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.
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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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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[…]
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Here is a recent statistical bulletin by the ONS looking at differences in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy between people living in the most deprived and least deprived areas in England between 2009-2013, using the 2015 indices. Some headline points: England average life expectancy at birth for men was 79.1 years, and[…]
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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[…]
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‘The State of the North’, a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) includes a look at differences in early years attainment in the regions. This chart shows the difference both between and within regions:
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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[…]
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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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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:
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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 »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 »Developed by the folks at Open Data Communities for DCLG, you can explore the 2015 English Indices of Deprivation on an interactive map. http://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/idmap.html
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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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Here’s a post by Alasdair Rae about the idea of a North South divide in IMD 2010. He points out that while the most deprived LSOA in England was Jaywick, in Essex, the overall picture shows that deprivation, with the exception of London and some pockets of deprivation in the South,[…]
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Source: Guardian, Campaign for Fairer Gambling The Guardian ran an article on research by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling that suggests bookmakers are concentrated in, and take more money from, areas of higher deprivation as measured by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010. Find out more: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/englands-poorest-spend-gambling-machines
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