Income 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 income deprivation. An area with more severe income deprivation will have a higher proportion of people on low incomes.
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 income.
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 income deprivation. Darker neighbourhoods face the highest levels, lighter areas the least.
What does it tell us?
Neighbourhoods with higher levels of income 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, but also in Hackney.
There are also large pockets of the most income deprived neighbourhoods in East London (Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham) as well as in South London - such as in Southwark 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.