Photo: Mr Eugene Birchall · CC BY-SA 2.0Life expectancy in Yeovil is 79.4 for men and 83.2 for women
Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 74.9 in Yeovil Town to 82.7 in Yeovil South, 1.6 miles apart. England as a whole stood at 79.1 and 83.0 over 2019 to 2023. Yeovil grades C for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #43 of 49 in Somerset.
What stands out about health in Yeovil
NHS dentists are harder to get than in most of England
Of adults in the Somerset area who tried to get an NHS dental appointment in the last two years, 65% succeeded, 2nd lowest of England’s 36 health areas; across England it was 82%. Dentists ↓
An 8-year gap from one part of Yeovil to another
Men in Yeovil South can expect to live to 82.7, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Yeovil Town, 1.6 miles away, the figure is 74.9, and Yeovil Town records 145 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 79.9 in Yeovil Milford Park to 87.7 in Yeovil South. Neighbourhoods ↓
A&E waits run longer than England’s, but fewer patients wait 12 hours for a bed
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the A&E at Yeovil District Hospital, saw 51% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 97th of 117 trusts. 3.9% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
Patients rate Yeovil’s GP practices below England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 67% of patients at Yeovil’s 4 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 47% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is behind 89% of English towns. GP practices ↓
More of Yeovil’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 ↓
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.
Yeovil grades C for health
Healthier than 28% 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 40% of UK towns; emergency admissions and child obesity are furthest behind. Among the 153 UK towns of 35,000 to 68,000 people, Yeovil’s Health Grade is the 59th 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.
65% of adults in the Somerset 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 Yeovil).
Somerset has the 2nd lowest of England’s 36 health areas; across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Somerset patients who did, 59% 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.
Men’s life expectancy across Yeovil runs from 74.9 to 82.7
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Yeovil’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: Yeovil Milford Park, where 32% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 79.4. Yeovil Town has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (145 per 100 expected), against 57 in Yeovil South.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeovil South | 82.7 | 87.7 | 57 | 100 | 16% | 9.6% |
| Yeovil Lufton & Hollands | 81.6 | 83.1 | 66 | 113 | 21% | 13% |
| Yeovil North East | 80.9 | 85.9 | 72 | 119 | 22% | 18% |
| Yeovil Milford Park | 79.4 | 79.9 | 120 | 154 | 27% | 32% |
| Yeovil Preston Plucknett | 78.9 | 81.5 | 108 | 141 | 22% | 19% |
| Yeovil Larkhill | 76.8 | 81.5 | 131 | 134 | 26% | 27% |
| Yeovil Town | 74.9 | 82.6 | 145 | 155 | 30% | 26% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Yeovil Town’s men’s life expectancy is 74.9 with a 95% range of 72.9 to 76.9. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Yeovil; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
Somerset saw 51% 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: Somerset NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Yeovil District Hospital, the nearest to Yeovil (0.2 mi).
The share seen within four hours slipped from an average of 56% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 52% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 75% of trusts: 1,465 patients in 12 months, 3.9% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Yeovil District Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2019).
South West trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2 mi | Yeovil District Hospital A&E Yeovil · Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | Good2019 |
| 5.2 mi | Yeatman Hospital Sherborne · Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 5.2 mi | Yeatman Hospital Sherborne · Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 15 mi | Bridport Community Hospital Bridport · Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 18 mi | Dorset County Hospital A&E Dorchester · Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Good2026 | Good2026 |
| 19 mi | Axminster Hospital Axminster · Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 20 mi | Bridgwater Community Hospital Bridgwater · Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 21 mi | Musgrove Park Hospital A&E Taunton · Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Good2017 |
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.
67% of patients rate Yeovil’s 4 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Hill Surgery BA20 1SB · 8,640 adult patients | 74% good · range 58%–86% | 49% | 76% | Good2016 |
| Preston Grove Medical Centre - Yeovil BA20 2BQ · 12,619 adult patients | 74% good · range 53%–87% | 53% | 63% | Good2017 |
| Hendford Lodge Medical Centre BA20 1UJ · 11,091 adult patients | 70% good · range 52%–83% | 39% | 70% | Good2025 |
| Oaklands Surgery BA21 5RL · 8,511 adult patients | 49% good · range 34%–63% | 45% | 29% | Good2019 |
Penn Hill Surgery has the town’s highest rating (74%). 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 Yeovil 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 Yeovil 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.
21% of Yeovil’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 79.4 years for men; Yeovil’s is 79.4. For women it predicts 83.2, and Yeovil’s 83.2 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 Yeovil
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.
82% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 94 report bad health for every 100 expected, close to the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Yeovil | Somerset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 82% | 82% |
| Fair health | 13% | 13% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5% | 5.1% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 7.2% | 7.3% | 7.4% |
Somerset and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Yeovil’s Health Grade is 59th of 153 UK towns of 35,000 to 68,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Yeovil, and others in Somerset. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 83.3 / 85.7 | 58 | A+ |
| 2 | Wokingham Berkshire | 50,320 | 82.7 / 86.1 | 67 | A+ |
| 3 | West Molesey Surrey | 47,144 | 82.5 / 86.3 | 63 | A |
| … | |||||
| 53 | Taunton Somerset | 61,667 | 78.8 / 83.9 | 101 | C |
| … | |||||
| 57 | Sittingbourne Kent | 54,385 | 78.8 / 82.0 | 104 | C |
| 58 | Bebington Merseyside | 57,607 | 79.0 / 82.7 | 107 | C |
| 59 | Yeovil Somerset | 50,170 | 79.4 / 83.2 | 99 | C |
| 60 | Braintree Essex | 43,179 | 78.7 / 81.9 | 108 | C |
| 61 | Banbury Oxfordshire | 52,041 | 78.9 / 82.5 | 106 | C |
| … | |||||
| 90 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 77.9 / 81.8 | 115 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 153 | 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 Yeovil
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeovil | 50,170 | 79.4 / 83.2 | 0.2 mi | C |
| Barwick and Stoford | 1,095 | 81.5 / 89.0 | 2 mi | B− |
| Ilchester | 2,062 | 81.5 / 84.2 | 4.8 mi | B |
| Stoke sub Hamdon | 1,360 | 80.9 / 85.4 | 5.1 mi | B |
| Sherborne | 10,359 | 79.3 / 83.9 | 4.9 mi | B− |
| Martock | 4,079 | 79.6 / 82.6 | 6.1 mi | C+ |
| Merriott | 2,068 | 80.9 / 85.4 | 7.3 mi | B |
| South Petherton | 3,096 | 82.0 / 85.5 | 7.6 mi | B |
South Petherton, 7.4 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 82.0, 2.6 years longer than Yeovil’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 Somerset 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 Yeovil.
- 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 Yeovil
How healthy is Yeovil?
Yeovil earns a C for health, healthier than 28% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 59th of 153 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 79.4 for men and 83.2 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 99 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Yeovil have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Yeovil South (82.7), Yeovil Lufton & Hollands (81.6) and Yeovil North East (80.9); the shortest is Yeovil Town (74.9). For women, Yeovil South is highest (87.7) and Yeovil Milford Park lowest (79.9). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Yeovil District Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 51% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 52%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Yeovil?
It is harder than in most of England. In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 65% of adults in the Somerset 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 Yeovil do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Penn Hill Surgery (74% good overall), Preston Grove Medical Centre - Yeovil (74% good overall) and Hendford Lodge Medical Centre (70% good overall). Across all 4 Yeovil practices, 67% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Yeovil?
79.4 years for men and 83.2 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 65.3 of those years and women 66.1 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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