Deprivation map — IMD 2025

The Deprivation layer shades all 33,755 English neighbourhoods by their decile on the official Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 — red for the most deprived tenth of the country, blue for the least.

What the map shows

Each neighbourhood (2021 census LSOA) is ranked from 1 to 33,755 by the Index of Multiple Deprivation and grouped into deciles: decile 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, decile 10 the least deprived. A picker in the legend switches the shading between the overall index and each of its seven domains — income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing & services, and living environment — and tapping an area shows all of its deciles at once.

What the index measures

The IMD combines seven domains — income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing & services, and living environment — into one relative measure, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. It is the standard measure used across government and research.

Coverage and caveats

England only — Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separate indices on different frameworks that cannot be compared directly. The index is relative: it ranks areas against each other rather than measuring wealth or poverty in pounds, and a whole area’s score says nothing certain about any one household.