# 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.

## Facts

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

## Periods

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

## Coverage

| Nation | Areas | With a figure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| England | 296 | 296 |
| Wales | 22 | 0 |
| Scotland | 32 | 0 |
| Northern Ireland | 11 | 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

- Scotland measures deprivation its own way. See the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020: 32 (Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Na h-Eileanan Siar)
- Wales measures deprivation its own way. See the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025: 22 (Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham)
- Northern Ireland measures deprivation its own way. See the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017: 11 (Antrim and Newtownabbey, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Belfast, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh)

## Caveats

- 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.

## Example: Hackney

In Hackney, 60 neighbourhoods are among the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England.

https://openindex.co.uk/hackney

## 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/most-deprived-20-england)
- Download (Council): https://data.openindex.co.uk/s/2026.10.8/downloads/layers/imd-2025-most-deprived-20/council.csv
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/imd-2025-most-deprived-20

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/sources/most-deprived-20-england.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

- 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 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/most-deprived-20-england