Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017
Each neighbourhood in Northern Ireland placed in a tenth of all neighbourhoods by overall deprivation, worked out by Open Index from the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017 rank.
Worked out by Open Index from the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017 rank
- 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
Worked out by Open Index from the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017 rank.
The overall rank of each of the 890 areas, with 1 the most deprived, split into ten groups of 89 ranks. Decile 1 holds ranks 1 to 89, decile 2 holds ranks 90 to 178, and so on to decile 10 with ranks 802 to 890. NISRA publishes the rank but no deciles. Its earlier reports treated the 89 most deprived areas as the most deprived 10%.
This snapshot uses deprivation rank (Northern Ireland) for 2017.
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
- Deprivation here is relative. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland and decile 10 the least. A decile says where a neighbourhood sits among the others, not how deprived it is.
- NISRA publishes the rank of each area and no deciles. Open Index splits the 890 ranks into ten groups of 89, as NISRA's earlier reports did for the most deprived 10%.
- 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 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
Credit the calculation as: Worked out by Open Index from the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017 rank.