Health deprivation and disability across London neighbourhoods

Last updated: February 2025
Next update: January 2026 (TBC)

What does this indicator show?

This indicator shows the level of health deprivation in London’s neighbourhoods. This means the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor mental and physical health in a neighbourhood.

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 'Health Deprivation and Disability’.

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 face the most severe health deprivation. Darker neighbourhoods face the most severe, lighter neighbourhoods the least.

What does it tell us?

London is a patchwork of deprivation. Across the city, we can see neighbourhoods some of the city’s most health deprived neighbourhoods bordering with some of the least.

Areas with particularly high levels of health deprivation include much of the east of the city, such as in Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney, as well as large parts of some South London boroughs such as Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.