Deprivation score (England)
The overall deprivation score of each neighbourhood in England, and MHCLG's average score for each council, from the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- Published by
- MHCLG
- Level of detail
- Neighbourhood
- Published for
- Council and Neighbourhood
- Covers
- England
- Updates
- Every few years
- Latest period
- 2025
- Published
- 30 October 2025
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- England
- Wales(not covered)
- Scotland(not covered)
- Northern Ireland(not covered)
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 Ireland measures deprivation its own way. See the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017.
- England33,755 of 33,755 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Wales0 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.
- Northern Ireland measures deprivation its own way. See the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017. Dunsilly A1, Dunsilly B1, Dunsilly A2, Dunsilly A3, Dunsilly B2, Dunsilly A4 and 994 more
How it is made
Open Index shows the figures as MHCLG publishes them, for the areas they were published for: councils and 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.
- Council2025 only
- Neighbourhood2025 only
Before you use it
- A score puts areas in order. It does not measure how much deprivation there is, so an area with twice the score is not necessarily twice as deprived.
- A higher score means more deprivation. Scores and ranks are relative to the rest of England.
- Council scores are MHCLG's own summaries, the average of the council's neighbourhood scores weighted by population. Open Index does not work them out.
- An average hides the spread within a council. A council with a middling average can still hold some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
- Barnsley and Sheffield council scores are for their boundaries before April 2025. Their neighbourhood scores are not affected.
- 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.
How Open Index describes it
Page text on Open Index comes from this layer’s sentence rules, filled in with published figures. For Hackney:
Hackney has a deprivation score of 31.8 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Among areas of the same kind in England, that is the 27th highest of 296.
A higher score means more deprivation.
Source and licence
- Edition
- IoD2025 File 7 + IoD2025 File 10 v2
- Published
- 30 October 2025
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0