Everyone knows that some neighbourhoods are better-off than others. But how is this measured, and how are people’s lives and life-chances affected by where they live?
In March 2011, the Department for Communities and Local Government published a list of all the areas in England ranked in order of their level of deprivation. (Separate data are available for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.) The media made great play of the fact that the most deprived area in England is Jaywick Sands, in Essex. The ranking of areas is obtained by using the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). These are an attempt to measure the broad concept of ‘multiple deprivation’, which is made up of 38 distinct dimensions of deprivation, taken from the following seven domains:
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