Leeds Observatory has put out an interesting deprivation map. The map is quite interactive in its display options – users can highlight LSOAs from different deciles, and information about selected areas is displayed in a box on the right, showing its England IMD rank and allowing you to zoom in to its map location.[…]
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Oxford city council has published both summary findings and a detailed report on the updated deprivation statistics. The report notes that although the majority of Oxford LSOAs are in the least deprived half of the 2015 Indices there is still a “significant proportion” of areas in the most deprived 30% nationally[…]
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[…]
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Public Health England has an excellent open data tool in its Health Profiles which hold a huge amount of health and socioeconomic statistics available at different levels in England. You can use the tool to create interactive maps, charts and tables, compare or benchmark areas against each other, generate pdf document[…]
Read More »STREAM is a local information system for North Yorkshire and York (STatistics REsearch And Mapping) and they have recently updated with Indices of Deprivation 2015 data. The site is free for anyone to use and has a wealth of statistics available, with service information such as schools as well as[…]
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Renaisi, a London-based social enterprise, have written this interesting blog post on shifts in relative deprivation in the City Fringe, comparing shifts in this area from IMD 2004-2015 and arguing that “a core of people are being left behind” by gentrification.
Read More »Norfolk County’s online data resource Norfolk Insight has been updated with the 2015 Indices. What is interesting about this site is the area profile tool which lets visitors to the site create a simple deprivation report for different areas within Norfolk – at CCG level, local authority district and LSOA.
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Here’s a deprivation report from Manchester city council looking at changes in the city relative to the 2010 Indices of Deprivation. The report notes that: “Manchester has been ranked as first in the rank of the proportion of LSOAs that are in the most deprived 10% nationally in the Health[…]
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The Coventry Telegraph has run a few stories featuring the newly updated Indices of Deprivation. Coverage focuses on an LSOA in Coventry which is the most deprived area in the Midlands and 8th most deprived in England. The site also has reactions to the news from members of the public and a[…]
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DataRich, a public data and analysis site for Richmond-upon-Thames, published this briefing note using the updated Indices statistics. The short report is an interesting example of how areas like Richmond-upon-Thames that are relatively less deprived than most can still make use of the Indices by identifying local changes in relative deprivation or[…]
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Hertfordshire LIS (Local Information System) created this handy data visualisation to summarise the area profile with the release of the 2015 Indices. It’s a useful example of the different types of visualisation that can be used to explain the indices and illustrate findings:
Read More »The Cumbria Intelligence Observatory has published their analysis of Indices of Deprivation 2015 and what it means for Cumbria. Some headline stats: Cumbria ranks 86th nationally for overall deprivation (out of 152 upper tier local authorities, where 1 is the most deprived) Cumbria falls within the 57th percentile nationally for[…]
Read More »Oxford City Council have published their reaction to the new Indices of Deprivation figures The figures show that: Part of The Leys (Oxford 018B) and Rose Hill (Oxford 016E) are in the 10 per cent most deprived areas in the country. Other areas of Rose Hill (Oxford 016F) and The[…]
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When new Indices are released authorities often commission reports to analyse and publish the findings – a quick google reveals dozens of councils with their own ‘deprivation reports’ from 2010. Wakefield’s (link) is a good example of what kind of conclusions can be drawn from the data. The report notes[…]
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The sustainability statement for the planned ‘phase two’ extension of the high speed rail link – which would go from Birmingham further north to destinations like Manchester and Leeds – contains a socio-economic appraisal which makes heavy use of deprivation statistics to claim various local development and regeneration opportunities. The[…]
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Nottingham city council created comprehensive online area profiles through a collaborative effort with partner organisations like the local NHS and police. This includes a powerful online mapping tool which features a plethora of statistics on demographics, crime, economy and deprivation (IMD score) at ward level as well as mapping features from streetlights to youth centres and[…]
Read More »According to Hansard records from October 2001 the Ministry of Defence uses the Index of Multiple Deprivation “to inform decisions such as unit moves, site rationalisations and investment decisions on new facilities” I managed to find an example of this in practice – an MoD Strategic Environmental Assessment from November[…]
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This report has some great examples of how the IMD can be used in public health reports to show area inequalities and highlight places of greatest need. It also has some excellent data visualisations. Click on the images to view in larger size. This neatly illustrates the different domains of the[…]
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SHAPE (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation) is: “a web enabled, evidence based application which informs and supports the strategic planning of services and physical assets across a whole health economy.” or in other words, an online mapping tool freely provided by Public Health England for Local Authorities and health[…]
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In a study by the University of Sheffield’s Social & Spatial Inequalities Research Group, the Indices of Multiple Deprivation were used to look at pupil absence inequalities. Secondary school pupil absence is an indicator in the Education, Skills and Training Domain of the IMD, measured as “the proportion of authorised and unauthorised absences[…]
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Here’s a 2008 article from the Guardian about delays in building the new Liverpool stadium, Anfield Plaza. The article notes how the area around Anfield is currently one of the most deprived places in England with streets of empty and boarded up houses. The area around Venmore street near the stadium[…]
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The Guardian ran a couple articles in 2012 on work by Alasdair Rae that uses the IMD 2004 through to 2010 and seems to show the pattern of relative poverty in London shifting outwards from the centre by looking at relative changes in ranking. In the main article the paper[…]
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In the aftermath of the widespread UK riots of August 2011, the Guardian created an interactive deprivation map placing locations where incidents took place in the context of area deprivation (although they use the term ‘poverty’, the map data is from the IMD 2010). However as commenters pointed out, while[…]
Read More »The ONS analysed levels of deprivation in the 57 largest seaside destinations to determine whether these areas – typically former seaside resorts – suffer from higher levels of deprivation than the average. They found that overall larger seaside destinations were more deprived than the England average in 2007 and 2010,[…]
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It’s before 10am on Friday morning and Howard Richards, 42, is drinking a beer outside Jaywick post office. He’s unemployed and on crutches because he’s having serious problems with his hip – he says he’s been on the NHS waiting list for months but he’s still waiting. Richards says he[…]
Read More »It’s always interesting to see how private businesses use the Indices of Deprivation to create new products – often mapping or area statistics based. Some of these are based around the housing market and targeted at potential house buyers, integrating the Indices of Deprivation into an ‘area lookup’ function. For[…]
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