Deprivation rank (Northern Ireland)
The overall rank of each neighbourhood in Northern Ireland, from 1 (most deprived) to 890 (least deprived), from the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017.
- Published by
- NISRA
- Level of detail
- Neighbourhood
- Published for
- Neighbourhood
- Covers
- Northern Ireland
- Updates
- Every few years
- Latest period
- 2017
- Published
- 23 November 2017
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- Northern Ireland
- England(not covered)
- Wales(not covered)
- Scotland(not covered)
England measures deprivation its own way. See the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Wales measures deprivation its own way. See the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025.
Scotland measures deprivation its own way. See the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020.
- Northern Ireland890 of 890 neighbourhoods have a figure
How it is made
Open Index shows the figures as NISRA publishes them, for the areas they were published for: neighbourhoods.
Larger areas use the publisher’s own figures, never an average of smaller areas.
Zoom in past neighbourhood level and the map keeps the neighbourhood shapes and says so, rather than inventing detail.
- Neighbourhood2017 only
Before you use it
- Rank 1 is the most deprived neighbourhood in Northern Ireland and rank 890 the least. The rank says where a neighbourhood sits among the others, not how deprived it is. Rank 100 is more deprived than rank 200, but not twice as deprived.
- This is the 2017 edition, the latest. Most of the data are from 2015 and 2016, and NISRA has announced no update.
- The 890 areas are the 2001 super output areas. They differ from the 2021 data zones used for other Northern Ireland figures, so the outlines will not line up exactly.
- NISRA says its rankings cannot be used to show how deprivation has changed over time.
- The map colours the areas in ten groups of 89 ranks, from the darkest (most deprived) to the lightest. NISRA publishes no deciles.
- The indices describe areas, not people. Many people who are not deprived live in deprived areas, and many deprived people live in areas that are not.
- England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each measure deprivation their own way, so Open Index never ranks or compares them together.
Colours on the map
Fixed breaks, held for every period, so colours mean the same over time.
Source and licence
- Edition
- NIMDM 2017 SOA results
- Published
- 23 November 2017
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0