Health Deprivation and Disability, 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 health deprivation. If a neighbourhood is ‘health deprived’, it means the people who live there are more at risk of premature health, or poor mental or physical health that impacts their quality of life.
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.
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.