London

Vale Farm sports ground, Harrow

Life expectancy
A child born today in Kensington & Chelsea is likely to live almost seven years longer than one born just six miles away, in Tower Hamlets. A boy born in Kensington & Chelsea can reasonably expect to survive to the age of 80.8, a girl to 85.8. The corresponding figures for Tower Hamlets are 73.9 and 79.2.

While none of the London statistics at the bottom end of the table are as bad as those as those in Scotland where the average life expectancy in parts of Glasgow is less than 73 years, they reflect a gap which some researchers claim is at its widest since Victorian times.
The answer, as with many health indicators, is down to income: according to a survey published in the British Medical Journal in 2005, ‘The poorest 10 per cent in society now receive 3 per cent of the nation’s total income, whereas the richest tenth obtain more than a quarter.’
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Average life expectancy at birth

(Source: July 2003 figures for life expectancy at birth, averaged between males and females, Office of National Statistics)