Deprivation rank (Wales)
The overall rank of each neighbourhood in Wales, from 1 (most deprived) to 1,917 (least deprived), from the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025.
- Published by
- Welsh Government
- Level of detail
- Neighbourhood
- Published for
- Neighbourhood
- Covers
- Wales
- Updates
- Every few years
- Latest period
- 2025
- Published
- 27 November 2025
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- Wales
- England(not covered)
- Scotland(not covered)
- Northern Ireland(not covered)
England measures deprivation its own way. See the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Scotland measures deprivation its own way. See the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020.
Northern Ireland measures deprivation its own way. See the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017.
- England0 of 33,755 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Wales1,917 of 1,917 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Scotland0 of 7,392 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Northern Ireland0 of 3,780 neighbourhoods have a figure
1,000 neighbourhoods have no figure for 2025. The map hatches each one and gives the reason.
- England measures deprivation its own way. See the English Indices of Deprivation 2025. City of London 001A, City of London 001B, City of London 001C, City of London 001E, Barking and Dagenham 016A, Barking and Dagenham 015A and 994 more
How it is made
Open Index shows the figures as Welsh Government 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.
- Neighbourhood2025 only
Before you use it
- Rank 1 is the most deprived neighbourhood in Wales and rank 1,917 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.
- The map colours each neighbourhood by the Welsh Government's deciles of the rank, from the darkest tenth (most deprived) to the lightest.
- The indices describe areas, not people. Many people who are not deprived live in deprived neighbourhoods, and many deprived people live in neighbourhoods that are not.
- The Welsh Government says its scores must not be averaged to larger areas, so Open Index shows ranks and deciles for neighbourhoods only.
- 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
- WIMD 2025 ranks
- Published
- 27 November 2025
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0