This Guardian thingy is quite entertaining for a few mins. My area in Bristol has improved slightly since pre-pandemic, but we're still only around the 30th percentile. Crime rates seem to be dragging us down. My parents in Shrewsbury are doing much better!
How's your area?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/oct/30/how-deprived-is-your-area
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Couldn't be more average if we tried! Employment up quite a bit, but overall no change. Do well on crime.
We're 32709 out of 33755 in Skipton so I guess we're not that deprived? Income has gone down since 2019 but everything else is up and by the look of the chart we have no crime!
My old home town... no wonder I left the country.
Your area, Tameside 013A, is ranked 337 out of 33,755 in the 2025 Index of Multiple Deprivation (where 1 is most deprived and 33,755 is least deprived). This means it is more deprived than most neighourhoods.
We're 32709 out of 33755 in Skipton so I guess we're not that deprived? Income has gone down since 2019 but everything else is up and by the look of the chart we have no crime!
Come on, there must be some sheep rustling
Well I moved in here in 2019, so I guess not. Or maybe it has. I'll ask my neighbours.
My old area in the UK has got slightly worse off. Due to me leaving?
We're 32709 out of 33755 in Skipton so I guess we're not that deprived? Income has gone down since 2019 but everything else is up and by the look of the chart we have no crime!
Come on, there must be some sheep rustling
Probably out in the sticks but not in the town centre!
My old home place of abode seems to be surprisingly at the less deprived end of the scale. Maybe cos it's rural rather than the town?
Scores more deprived in 2025 than 2019 for everything except crime. But then crime would probably have been scrumping apples or something, but I would have thought that'd go up due to cost of living?
Since the Kipper MP got booted out for a Tory and then Labour I think after that, by definition it's gone up in the world.
So if Medway is at the less deprived end then I feel sorry for most of the rest of the nation.
We appear to be slightly less comfortable than we were in 2025, but still very comfortable in the scheme of things.
As always, don't have to very far to see some areas in much more difficulty
Not far from Tameside but 20,300 ish. I'm sure if I altered the postcode slightly and moved it to the left or right it wouldn't be as good.
Yeah, I remember tinkering with this a good few years ago. The houses on the opposite side of the road from mine back then were in a different area and had much worse stats!
Improvements in all areas except crime, but I don't feel crime is particularly bad anyway...
Area where I live is up at about 80%. Not too much of a surprise, it's rural but pretty middle class.
The area I teach in is in the bottom 15%. Sadly not much of a surprise either 😞
Toadhole furnace?!
in 10% least deprived here............ quite suprised really.
Where I live is in the top 20% with everything improved since 2019. Across the big road beyond the rec is in the bottom 20% but has improved from around bottom 10% crime and income there have got worse. Education has improved but is still within the bottom 10% despite the sparkly new academy, hardly a ringing endorsement for the scheme and probably a reason why the crime figures are worse.
On the verge of moving house to an area of Kirklees in West Yorkshire from what is probably the most affluent part of Sheffield. Thought as a result the score would be lower but turns out it’s going from 25,500 to just short of 27,000. Bit of a surprise largely on the basis of the crime score by the looks of it. Hopefully that means my car and home insurance will go down if nothing else.
7710 here. We've got wealthier and better educated since 2019, but slightly less healthy. We're a long way behind all you posh nobs though.
Inside the bottom 1% here(224).So have a flucking guess how it's gone
My mate Ian in the adjoining ward is at No 72!Always new I was posher than him.
3,473 for Good old Wolverhampton.
Anyone top 100 on the Depravity scale??
Who's number 1???? Ah... Jaywick??
Malvern Link is ranked 20,000 and something. Crime has gone down since 2019, probably because there fewer police in Malvern to catch the scallies.
The ranking is quite odd. My old address in the centre of Leeds is ~28k and thus less deprived than my current area in Wiltshire (19k), despite only outscoring Wiltshire on employment (and only be a small margin) and Wiltshire being vastly better in health, crime and education. Whilst being tied on income. Very odd.
32826 here Slightly down on employment and income. Which I’m slightly suprised by but they are really near the top at way. Crime seems to have got better. Lucky my kids don’t want to buy a house best here
As a Hastings resident, i already know the answer!
Where i grew up is number 59 out of 33,755. Things have deteriated a lot since I left in the '90s. It wasn't great then though, but not that bad. Now: boarded up houses, drugs, crime...sad really for an old northern working town.
Just put a bunch of previous addresses in. Turns out i haven't lived anywhere that's (now) in the top half since leaving home.
Astonished to see that one of the places I lived in Salford in the 90s now ranks higher than Chorlton. How Manchester has changed. Weaste lane still seems to be a dump, mind.
Lowest ranked is a street in Bristol, that i really enjoyed living in. A bit rough, but had a great pub!
Just tried a few, where i was brought up is smack bang in the middle of the stats at about 17000, uni digs were just outside the bottom 10% (3400), then a few months in a 75% place near Leicester, back down to 3800 in Derby. Then up to a 85% on all counts but education (about 55% and getting worse). Proper hardcore flagshaggers by the looks of the local facebook page.
Fatface has it.Levelling up has been a tremendous success.
Mine is just below average - 15,831, but if I lived on the street my cul-de-sac comes off, I'd be in 11,995 as I'm right on the edge of a postcode.
Both kinda surprising living there, until you look at the entire area covered. Both postcodes incudes 'nicer' areas and 'less nice' areas - the data isn't overly granular in that respect.
Still, the biggest shift is in crime, which has gone from around 17% to 51% in 6 years. It was 7 years ago that we had a crime wave in the cul-de-sac, so that stands to reason 😂
Mine is higher than average, apart from education, which I don’t quite understand, unless it means that there aren’t actually any schools within it. There’s two schools within about a five minute walk, but both are actually just outside.
I would add, the road I actually live on, which is the lower boundary of the area, which had the dubious distinction of being regarded as the worst road in town because of the terrible state of it, (there were potholes that actually showed the original concrete surface laid down in the 1930’s), was completely resurfaced a year back, where they brought in contractors who stripped the entire surface back to the base and resurfaced it with expansion joints as well, so we’ve now got possibly the best road in town, so we no longer feel deprived in that sense!
4554. Employment is down and health is worse. Probably caused by me having 3 months off sick unpaid recently🤣. Should move really. Then I could risk putting a bike on a bike rack, rather than in the car.
20000, no overall change but health significantly up while employment and education are notably down. I can't think of any particular things that may have driven those changes.
Limited to England... so who cares 🤣
Income up, everything else down.
This is in a former mining town in NW England.
Everything worse except crime. I'm willing to bet that's because people don't bother reporting crimes as nothing happens if you do.
Odd that Eaton Square in Belgravia scores 26,945 out of 33,755. Mainly due to high crime it seems.
Sounds familiar Mister-P
The neighbourhood has officially improved since 2019. We moved here in 2021, ya know, just sayin'...
Where I grew up:
Where I am now:
And it's only about 3 miles away!
I played with this the other day. Everything is better.
It seems crime was in the 10% most deprived and now in the 40% least deprived.
Health was in the 40% most deprived 40% and now is in the 40% least deprived.
Education is seemingly unmoved at the extreme end of least deprived. Employment and income are about 10% improved with both in the 10% least deprived. Sort of checks out. There’s some bias in my ‘sample’ but it seems anyone who moves in is a doctor, university academic, or some other sort of professional.
the picture seems similar for friends on the other side of this leafy manchester ‘village’.
28,791 out of 33,755
Where I used to live in West Yorkshire in the 80s is almost unchanged in the reporting period.
33,569 out of 33,755
Gone down in all areas. Probably because the local council decided we didn't have enough scrotes in the area so built social housing and shipped them in from Nottingham
Some of us on here live in social housing mate.Very few are scrotes for your information.
Some of us on here live in social housing mate.Very few are scrotes for your information.
I'm well aware of that, but the majority of the scrotes they shipped in from Nottingham were indeed full blown scrotes
My In-laws Calderdale house is 7500/33755, just down the road..literally 50 yards....their friends house (identical semi on the same road) is at 19055.
My In-laws Calderdale house is 7500/33755, just down the road..literally 50 yards....their friends house (identical semi on the same road) is at 19055.
one of the consequences of applying a population result to a single subject? Plus the somewhat arbitrary nature of the postcode boundaries. On the ground I expect the close-by places are mostly indistinguishable.