This is where you will live the longest in Calderdale

Figures for the period 2014-16, included in his annual report by Calderdale’s Director of Public Health Paul Butcher, show there is a gap of 7.7 years average life expectancy for men between the borough’s most and least deprived wards. At 7.6 years, the gap for women was almost the same.

READ: Why campaign should target Calderdale's baby boomer boozersThere are differences even between neighbouring wards.

The Calderdale average life expectancy for men is 78.70 and for women 82.10 years, but although men and women in Calderdale are on average living longer, this is below the national average and a higher proportion of their lives are in slightly poorer health than the national average.

Ovenden ward has the lowest figure for men, at 72.90 years, and one of the recommendations in Mr Butcher’s report, Age Old Questions, which examines ageing in Calderdale and how council, health and other partners can tackle issues, is that the reasons for this should be looked into closely. Women in Ovenden ward on average might live to 77.91, also the lowest figure in the borough.

The Ovenden men’s figure is particularly of concern as it is a reduction of almost three years life expectancy on average since the last set of figures, for 2012-2014. Park and Illingworth wards have also shown small reductions.

READ: Five year wait for children's autism test in CalderdaleMr Butcher said generally life expectancy was increasing but the picture ward by ward was mixed.

“It’s important to look at the reduction of life expectancy in Ovenden and to work with primary and tertiary care providers to see why.

“It’s not statistically significant yet but is it a trend?

“Lessons from that will be applied anywhere else if they are below average,” he said.

READ: These Calderdale GP practices will now be open in the evenings and at weekendsMr Butcher said a possible reason might be, for example, people not going to see their GP. If patterns emerged, health services could learn from it.

It was known that eating healthily, not smoking and environmental air quality impacted on health but carrying out the report’s recommendations would reveal if there was anything different.

Here is the average life expectancy for men in each Calderdale ward

Ryburn, 83.80

Calder, 81.74;

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe, 81.35;

Greetland and Stainland, 81.08

Warley, 81.01

Luddenden Foot, 80.17

Northowram and Shelf, 79.77

Skircoat, 79.72

Brighouse, 79.40;

Rastrick, 78.54

Sowerby Bridge, 78.45

Elland, 78.04;

Todmorden, 77.90

Town, 77.23

Illingworth, 77.05;

Park, 74.23

Ovenden, 72.90;

And the life expectancy for women in each ward is:

Northowram and Shelf, 89.03

Calder, 85.75

Ryburn, 85.20

Skircoat, 83.82

Sowerby Bridge, 83.72

Elland, 83.34

Brighouse, 83.26;

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe, 83.14

Luddenden Foot, 83.13

Greetland and Stainland, 82.63;

Warley, 82.59

Town, 82.07;

Illingworth, 81.34;

Rastrick, 80.97

Todmorden, 80.18

Park, 78.76

Ovenden, 77.91;