Indices of Deprivation for UK Countries

This site contains interactive maps of deprivation in England, Scotland and Wales, using officially-published data.

Interactive Maps

• English Indices of Deprivation 2015
• Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2016 (Previous release: SIMD 2012)
• Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2014
• Note: maps of the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2010 are available from NISRA

About this site

This site is a personal project by James Trimble. Thanks to Alasdair Rae (University of Sheffield) and Maike Waldmann (Scottish Government) for helpful comments on drafts of the maps.

I would love to receive feedback on how you use these maps or how they could be improved: contact james dot trimble at yahoo dot co dot uk .

External Links

Basic Guidance

For a quick introduction to this data and its limitations, see the guidance notes for England and Wales, and the Scottish Government's booklet.

Official Publication Pages and Source Data

• English Indices of Deprivation: Main page
• Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure: Main page
• Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation: SIMD page on gov.scot
• Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation: Main page
• LSOA boundaries (England and Wales) Details page on ONS Open Geography Portal Direct link to data
• Data Zone boundaries (Scotland) Direct link to data

Other Useful Links

• Alasdair Rae's blog Stats, Maps n Pix contains numerous posts on the indices of deprivation
• Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion have an Indices of Deprivation resource site