Neighbourhoods in England's most deprived 20%
How many of each council's neighbourhoods are among the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England, worked out by adding up the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 deciles 1 and 2.
- Published by
- MHCLG
- Level of detail
- Council
- Published for
- Council
- 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.
- England296 of 296 councils have a figure
- Wales0 of 22 councils have a figure
- Scotland0 of 32 councils have a figure
- Northern Ireland0 of 11 councils have a figure
65 councils have no figure for 2025. The map hatches each one and gives the reason.
- Scotland measures deprivation its own way. See the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020. Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Na h-Eileanan Siar and 26 more
- Wales measures deprivation its own way. See the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham and 16 more
- Northern Ireland measures deprivation its own way. See the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017. Antrim and Newtownabbey, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Belfast, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh and 5 more
How it is made
Open Index shows the figures as MHCLG publishes them, for the areas they were published for: councils.
Counts for larger areas are added up from councils.
Zoom in past council level and the map keeps the council shapes and says so, rather than inventing detail.
- Council2025 only
Before you use it
- This adds up the neighbourhoods in deciles 1 and 2 of the English Indices of Deprivation, which are the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England. Open Index counts them for each council from MHCLG's published deciles.
- A count depends on how many neighbourhoods a council has, so large councils tend to have more. Compare the share of neighbourhoods to compare councils.
- Neighbourhoods are counted in the council they belong to now, including Barnsley and Sheffield after the boundary change of April 2025.
- 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:
60 of the neighbourhoods in Hackney are among the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England.
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