Photo: Bill Boaden · CC BY-SA 2.0Across Royal Sutton Coldfield, life expectancy spans 10 years from one area to another
Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 75.2 in Chester Road to 85.3 in Little Sutton & Roughley, 3.3 miles apart. Life expectancy is 81.5 for men and 84.5 for women. Across England the figures for 2019 to 2023 are 79.1 and 83.0. Royal Sutton Coldfield grades B for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #6 of 35 in West Midlands.
What stands out about health in Royal Sutton Coldfield
A 10-year gap from one part of Royal Sutton Coldfield to another
Men in Little Sutton & Roughley can expect to live to 85.3, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Chester Road, 3.3 miles away, the figure is 75.2, and Chester Road records 140 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 80.9 in Chester Road to 87.5 in Rectory Park & New Hall Valley. Neighbourhoods ↓
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.
Royal Sutton Coldfield grades B for health
Healthier than 57% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: emergency admissions and deaths under 75 (better than 13% and 48% of UK towns). What lifts it: disability (72%) and men’s life expectancy (70%). Among the 84 UK towns of 65,000 to 126,000 people, Royal Sutton Coldfield’s Health Grade is the 6th 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield runs from 75.2 to 85.3
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Royal Sutton Coldfield’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 less closely inside Royal Sutton Coldfield than across England. Chester Road has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (140 per 100 expected), against 66 in Little Sutton & Roughley.
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| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Sutton & Roughley | 85.3 | 86.9 | 66 | 95 | 9.9% | 7% |
| New Oscott | 84.6 | 85.8 | 69 | 102 | 16% | 12% |
| Wylde Green | 83.3 | 84.1 | 72 | 98 | 15% | 6.7% |
| Four Oaks | 82.3 | 87.0 | 78 | 108 | 18% | 11% |
| Rectory Park & New Hall Valley | 82.2 | 87.5 | 71 | 105 | 19% | 10% |
| Walmley | 82.0 | 83.0 | 81 | 109 | 19% | 7.6% |
| Kingstanding North | 81.5 | 87.0 | 70 | 109 | 26% | 13% |
| Sutton Coldfield North & Park | 81.5 | 83.7 | 67 | 97 | 16% | 6.9% |
| Hill Hook | 80.6 | 83.8 | 82 | 107 | 14% | 14% |
| Minworth | 80.4 | 85.4 | 85 | 120 | 22% | 11% |
| Reddicap Heath | 80.0 | 82.3 | 104 | 146 | 23% | 27% |
| Sutton Coldfield South & Central | 79.0 | 82.3 | 91 | 111 | 14% | 12% |
| Chester Road | 75.2 | 80.9 | 140 | 137 | 21% | 20% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Chester Road’s men’s life expectancy is 75.2 with a 95% range of 73.7 to 76.8. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Royal Sutton Coldfield; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
Men’s life expectancy in Royal Sutton Coldfield 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.
12% of Royal Sutton Coldfield’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 81.2 years for men; Royal Sutton Coldfield’s is 81.5. For women it predicts 84.7, and Royal Sutton Coldfield’s 84.5 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield
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.
University Hospitals Birmingham saw 59% 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: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Good Hope Hospital, the nearest to Royal Sutton Coldfield (0.7 mi).
The share seen within four hours has held near 59% over 18 months. Long waits for a bed are commoner than at 71% of trusts: 24,063 patients in 12 months, 19% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Good Hope Hospital: urgent and emergency services requires improvement (2025).
Midlands trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.7 mi | Good Hope Hospital A&E Sutton Coldfield · University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | Requires improvement2025 |
| 5.8 mi | Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital Tamworth · University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 5.8 mi | Birmingham Heartlands Hospital A&E Birmingham · University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | Requires improvement2025 |
| 6.2 mi | Birmingham Children's Hospital Birmingham · Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust | Good2026 | — |
| 7.2 mi | Midland Metropolitan University Hospital A&E Smethwick · Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | Not rated | Good2026 |
| 7.3 mi | Manor Hospital A&E Walsall · Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2024 |
| 8.4 mi | Samuel Johnson Community Hospital Lichfield · University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 9.1 mi | Birmingham Women's Hospital Birmingham · Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust | Good2023 | — |
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.
74% of patients rate Royal Sutton Coldfield’s 4 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 46th of 79 English towns of 65,000 to 126,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hawthorns Surgery B72 1DL · 8,814 adult patients | 81% good · range 71%–88% | 52% | 80% | Good2016 |
| OHP-The Manor Practice B72 1RL · 13,979 adult patients | 74% good · range 52%–88% | 49% | 55% | Good2020 |
| Tudor Practice B75 6DX · 42,967 adult patients | 73% good · range 42%–91% | 34% | 76% | Good2019 |
| Dr C D Lenton & Partners B76 1QN · 12,456 adult patients | 73% good · range 57%–84% | 38% | 61% | Requires improvement2024 |
The Hawthorns Surgery has the town’s highest rating (81%). Tudor Practice is by far the largest, with 42,967 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield when its main surgery is inside the built-up area; branch surgeries are part of their main practice. CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
85% of adults in the Birmingham and Solihull 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Birmingham and Solihull patients who did, 76% 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield call their health good than across West Midlands
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Royal Sutton Coldfield’s residents are older than West Midlands’ (23% are 65 or over, against 16%), which accounts for much of the difference. Adjusted for age, 77 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Royal Sutton Coldfield | West Midlands | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 80% | 82% |
| Fair health | 12% | 14% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.6% | 6% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 6.6% | 8.1% | 7.4% |
West Midlands and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Royal Sutton Coldfield’s Health Grade is 6th of 84 UK towns of 65,000 to 126,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Royal Sutton Coldfield, and others in West Midlands. 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+ |
| 4 | Woking Surrey | 75,655 | 80.6 / 84.2 | 87 | B |
| 5 | Bath Somerset | 94,080 | 80.2 / 84.5 | 84 | B |
| 6 | Royal Sutton Coldfield West Midlands | 93,392 | 81.5 / 84.5 | 83 | B |
| 7 | Solihull West Midlands | 107,754 | 81.0 / 84.7 | 80 | B |
| 8 | Chelmsford Essex | 110,612 | 80.4 / 83.9 | 90 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 65 | Walsall West Midlands | 70,777 | 76.5 / 81.6 | 132 | D |
| 66 | West Bromwich West Midlands | 103,099 | 76.0 / 81.1 | 140 | D |
| … | |||||
| 84 | 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Sutton Coldfield | 93,392 | 81.5 / 84.5 | 0.7 mi | B |
| Streetly | 16,790 | 82.0 / 86.2 | 3.2 mi | A− |
| Pheasey | 9,498 | 80.8 / 85.3 | 4.1 mi | B− |
| Curdworth | 1,146 | 81.2 / 84.2 | 4 mi | B |
| Aldridge | 15,827 | 79.0 / 84.9 | 3.7 mi | C+ |
| Water Orton | 3,484 | 78.7 / 83.6 | 4.7 mi | C+ |
| Shenstone | 2,196 | 81.8 / 83.4 | 5.1 mi | B+ |
| Stonnall | 1,340 | 81.8 / 83.4 | 5.5 mi | B+ |
Water Orton, 5.1 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 78.7, 2.8 years shorter than Royal Sutton Coldfield’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 University Hospitals Birmingham 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield.
- 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield
How healthy is Royal Sutton Coldfield?
Royal Sutton Coldfield earns a B for health, healthier than 57% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 6th of 84 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 81.5 for men and 84.5 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 83 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Royal Sutton Coldfield have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Little Sutton & Roughley (85.3), New Oscott (84.6) and Wylde Green (83.3); the shortest is Chester Road (75.2). For women, Rectory Park & New Hall Valley is highest (87.5) and Chester Road lowest (80.9). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Good Hope Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 59% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 57%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 85% of adults in the Birmingham and Solihull 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, The Hawthorns Surgery (81% good overall), OHP-The Manor Practice (74% good overall) and Tudor Practice (73% good overall). Across all 4 Royal Sutton Coldfield practices, 74% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
81.5 years for men and 84.5 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 68.8 of those years and women 69.7 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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