GeraMind / Active Life Score / South West
Most Active Areas in the South West
Across 29 local authorities, an average of 68.7% of adults were physically active in November 2024–November 2025. The most active area is Exeter (76.8% active). Real Sport England Active Lives data.
How active are adults in the South West?
Across the 29 local authorities in the South West, an average of 68.7% of adults were physically active (150+ minutes/week) and 20.7% were inactive (<30 minutes/week) in November 2024–November 2025, per Sport England Active Lives data published April 2026. The most active area is Exeter (76.8% active); the least active is Forest of Dean (63.0% active). These are unweighted averages across the region's local authorities.
| Metric | South West (mean across 29 LAs) | England average |
|---|---|---|
| Active (150+ min/week) | 68.7% | 64.5% |
| Fairly active (30–149 min/week) | 10.3% | 10.7% |
| Inactive (<30 min/week) | 20.7% | 24.7% |
| Gera Active Life Score (GALS) | 70 / 100 | 56 / 100 |
Every South West local authority, ranked (November 2024–November 2025)
| # | Local Authority | Active % | Inactive % | GALS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bath and North East Somerset | 75.2% | 14.4% | 93 |
| 2 | Exeter | 76.8% | 14.7% | 93 |
| 3 | Bristol, City of | 73.8% | 15.5% | 89 |
| 4 | Cotswold | 72.0% | 16.5% | 84 |
| 5 | Teignbridge | 71.8% | 19.3% | 77 |
| 6 | East Devon | 70.3% | 18.9% | 76 |
| 7 | Devon | 70.3% | 19.5% | 75 |
| 8 | Cheltenham | 69.4% | 19.0% | 75 |
| 9 | Dorset | 68.8% | 20.1% | 72 |
| 10 | South Gloucestershire | 68.7% | 20.3% | 71 |
| 11 | Torridge | 69.9% | 20.9% | 71 |
| 12 | West Devon | 68.4% | 20.4% | 71 |
| 13 | Somerset | 68.0% | 20.6% | 70 |
| 14 | South Hams | 68.2% | 20.5% | 70 |
| 15 | Tewkesbury | 66.4% | 19.9% | 70 |
| 16 | Wiltshire | 69.0% | 21.4% | 69 |
| 17 | Gloucestershire | 67.0% | 21.0% | 68 |
| 18 | Mid Devon | 68.5% | 21.4% | 68 |
| 19 | North Somerset | 66.5% | 21.5% | 66 |
| 20 | Plymouth | 69.0% | 22.2% | 66 |
| 21 | Stroud | 66.0% | 21.8% | 65 |
| 22 | Cornwall | 69.1% | 23.1% | 64 |
| 23 | Isles of Scilly | 70.2% | 21.6% | 62 |
| 24 | North Devon | 64.5% | 23.3% | 59 |
| 25 | Forest of Dean | 63.0% | 23.2% | 58 |
| 26 | Swindon | 65.3% | 24.5% | 57 |
| 27 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 63.5% | 24.1% | 57 |
| 28 | Gloucester | 65.2% | 24.4% | 57 |
| 29 | Torbay | 66.6% | 27.1% | 51 |
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Frequently asked questions
- Which is the most active area in the South West?
- Exeter is the most physically active local authority in the South West, with 76.8% of adults active (150+ minutes/week) in November 2024–November 2025. It scores GALS 93/100 on the Gera Active Life Score.
- Which is the least active area in the South West?
- Forest of Dean has the lowest share of active adults in the South West (63.0% active, 23.2% inactive) in November 2024–November 2025, per Sport England Active Lives data.
- How does the South West compare with the England average?
- The South West averages 68.7% active adults across its 29 local authorities, which is above the England average of 64.5% active (November 2024–November 2025). These are unweighted means across local authorities, not population-weighted regional totals.
- What is the Gera Active Life Score (GALS)?
- GALS is a 0–100 index Gera computes from real Sport England Active Lives data. For each local authority: raw = activePct − inactivePct + 0.5 × fairlyActivePct, then normalised across all 317 English LAs. Full methodology at geramind.com/methodology/active-life-score.
Other English regions
- South East — mean GALS 66/100 (67.4% active)
- London — mean GALS 60/100 (66.0% active)
- East — mean GALS 56/100 (64.0% active)
- East Midlands — mean GALS 53/100 (63.5% active)
- North West — mean GALS 48/100 (62.4% active)
- West Midlands — mean GALS 48/100 (61.7% active)
- Yorkshire — mean GALS 47/100 (62.6% active)
- North East — mean GALS 41/100 (60.6% active)
Related
- Active Life Score — all 317 English local authorities
- GALS methodology — how the score is computed
- GeraClinic — book a GP or health check across the Gera network.
- GeraHome — verified home & wellbeing services near you.
Contains public sector information published by Sport England and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Sport England — Active Lives Adult Survey (Table 3 Levels Local Authority) (November 2024–November 2025, published April 2026).