Name: Share of neighbourhoods in Wales's most deprived 20%
Creator: Open Index
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Map of share of neighbourhoods in wales's most deprived 20% by council

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Worked out by Open Index·Welsh Government© OpenStreetMap

Most deprived areas in Wales by council (WIMD 2025)

The share of each council's neighbourhoods that are among the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in Wales, worked out by Open Index from the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 deciles. The latest figures are for 2025, down to councils across Wales. Worked out by Open Index from the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 deciles. Blaenau Gwent was the most deprived of Wales’s 22 councils in 2025 (share of neighbourhoods in Wales's most deprived 20%: 37.0%). Ceredigion was the least deprived (2.2%). The middle council, Wrexham, had 17.9%.

WIMD 2025 map: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation

Most and least deprived councils in Wales (2025)

Deprivation in Wales

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