The Index of Multiple Deprivation ranks all of England’s 33,755 neighbourhoods, each with an average of 1,500 people, by their deprivation score.
The score is calculated from data on income, employment, education, crime, health and disability, barriers to housing and services, and the living environment.
Once all the neighbourhoods are ranked, they are split into 10 equal groups called deciles, where the first decile is the 3,375 most deprived neighbourhoods and so on.
We are using terms like “highly deprived” and “most deprived” to refer to this group of neighbourhoods. There are areas of deprivation throughout England and not everyone in a neighbourhood will experience deprivation equally.
