Employment deprivation, rebased for London (2025)
Last updated: December 2025
Next update: TBC
What does this indicator show?
This indicator ranks London’s neighbourhoods according to its level of employment deprivation. An area with more severe employment deprivation will have a higher proportion of people out of work involuntarily.
It uses the English Indices of Deprivation, which gives each neighbourhood an overall deprivation score. It does this by combining data from seven areas known as domains, one of which is employment.
For this indicator, we have excluded all non-London neighbourhoods and divided them into five equal groups - known as quintiles. This allows us to quickly see which areas of London have the highest levels of employment deprivation. Darker neighbourhoods face the highest levels, lighter areas the least.
What does it tell us?
Neighbourhoods with higher levels of employment deprivation are spread all over the city. However, there are concentrations of neighbourhoods with higher levels of income deprivation in parts of North London, especially in Enfield, as well as in Brent and parts of South London - such as in Lewisham and Croydon.
This indicator is part of our work to map deprivation across London, using the English Index of Multiple Deprivation. Explore all of our IMD maps.