Women in Bridgnorth and men in south Shropshire have the longest life expectancy of anywhere in the county, according to new figures.
But women in north Shropshire and men in Shrewsbury and Atcham are not so lucky.
They are expected to die the youngest, while the outlook for north Shropshire men is not too rosy as they are given just an extra four months on their male counterparts in Shrewsbury.
The annual number of deaths in the county is also rising in the long-term, data produced by the Office for National Statistics shows.
Experts say this may reflect the baby boomers of the First World War reaching ages of 70 or over and the baby boomers of the Second World War reaching retirement age.
Shropshire also has an age structure weighted towards the older age groups, which may explain the rise in the number of deaths.
According to the statistics, which have been interpreted by Shropshire County Council’s sustainability group, a female born between 2005 and 2007 in Bridgnorth can expect to live for 83 years and two months.
But a female born just miles away in north Shropshire is expected to die a year earlier. Men in Shrewsbury have the lowest life expectancy for their gender in Shropshire, at 77 years and eight months. North Shropshire men are the second lowest at 78 years.
The picture is slightly better for males in south Shropshire who can expect to live until 80 years and 1 month - the 20th best in the country based on 374 local authority areas in England and Wales.
However, all of the figures still place all Shropshire folk among the top half in the country for those expected to live the longest.
A spokeswoman for the sustainability group said: “In Shropshire women are predicted to live longer than men. Life expectancy at birth in 2005 to 2007 in Shropshire is 78.4 years for men and 82.7 years for women; ranked within 41 counties, Shropshire’s male life expectancy at birth is ranked 20th and female life expectancy ranked 16.”
She said life expectancy at birth in 2005 to 2007 in the UK was 77.3 years for males and 81.5 years for females.
By Russell Roberts
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Surviving the first year of life is the most important stage in living a long life and there’s a wide variation in the infant mortality rates in Shropshire’s 139 electoral wards which need examination by all readers of the Shropshire Star.
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oh come on shropshire star, dont you have anything better to do, your stories are rubbish, It doesnt matter where you live, everyone is different, what if you moved to bridgnorth from say ironbridge, where the power station is! you gonna live a long time even tho you shair braincells with a power station. What if you was born in 2007 and then get hit by a bus 20yrs later, stop with these annoying stupid childish stories, no onecares if they will die tomorrow at the age of 100.when your dead, your dead. Im 19, I could live upto 200, doesnt mean to say im gonna post a story in the worlds stupidiest paper.
and our council taxes pay for some geek to tell us that “oh your not going to live long cus you live in dawley, but dont worry, your going to live forever cus you live in bridgnorth”.
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Mr J, for a lad of 19 your spelling and grammar are appalling.
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I dont give a c*** Mark, its called slang, use it or loose it.
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I think you meant ‘lose’ it there, sunshine
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Anywon els uze bad laguage and i swere i’l do time
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Baby boomers of WW1 would be reaching 80 not 70. War babies of WW2 would be reaching 70, and baby boomers of WW2 60.
What we do know about these generations is that they likely read and write better English than the present generation - in spite of the hardships, war and grinding poverty that so many lived through.
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The obituary page of the Shropshire Star shows that too many people are dying before reaching 65 years of age.
Hasn’t anyone in Shropshire wondered why people in parts of Powys and Ceredigion live active and healthy lives for so long?
What about the Italians in the old Olivio adverts where octogenarians were playing football and generally messing about like teenagers?
In Puglia, the air is very clean and the residents very healthy. A doctor will visit some villages once a month to see if anyone is ill and when he finds nobody sick, which is most visits, he has a game of football instead. Not much of that in the UK is there?
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