English indices of deprivation 2025
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-17)

Statistics on relative deprivation in small areas in England. Further details are provided at the bottom of this page and in the FAQ document.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) corrected and republished an LSOA to Local Authority District (LAD) look-up file (https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons::lsoa-2021-to-electoral-ward-2024-to-lad-2024-best-fit-lookup-in-ew/about) on the ONS Open Geography portal website (https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/) which was available to users from 26 August 2025.

This update corrected an error in the original ONS release relating to the allocation of LSOA E01027305 - West Northamptonshire 048E. Prior to this correction, the LSOA was allocated to Cherwell LAD (E07000177) in error. Following republication, the LSOA is now correctly allocated to West Northamptonshire LAD (E06000062). The Indices production team accessed this ONS look-up file prior to its republication to meet production timescales, resulting in the ONS error being present in the Indices statistics published on 30 October 2025.

All LSOA files (Files 1 to 9) have now be corrected with no change to the data. Other impacted files (Files 10, 11 and 14) have now been updated with minor changes. Please ensure you are using the updated ‘v2’ of these workbooks

These statistics update the English indices of deprivation 2019.

The English indices of deprivation measure relative deprivation in small areas in England called lower-layer super output areas. The index of multiple deprivation is the most widely used of these indices.

The statistical release and FAQ document (above) explain how the Indices of Deprivation 2025 (IoD25) and the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD25) can be used and signpost users to the suite of data files and guidance documents available.

The first data file contains the IMD25 ranks and deciles and is usually sufficient for the purposes of most users.

Our Local Deprivation Explorer (https://deprivation.communities.gov.uk/) allows users to look up deprivation data for their area, explore comparisons across England using an interactive map, and download data, with the option to download deprivation data for specific post-codes. A spatial data geopackage (https://communitiesopendata-communities.hub.arcgis.com) is also available complete with shapefiles, mapping templates and further mapping resources online.

Further detail is available in the research report (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-indices-of-deprivation-2025-research-report), which gives detailed guidance on how to interpret the data and presents some further findings, and the technical report (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-indices-of-deprivation-2025-technical-report), which describes the methodology and quality assurance processes underpinning the indices.

As part of the IoD25 update, a rural report (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-indices-of-deprivation-2025-rural-report), produced in collaboration with Defra, considers how deprivation can manifest in a specifically rural context, how it may be quantified or measured and how this may be improved in future.