, Census bad health and disability, are in the bottom 25% of UK towns; preventable deaths and deaths under 75 are furthest behind. Among the 205 UK towns of 28,000 to 53,000 people, Chorley’s Health Grade is the 131st 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 Chorley runs from 73.2 to 78.5
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Chorley’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: Chorley East, where 31% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 73.2. Chorley East has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (159 per 100 expected), against 97 in Chorley West.
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| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley West | 78.5 | 83.2 | 97 | 105 | 18% | 17% |
| Chorley North | 77.1 | 81.0 | 106 | 111 | 23% | 24% |
| Chorley Town & South | 76.9 | 82.8 | 129 | 109 | 26% | 24% |
| Chorley South West | 76.0 | 81.3 | 131 | 115 | 24% | 27% |
| Chorley East | 73.2 | 78.7 | 159 | 119 | 26% | 31% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Chorley East’s men’s life expectancy is 73.2 with a 95% range of 71.1 to 75.4. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Chorley; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
82% of patients rate Chorley’s 5 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 45th of 166 English towns of 28,000 to 53,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr R Baghdjian & Dr Marcus Jacobs Surgery PR7 2TH · 4,518 adult patients | 97% good · range 91%–99% | 87% | 78% | Good2017 |
| Regent House Surgery PR7 2DH · 6,328 adult patients | 88% good · range 79%–93% | 68% | 74% | Good2016 |
| Library House Surgery PR7 2AD · 13,716 adult patients | 82% good · range 57%–94% | 49% | 66% | Good2023 |
| The Surgery Chorley PR7 1HR · 7,609 adult patients | 77% good · range 64%–86% | 58% | 58% | Requires improvement2024 |
| The Chorley Surgery PR7 2EJ · 7,942 adult patients | 72% good · range 59%–82% | 58% | 67% | Good2022 |
Dr R Baghdjian & Dr Marcus Jacobs Surgery has the town’s highest rating (97%). 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 Chorley 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 Chorley is 2.2 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.
25% of Chorley’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 78.5 years for men; Chorley’s is 76.3. For women it predicts 82.5, and Chorley’s 81.5 is 1.0 years below.
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.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals saw 65% 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: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, the nearest to Chorley (1.1 mi).
The share seen within four hours rose from an average of 63% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 67% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are close to the typical trust’s: 4,894 patients in 12 months, 13% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Chorley and South Ribble Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2023), the hospital overall requires improvement (2023).
North West trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 mi | Chorley and South Ribble Hospital A&E Chorley · Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2023 | Good2023 |
| 5.4 mi | Wrightington Hospital Wigan · Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Good2020 | — |
| 6.4 mi | Royal Albert Edward Infirmary A&E Wigan · Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2026 |
| 9 mi | Royal Blackburn Hospital A&E Blackburn · East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | Good2019 | Requires improvement2019 |
| 10 mi | Royal Preston Hospital A&E Preston · Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2023 | Requires improvement2023 |
| 10 mi | Royal Preston Hospital Preston · Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 11 mi | Royal Bolton Hospital A&E Bolton · Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | Good2023 | Good2019 |
| 11 mi | Leigh Infirmary Leigh · Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Good2020 | — |
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.
Care in and near Chorley
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.
83% of adults in the Lancashire and South Cumbria 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 Chorley).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Lancashire and South Cumbria 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.
80% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 112 report bad health for every 100 expected, more than the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Chorley | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 80% | 82% |
| Fair health | 14% | 14% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6% | 6.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 20% | 20% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 9% | 9.1% | 7.4% |
Lancashire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Chorley’s Health Grade is 131st of 205 UK towns of 28,000 to 53,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Chorley, and others in Lancashire. 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 | Wokingham Berkshire | 50,320 | 82.7 / 86.1 | 67 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 60 | Lytham St Anne's Lancashire | 42,693 | 79.3 / 83.8 | 94 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 99 | Bamber Bridge Lancashire | 40,359 | 79.3 / 82.0 | 106 | C |
| … | |||||
| 101 | Fulwood Lancashire | 34,693 | 79.0 / 82.1 | 112 | C |
| … | |||||
| 129 | Newark-on-Trent Nottinghamshire | 29,755 | 76.4 / 81.2 | 128 | C− |
| 130 | Ilkeston Derbyshire | 38,723 | 77.5 / 80.8 | 119 | D |
| 131 | Chorley Lancashire | 39,539 | 76.3 / 81.5 | 125 | D |
| 132 | Oldbury West Midlands | 45,188 | 77.5 / 82.5 | 115 | D |
| 133 | Worksop Nottinghamshire | 43,435 | 77.9 / 81.5 | 124 | D |
| … | |||||
| 205 | Wishaw North Lanarkshire | 30,190 | 72.6 / 77.9 | — | 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 Chorley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley | 39,539 | 76.3 / 81.5 | 1.1 mi | D |
| Charnock Richard | 1,098 | 82.3 / 84.5 | 2.4 mi | B |
| Euxton | 17,519 | 80.0 / 84.0 | 1.5 mi | B− |
| Coppull | 8,303 | 77.5 / 80.0 | 3.1 mi | C− |
| Whittle-le-Woods | 4,388 | 81.5 / 84.0 | 1.4 mi | B+ |
| Adlington | 8,777 | 78.9 / 83.7 | 3.8 mi | C+ |
| Brinscall | 1,332 | 80.9 / 84.4 | 3.2 mi | A− |
| Eccleston | 4,543 | 82.3 / 84.5 | 3.8 mi | B+ |
Charnock Richard, 1.8 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 82.3, 6.0 years longer than Chorley’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 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals 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 Chorley.
- 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 Chorley
How healthy is Chorley?
Chorley earns a D for health, healthier than 15% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 131st of 205 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 76.3 for men and 81.5 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 125 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Chorley have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Chorley West (78.5), Chorley North (77.1) and Chorley Town & South (76.9); the shortest is Chorley East (73.2). For women, Chorley West is highest (83.2) and Chorley East lowest (78.7). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 65% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 68%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Chorley?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 83% of adults in the Lancashire and South Cumbria 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 Chorley do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Dr R Baghdjian & Dr Marcus Jacobs Surgery (97% good overall), Regent House Surgery (88% good overall) and Library House Surgery (82% good overall). Across all 5 Chorley practices, 82% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Chorley?
76.3 years for men and 81.5 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 62.2 of those years and women 64.3 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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