Deprivation (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)

Interpreting deprivation data

  • Deprivations data is often given in quintiles (groups of 5) or deciles (groups of 10) with:
    • 1 being the lowest and most deprived
    • 5 or 10 being the highest and least deprived.
  • IMD is a measurement of relative deprivation and not affluence. It can be used to compare two or more areas.
  • Because methods for calculating deprivation change with each release (the previous score came out in 2010), scores between releases for the same area cannot be compared.
  • A summary infographic on how IMD scores can and cannot be used can be viewed at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: The English Indices of Deprivation 2019 (IoD2019) .
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