Things are looking pretty grim in terms of Covid-19 in England. But there are some areas that are doing well. This page seeks to highlight local authorities that are navigating better than others through the Covid-19 second wave. Perhaps there are things we can learn from them.
See the source code is available on Github if you want to look at this and other analyses, including analyses of the Covid-19 case data in England in areas that aren’t doing so well. The data on this page is from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/downloads/csv/coronavirus-cases_latest.csv and reports “lab-confirmed positive COVID-19 PCR test on or up to the specimen date”. The specimen date is the date that someone had the test taken. The government site has more details about the meaning of case numbers.
These awards are based on data updated on November 28 but the awards will be based on data since November 23 because it can take a number of days to process the test and to report the result.
The figures we’re going to give awards for are based on a rolling seven day average of figures from the previous week.
When we compare local authorities, we need to bear in mind that different local authorities have different sizes. A small absolute number of cases in a large local authority is a greater achievement than that number of cases in a smaller local authority, because it means a smaller percentage of the population are affected.
So we need to calculate infection rates. To do that, we’re using population data from the ONS and calculating rates per 100,000 people.
The following are the awards across the whole of England.
This set of awards is going to the areas that had the lowest average daily rates of cases per 100,000 population on November 23. These are:
Arguably a better way of awarding local authority areas is by how much they are improving. This set of awards go to those places that have improved the most over in the week up to November 23. These are:
Our final set of awards go to those places that have improved the most since their 2nd wave peak. These are:
I’m also splitting local authorities into five different categories based on the Indices of Deprivation from 2019, which provide a measure of how deprived areas are, and giving awards within these categories.
Barking and Dagenham | Barnsley | Barrow-in-Furness | Birmingham | Blackburn with Darwen | Blackpool | Bolton | Bradford | Burnley | County Durham | Doncaster | East Lindsey | Gateshead | Great Yarmouth | Hackney and City of London | Halton | Haringey | Hartlepool | Hastings | Hyndburn | Islington | Kingston upon Hull, City of | Knowsley | Leeds | Leicester | Lewisham | Lincoln | Liverpool | Manchester | Mansfield | Middlesbrough | Newcastle upon Tyne | Newham | North East Lincolnshire | Norwich | Nottingham | Oldham | Pendle | Peterborough | Portsmouth | Preston | Redcar and Cleveland | Rochdale | Rotherham | Salford | Sandwell | Sefton | Sheffield | South Tyneside | Southampton | St. Helens | Stoke-on-Trent | Sunderland | Swale | Tameside | Tendring | Thanet | Torbay | Tower Hamlets | Wakefield | Walsall | Wirral | Wolverhampton
This set of awards is going to go to the areas that had the lowest average daily rates of cases per 100,000 population on November 23. These are:
Arguably a better way of awarding local authority areas is by how much they are improving. This set of awards go to those places that have improved the most over in the week up to November 23. These are:
Our final set of awards go to those places that have improved the most since their 2nd wave peak. These are:
Allerdale | Ashfield | Basildon | Bassetlaw | Bolsover | Boston | Brent | Bristol, City of | Bury | Calderdale | Carlisle | Chesterfield | Copeland | Corby | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | Coventry | Croydon | Darlington | Derby | Dover | Dudley | Ealing | Eastbourne | Enfield | Fenland | Folkestone and Hythe | Gloucester | Gravesham | Greenwich | Hammersmith and Fulham | Harlow | Havant | Hounslow | Ipswich | Isle of Wight | Kensington and Chelsea | King’s Lynn and West Norfolk | Kirklees | Lambeth | Lancaster | Luton | Medway | North Lincolnshire | North Norfolk | North Tyneside | Northampton | Northumberland | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Plymouth | Redditch | Rossendale | Scarborough | Sedgemoor | Slough | Southend-on-Sea | Southwark | Stockton-on-Tees | Tamworth | Telford and Wrekin | Torridge | Waltham Forest | Wellingborough | Wigan | Wyre Forest
This set of awards is going to go to the areas that had the lowest average daily rates of cases per 100,000 population on November 23. These are:
Arguably a better way of awarding local authority areas is by how much they are improving. This set of awards go to those places that have improved the most over in the week up to November 23. These are:
Our final set of awards go to those places that have improved the most since their 2nd wave peak. These are:
Adur | Amber Valley | Arun | Ashford | Barnet | Bedford | Bexley | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | Breckland | Brighton and Hove | Broxbourne | Camden | Cannock Chase | Canterbury | Castle Point | Cheshire West and Chester | Chorley | Colchester | Crawley | Dartford | East Staffordshire | East Suffolk | Eden | Erewash | Exeter | Forest of Dean | Gosport | Havering | Herefordshire, County of | Hillingdon | Kettering | Maidstone | Mendip | Mid Devon | Milton Keynes | Newark and Sherwood | Newcastle-under-Lyme | North Devon | North East Derbyshire | North Warwickshire | Oxford | Reading | Redbridge | Rother | Shropshire | Solihull | Somerset West and Taunton | South Holland | South Somerset | Stevenage | Stockport | Swindon | Thurrock | Wandsworth | Warrington | West Devon | West Lancashire | West Lindsey | West Suffolk | Westminster | Worcester | Worthing | Wyre
This set of awards is going to go to the areas that had the lowest average daily rates of cases per 100,000 population on November 23. These are:
Arguably a better way of awarding local authority areas is by how much they are improving. This set of awards go to those places that have improved the most over in the week up to November 23. These are:
Our final set of awards go to those places that have improved the most since their 2nd wave peak. These are:
Babergh | Basingstoke and Deane | Braintree | Bromley | Broxtowe | Cambridge | Central Bedfordshire | Charnwood | Chelmsford | Cheltenham | Cherwell | Cheshire East | Chichester | Craven | Dacorum | Daventry | Dorset | East Devon | East Northamptonshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | Epping Forest | Fylde | Gedling | Harrow | Hertsmere | High Peak | Hinckley and Bosworth | Huntingdonshire | Lewes | Lichfield | Maldon | Malvern Hills | Melton | Merton | Mid Suffolk | New Forest | North Somerset | North West Leicestershire | Oadby and Wigston | Rugby | Rushmoor | Ryedale | Selby | Sevenoaks | South Derbyshire | South Hams | South Kesteven | South Lakeland | South Norfolk | South Ribble | South Staffordshire | Spelthorne | Stafford | Staffordshire Moorlands | Sutton | Teignbridge | Tonbridge and Malling | Trafford | Watford | Wealden | Welwyn Hatfield | Wiltshire | Wychavon
This set of awards is going to go to the areas that had the lowest average daily rates of cases per 100,000 population on November 23. These are:
Arguably a better way of awarding local authority areas is by how much they are improving. This set of awards go to those places that have improved the most over in the week up to November 23. These are:
Our final set of awards go to those places that have improved the most since their 2nd wave peak. These are:
Aylesbury Vale | Bath and North East Somerset | Blaby | Bracknell Forest | Brentwood | Broadland | Bromsgrove | Chiltern | Cotswold | Derbyshire Dales | East Cambridgeshire | East Hampshire | East Hertfordshire | Eastleigh | Elmbridge | Epsom and Ewell | Fareham | Guildford | Hambleton | Harborough | Harrogate | Hart | Horsham | Kingston upon Thames | Mid Sussex | Mole Valley | North Hertfordshire | North Kesteven | Reigate and Banstead | Ribble Valley | Richmond upon Thames | Richmondshire | Rochford | Runnymede | Rushcliffe | Rutland | South Bucks | South Cambridgeshire | South Gloucestershire | South Northamptonshire | South Oxfordshire | St Albans | Stratford-on-Avon | Stroud | Surrey Heath | Tandridge | Test Valley | Tewkesbury | Three Rivers | Tunbridge Wells | Uttlesford | Vale of White Horse | Warwick | Waverley | West Berkshire | West Oxfordshire | Winchester | Windsor and Maidenhead | Woking | Wokingham | Wycombe | York
This set of awards is going to go to the areas that had the lowest average daily rates of cases per 100,000 population on November 23. These are:
Arguably a better way of awarding local authority areas is by how much they are improving. This set of awards go to those places that have improved the most over in the week up to November 23. These are:
Our final set of awards go to those places that have improved the most since their 2nd wave peak. These are: