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 »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 »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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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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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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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 »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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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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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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ArcGIS, a mapping tool produced by geospatial company Esri, has loaded in all domains and indices from the 2015 English Indices of Deprivation release. The data is mapped at Local Authority, Parliamentary Constituency and Ward level. Take a look here.
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UK Data Service Census Support have visualised the Indices of Deprivation 2015 using Google Fusion Tables.
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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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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Academic and our favourite blogger Alasdair Rae contrasted the concentrations of most and least deprived LSOAs in English cities to demonstrate socio-spatial inequalities – as you can see the most and least deprived areas are often clustered together. He also created a huge infographic showing the absolute number of LSOAs in[…]
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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[…]
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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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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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Here’s a study from the Journal of Preventive Medicine looking at inequalities in registration for and use of ‘boris bikes’ in London. F. Ogilvie and A. Goodman found that those living in income-deprived areas in London were overall less likely to register for the bike scheme and that users were more likely[…]
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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[…]
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Birmingham is a city that frequently crops up when searching for mentions of deprivation – a large, dense city with many pockets of extreme poverty and disadvantage. Like many cities with significant levels of deprivation, local authority policy tends to be quite conscious of this. An interesting example I stumbled[…]
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Winning 5 medals at the 2012 olympics and with a number of ‘big name’ champions performing internationally, Britain is ‘punching above its weight’ when it comes to boxing (sorry), most likely due to a resilient network of local boxing gyms and a strong framework for pushing talented players to the[…]
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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For those interested in how deprivation might tie into voting patterns, blogger Alasdair Rae created maps of the 100 most and 100 least deprived parliamentary constituencies, highlighting the voting choice at the 2010 general election. He points out that the most obvious thing to note here is that the vast[…]
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