A tool created by Swirrl and powered by Linked Open Data from opendatacommunities.org on behalf of MHCLG, as part of the Indices of Deprivation 2019 data release. The postcode lookup tool lets you enter up to 10,000 postcodes to get the deprivation data you want in a choice of an Excel or CSV[…]
Read More »These Index of Multiple Deprivation maps have been produced by Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. There is one map for each of England’s 317 local authority areas.
Read More »A lava lamp poster visualisation by Open Data Manchester which measures deprivation in English Local Authorities against political control of the area.
Read More »These dashboards were developed at an event co-hosted by Concentra and Tableau with public sector professionals collaborating to put these dashboards together.
Read More »An interactive map by Head of Data Visualisation at ONS Rob Fry, which includes domain breakdowns for each area.
Read More »This paper looks at relative levels of deprivation across parliamentary constituencies in England, including which constituencies have become more deprived or less deprived relative to other areas. Estimates have been calculated by the House of Commons Library using data published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)[…]
Read More »Trafford data lab visualises the English Indices of Deprivation 2019 for Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in England, by Local Authority. Including a breakdown across each domain.
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Mapping selected datasets from CDRC Data, part of the Consumer Data Research Centre. Use these interactive maps to explore the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 at LSOA level.
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A quick piece here on an excellent dataviz created by University of Manchester researchers. Dr Kingsley Purdam and his team mapped female and male life expectancy and IMD deciles across different areas of Greater Manchester to Metrolink tram stops. The result demonstrates striking disparities over relatively short distances – for example between[…]
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This study models the development of the 2011 London riots and interaction between police and rioters through ‘probability of arrest’ which alters depending on ratios of police to rioters at a scene. The authors use deprivation as part of spatial analysis to shed light on why some areas were more affected[…]
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This open access journal article from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health provides a nice in-depth look at the history and development of UK multiple deprivation measures as well as some of the IMD’s advantages, disadvantages and uses in targeting social spending in the UK. The full article[…]
Read More »According to this study published in BMJ Open there is an interesting health inequality associated with deprivation and kidney disease. The research cites previous studies showing that: “people from socioeconomically deprived populations are more likely to have Chronic Kidney Disease, more likely to require dialysis, but less likely to receive a live-donor[…]
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For understandable reasons, deprivation rarely has a positive connotation, and ‘deprived’ areas may face a sort of stigma – which can become in itself another problem that people living in these areas have to deal with. So it was great to hear about this ‘Hidden Histories’ project by Reading Museum[…]
Read More »As this article in the Telegraph discusses, researchers from Cambridge devised a method to identify gentrifying areas in London, comparing social media data (twitter and foursquare) with the Indices of Deprivation. “Researchers compared half a million tweets and Foursquare check-ins across more than 40,000 London locations, with area deprivation scores. They found that less[…]
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As someone who blogs about spatial analysis and deprivation we’re big fans of Alasdair Rae‘s work over here at OCSI – here’s a list of his work previously featured on this resource. At the end of last month he put out a nice deprivation map that highlights the 10% most and[…]
Read More »A new study conducted by researchers at the University of York has found a potential association between deprivation, higher mental health needs and worse mental health outcomes. According to the summary article on the University of York’s website, deprived communities in England tend to have more mental health referrals from medical[…]
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Academic/blogger Alasdair Rae (often featured on this site) has used the data from our updated Indices of Deprivation to demonstrate the area deprivation of Premier League Football team home grounds. Overall they tend to be in relatively deprived areas – he notes that “more than half of all Premier League[…]
Read More »“Neighbourhoods where there is a strong attachment to traditional values of thrift, hard work and independence; where there is a reluctance to rely on the state; where there is a concern to do one’s best for one’s children. Is this Middle England? No, it’s a description of six disadvantaged neighbourhoods across[…]
Read More »According to this HSCIC report, rates of alcohol consumption are higher in less deprived areas than in more deprived areas. Here’s a quote from the 2012 piece: “Men and women in the least deprived areas were more likely to have drunk alcohol than those in more deprived areas. In the[…]
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Here’s another blog post from NLP consulting which looks at the rural-urban divide in deprivation. The author notes how the Indices of Deprivation focus on urban areas – there are more urban LSOAs than rural ones and they tend to rank as more deprived. Looking at England’s eight ‘Core Cities’ they point[…]
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Here’s an excellent blog post by Oliver O’Brien, a researcher at UCL Department of Geography. He has published a few different maps on the CDRC maps platform (a mapping tool which features deprivation as well as consumer and retail datasets) showing overall multiple deprivation as well as changes in multiple deprivation and[…]
Read More »As we have previously blogged, Alasdair Rae has provided access to an Indices of Deprivation 2015 shapefile, plus a map for every local authority in England. The shapefile was created by joining the original data from the Department of Communities and Local Government to a generalised LSOA boundary file sourced[…]
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This Deprivation and Road Safety report for TFL’s London Road Safety Unit, by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looks at the association between deprivation and road traffic injury in London. They claim to have found a strong deprivation relationship, in particular for adult cyclists and adult[…]
Read More »Produced by Open Data Communities, this dataset contains a range of measures which summarise the Indices of Deprivation 2015 at local authority district level. This dataset contains multidimensional statistical data (a data cube) which can be viewed as a spreadsheet cross-referencing two dimensions at a time. You can use the drop-down[…]
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The official research report looked at relative shifts in deprivation (link here), comparing indices from 2004 through to 2015. This analysis, from the blog for planning consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners, focuses on significant differences between 2010 and 2015 indices. It looks at the national picture and also analyses relative changes[…]
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UK Data Service Census Support have visualised the Indices of Deprivation 2015 using Google Fusion Tables.
Read More »Chapter 5 of the recently released official research report for IMD 2015 looks at changes in relative deprivation between different versions of the indices. The report notes that overall 58% of LSOAs did not change decile and that this was more pronounced at the extreme ends of the distribution where there[…]
Read More »Gerrard Koessl, Research Officer at National Housing Federation has written a blog post looking at Deprivation in England and the impact on housing.
Read More »Put together by Alasdair Rae, this page provides access to an Indices of Deprivation 2015 shapefile, plus a map for every local authority in England. The shapefile was created by joining the original data from the Department of Communities and Local Government to a generalised LSOA boundary file sourced from[…]
Read More »Here’s a micro-study of Coalfield Regeneration in South Yorkshire by Julie Hanks & Paul Hanks, who use Indices of Deprivation data to analyse change over time in coalfield areas.
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