Photo: Christine Matthews · CC BY-SA 2.0Across Harrogate, life expectancy spans 10 years from one area to another
Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 74.2 in Harrogate East to 84.1 in Harrogate West & Pannal Ash, 1.7 miles apart. Life expectancy is 79.9 for men and 83.9 for women. England as a whole stood at 79.1 and 83.0 over 2019 to 2023. Harrogate grades B− for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #25 of 54 in North Yorkshire.
What stands out about health in Harrogate
A 10-year gap from one part of Harrogate to another
Men in Harrogate West & Pannal Ash can expect to live to 84.1, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Harrogate East, 1.7 miles away, the figure is 74.2, and Harrogate East records 150 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 79.9 in Harrogate East to 86.5 in Harrogate West & Pannal Ash. Neighbourhoods ↓
Patients rate Harrogate’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 84% of patients at Harrogate’s 6 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 61% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 68% of English towns. GP practices ↓
More A&E patients are seen within four hours than across England
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the A&E at Harrogate District Hospital, saw 67% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 23rd of 117 trusts. 0.9% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
Men live shorter lives than Harrogate’s level of deprivation would suggest
13% of Harrogate’s residents are income-deprived. Across England’s towns that predicts men’s life expectancy of 81.2; Harrogate’s is 79.9. For its circumstances ↓
Fewer of Harrogate’s children are obese
16% of Year 6 children (aged 10 to 11) were measured as obese over the last three school years, against 22.3% across England; fewer than in 71% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
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.
Harrogate grades B− for health
Healthier than 51% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: emergency admissions and preventable deaths (better than 26% and 32% of UK towns). What lifts it: child obesity (71%) and Census bad health (69%). Among the 101 UK towns of 53,000 to 102,000 people, Harrogate’s Health Grade is the 8th 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 Harrogate runs from 74.2 to 84.1
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Harrogate’s 9 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation closely: Harrogate East, where 24% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 74.2. Harrogate East has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (150 per 100 expected), against 56 in Harrogate West & Pannal Ash.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrogate West & Pannal Ash | 84.1 | 86.5 | 56 | 79 | 6.5% | 6.8% |
| Killinghall & Hampsthwaite | 83.2 | 85.9 | 52 | 92 | 16% | 8.8% |
| Stray | 81.9 | 85.2 | 64 | 79 | 14% | 6.9% |
| Hookstone | 81.5 | 85.6 | 81 | 90 | 9.8% | 7.2% |
| Saltergate | 80.0 | 85.3 | 88 | 109 | 24% | 18% |
| Central Harrogate | 80.0 | 83.9 | 95 | 96 | 17% | 11% |
| Bilton | 78.8 | 83.5 | 90 | 93 | 20% | 12% |
| Starbeck | 76.8 | 80.8 | 120 | 120 | 18% | 17% |
| Harrogate East | 74.2 | 79.9 | 150 | 136 | 23% | 24% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Harrogate East’s men’s life expectancy is 74.2 with a 95% range of 72.4 to 75.9. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Harrogate; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
84% of patients rate Harrogate’s 6 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 10th of 90 English towns of 53,000 to 102,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingswood Surgery HG2 7SA · 5,673 adult patients | 90% good · range 85%–94% | 81% | 65% | Good2025 |
| The Leeds Road Practice HG2 8AY · 12,618 adult patients | 90% good · range 76%–96% | 60% | 76% | Good2017 |
| Church Avenue Medical Group HG1 4HG · 9,483 adult patients | 85% good · range 71%–93% | 76% | 73% | Good2018 |
| The Spa Surgery HG1 5AR · 11,769 adult patients | 84% good · range 72%–91% | 55% | 78% | Good2026 |
| Strayside Health HG1 5AR · 13,138 adult patients | 82% good · range 67%–92% | 63% | 73% | Good2016 |
| Moss Healthcare Harrogate HG1 5JP · 17,192 adult patients | 78% good · range 62%–88% | 51% | 66% | Good2016 |
Kingswood 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 Harrogate when its main surgery is inside the built-up area; branch surgeries are part of their main practice. CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
Harrogate and District saw 67% 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: Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Harrogate District Hospital, the nearest to Harrogate (0.8 mi).
The share seen within four hours slipped from an average of 75% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 66% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 86% of trusts: 120 patients in 12 months, 0.9% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Harrogate District Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2016), the hospital overall good (2026).
North East and Yorkshire trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.7 mi | Harrogate District Hospital A&E Harrogate · Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust | Good2026 | Good2016 |
| 8.6 mi | Wharfedale Hospital Otley · Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Good2016 | — |
| 12 mi | Chapel Allerton Hospital Leeds · Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Good2019 | — |
| 12 mi | Coronation Hospital Ilkley · Airedale NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 13 mi | St James's University Hospital A&E Leeds · Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Requires improvement2019 |
| 13 mi | Seacroft Hospital Leeds · Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 13 mi | Leeds General Infirmary A&E Leeds · Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Good2019 |
| 17 mi | Bradford Royal Infirmary A&E Bradford · Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Good2026 | 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.
Men’s life expectancy in Harrogate is 1.3 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 Harrogate’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 81.2 years for men; Harrogate’s is 79.9. For women it predicts 84.7, and Harrogate’s 83.9 is 0.8 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.
Care in and near Harrogate
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.
77% of adults in the Humber and North Yorkshire 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 Harrogate).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Humber and North Yorkshire patients who did, 71% 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.
More people in Harrogate call their health good than across North Yorkshire
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 70 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Harrogate | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 81% | 82% |
| Fair health | 12% | 13% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4% | 5.5% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 16% | 19% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 6.2% | 7.8% | 7.4% |
North Yorkshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Harrogate’s Health Grade is 8th of 101 UK towns of 53,000 to 102,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Harrogate, and others in North Yorkshire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Albans Hertfordshire | 75,544 | 80.7 / 84.6 | 79 | A− |
| 2 | Maidenhead Berkshire | 67,391 | 81.2 / 85.5 | 77 | B+ |
| 3 | Guildford Surrey | 77,870 | 81.4 / 85.5 | 78 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Bath Somerset | 94,080 | 80.2 / 84.5 | 84 | B |
| 7 | Royal Sutton Coldfield West Midlands | 93,392 | 81.5 / 84.5 | 83 | B |
| 8 | Harrogate North Yorkshire | 75,522 | 79.9 / 83.9 | 91 | B− |
| 9 | Bracknell Berkshire | 78,662 | 80.0 / 84.5 | 94 | B− |
| 10 | Farnborough Hampshire | 60,665 | 80.6 / 84.4 | 87 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 68 | Scarborough North Yorkshire | 59,505 | 76.7 / 81.5 | 126 | D |
| … | |||||
| 101 | Bootle Merseyside | 53,722 | 74.2 / 78.3 | 173 | 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 Harrogate
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrogate | 75,522 | 79.9 / 83.9 | 0.8 mi | B− |
| Killinghall | 1,476 | 83.2 / 85.9 | 2.7 mi | A |
| Pannal | 2,530 | 81.0 / 84.1 | 2.6 mi | A |
| Knaresborough | 15,781 | 80.9 / 84.5 | 2.5 mi | B |
| Hampsthwaite | 1,169 | 83.2 / 85.9 | 4 mi | A |
| Spofforth | 1,175 | 81.0 / 84.1 | 4 mi | A |
| Pool-in-Wharfedale | 1,991 | 83.3 / 86.4 | 7.6 mi | A+ |
| Wetherby | 11,711 | 82.2 / 85.8 | 6.8 mi | A− |
Pool-in-Wharfedale, 7.3 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 83.3, 3.4 years longer than Harrogate’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 Harrogate and District 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 Harrogate.
- 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 Harrogate
How healthy is Harrogate?
Harrogate earns a B− for health, healthier than 51% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 8th of 101 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 79.9 for men and 83.9 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 91 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Harrogate have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Harrogate West & Pannal Ash (84.1), Killinghall & Hampsthwaite (83.2) and Stray (81.9); the shortest is Harrogate East (74.2). For women, Harrogate West & Pannal Ash is highest (86.5) and Harrogate East lowest (79.9). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Harrogate District Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 67% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 65%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Harrogate?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 77% of adults in the Humber and North Yorkshire 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 Harrogate do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Kingswood Surgery (90% good overall), The Leeds Road Practice (90% good overall) and Church Avenue Medical Group (85% good overall). Across all 6 Harrogate practices, 84% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Harrogate?
79.9 years for men and 83.9 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 68.1 of those years and women 70.0 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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