Editing South West England (section)

===Health===
The population in the region with the highest obesity level is [[Sedgemoor]] in Somerset, with 73.4%, the fifth in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baker |first=Carl |date=2021 |title=House of Commons Library: Briefing paper number 3336, 12 January 2021: Obesity statistics |url=https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/37120/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=dera.ioe.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> North Dorset has the lowest proportion of cancer deaths in England – 97 per 100,000 (the England average is 142 per 100,000), down from 162 ten years earlier.{{when|date=January 2024}}

In the 2011 census, East Dorset had the highest rate of marriage in the UK; East Dorset also has the third-highest life expectancy for men in the UK at 82.7.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}