# Employment deprivation (England)

Each neighbourhood in England placed in a tenth of all English neighbourhoods by employment deprivation, working-age people shut out of work, from the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.

## Facts

- Published by: MHCLG
- Level of detail: Neighbourhood
- Updates: Every few years
- History: Since 2025
- Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0
- Levels: Neighbourhood

## Periods

| Level | First | Latest | Periods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neighbourhood | 2025 | 2025 | 1 |

## Coverage

| Nation | Areas | With a figure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| England | 33755 | 33755 |
| Wales | 1917 | 0 |
| Scotland | 7392 | 0 |
| Northern Ireland | 3780 | 0 |

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.

## Gaps

- Northern Ireland measures deprivation its own way. See the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017: 1000 (Dunsilly A1, Dunsilly B1, Dunsilly A2, Dunsilly A3, Dunsilly B2, Dunsilly A4)

## Caveats

- Employment deprivation is one of the seven parts of the English Indices of Deprivation. It measures working-age people who are shut out of work, for example by unemployment, sickness or disability.
- Decile 1 is the most employment deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England and decile 10 the least. A decile says where a neighbourhood sits among the others, not how many people are out of work.
- The indices describe areas, not people. Many people who are out of work live in neighbourhoods that are not employment deprived.
- England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each measure deprivation their own way, so Open Index never ranks or compares them together.

## Sources

### English Indices of Deprivation 2025

- Publisher: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Licence: [Open Government Licence 3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Edition: IoD2025 File 7 + IoD2025 File 10 v2
- Published: 30 October 2025
- Fetched: 15 October 2026
- Updates: irregular
- Credit: Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Crown copyright. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Publisher's page: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2025

## Use it

- [The map](https://openindex.co.uk/map/employment-deprivation-england)
- Download (Neighbourhood): https://data.openindex.co.uk/s/2026.10.9/downloads/layers/imd-2025-employment-decile/neighbourhood.csv
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/imd-2025-employment-decile

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/sources/employment-deprivation-england.

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- Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Crown copyright. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/employment-deprivation-england