The government has recently published the English indices of multiple deprivation for 2025 – the first release on relative deprivation levels since 2019.

They use seven different measures to calculate a figure that approximates how deprived each area is (hence “multiple”), and then they rank (hence “index”) everywhere in the country based on that score. The measures used relate to income, employment, education, health, crime, housing, and the quality of the local environment.

I’ve taken a look at what the figures say about my neck of the woods – mainly Greater Manchester, but first of all here’s a look at the North West as a whole, because of Blackpool up in Lancashire.