Health and wellbeing

Life expectancy along Coventry bus route number 7

• Life expectancy along Coventry bus route number 7 (PDF)

The life expectancy at birth of the average person in Coventry is 76.8 years for males and 81.6 years for females. However, this masks significant health inequalities across the city.

Coventry bus route number 7 runs between Brownshill Green in the north-west and Bell Green in the north-east of the city. It crosses some of the city's most affluent areas, as well as some of the most deprived areas.

The graphic above sets out the bus route (in black) across the city; and the base map sets out the neighbourhoods (known as MSOAs) of Coventry. The colours represents the average life expectancy at birth of residents in each of Coventry’s neighbourhood areas (MSOA) in 2016-2020.

On the graphic, the height of each bus stop represents the average life expectancy at birth of residents in each area in 2016-2020. Life expectancy serves as a useful summary measure of mortality, as it quantifies the differences between areas in the years of life lived; and therefore, illustrates the stark health inequalities across the city. It shows that, along the number 7 bus route, people living in Henley Green (near the bus stop by the old White Horse pub) have the lowest life expectancy at 73.5 years for males and 79.0 years for females, and people living in Allesley Green have the highest life expectancy at 80.4 years for males and 86.6 years for females.