Share of neighbourhoods in Scotland's most deprived 20%
The share of each council's neighbourhoods (2011 data zones) that are among the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in Scotland, worked out by Open Index from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2 deciles.
Worked out by Open Index from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2 deciles
- Published by
- Scottish Government
- Level of detail
- Council
- Published for
- Council
- Covers
- Scotland
- Updates
- Every few years
- Latest period
- 2020
- Published
- 27 April 2020
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 for the calculation; its inputs under the Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- Scotland
- England(not covered)
- Wales(not covered)
- Northern Ireland(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.
Northern Ireland measures deprivation its own way. See the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017.
- England0 of 296 councils have a figure
- Wales0 of 22 councils have a figure
- Scotland32 of 32 councils have a figure
- Northern Ireland0 of 11 councils have a figure
329 councils have no figure for 2020. The map hatches each one and gives the reason.
- England measures deprivation its own way. See the English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington, Halton and 290 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
Worked out by Open Index from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2 deciles.
The number of a council's 2011 data zones in deciles 1 and 2 of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2, divided by all its data zones. Deciles 1 and 2 are the 1,395 data zones ranked 1 to 1,395 of 6,976, the most deprived 20%. The Scottish Government calls this share a council's local share. Each data zone is counted in the council the Scottish Government names for it, and every council's count matches the Scottish Government's own local share figures.
Larger areas use the publisher’s own figures, never an average of smaller areas.
Zoom in past council level and the map keeps the council shapes and says so, rather than inventing detail.
- Council2020 only
Before you use it
- This is the share of a council's neighbourhoods that are in deciles 1 and 2 of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in Scotland. The Scottish Government calls it the local share. It shows where the most deprived neighbourhoods are, not how deprived the council is overall.
- Open Index counts each council's neighbourhoods from the Scottish Government's published ranks and its rank to decile table. The counts match the Scottish Government's own local share figures for every council.
- A share of zero means none of the council's neighbourhoods are in the most deprived 20%. It does not mean nobody there is deprived.
- The neighbourhoods are the 6,976 data zones of 2011 that SIMD 2020 uses, not the 2022 data zones used for other Scottish figures. Each is counted in the council the Scottish Government names for it.
- The indices describe areas, not people. Many people who are not deprived live in deprived neighbourhoods, and many deprived people live in neighbourhoods 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.
How Open Index describes it
Page text on Open Index comes from this layer’s sentence rules, filled in with published figures. For Glasgow:
45.4% of the neighbourhoods in Glasgow are among the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in Scotland.
Among councils in Scotland, that is the highest of 32.
Worked out by Open Index from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2 deciles.
Source and licence
- Edition
- SIMD 2020v2 ranks + SIMD rank to decile table
- Published
- 27 April 2020
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Credit the calculation as: Worked out by Open Index from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2 deciles. It is licensed under CC BY 4.0, with the source credit lines above.
Use this data
The published data archive is on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508848.