English Index of Multiple Deprivation, rebased for London (2019)
Last updated: February 2025
Next update: January 2026 (TBC)
What does this indicator show?
This indicator maps relative deprivation in London’s neighbourhoods. It uses the overall Index from the English Indices of Deprivation, which gathers together 39 separate data sources and combines them into seven areas known as domains:
- Income
- Employment
- Crime
- Living environment
- Education, skills and training
- Health and disability
- Barriers to housing and services
Every neighbourhood is given an overall score as well as one for each domain, which are ranked out of the 32,844 neighbourhoods (Lower Super Output Areas) in England . For this indicator, we have excluded all non-London neighbourhoods from the rankings and divided them into five equal groups - known as quintiles. This allows us to quickly view the least and most deprived areas in London.
The darkest areas of the map show London’s most deprived areas - the lightest areas are the least.
What does it tell us?
From this map, we can see that London is a patchwork of deprivation, neighbourhoods with vastly different levels of deprivation are pushed up against one another in all boroughs to some extent, but some clear wider trends also emerge.
Neighbourhoods in the very centre of London, in the City and the West End, tend to be amongst the least deprived. This is also true of more suburban areas in outer London, particularly in the south west around Richmond and Kingston.
There are several areas with clusters of neighbourhoods that are highly deprived. These include parts of inner London, particularly around Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington, parts of East London and the western side of the Lea Valley up into Enfield.
You can explore maps for each of the Indices of Deprivation's seven domains below.
