Latest deprivation index released

Rachel Smith at Centre for Cities provides the details and interesting illustrations of the variability of deprivation.

For example:

• Tendring, in the East of England, is the most deprived area in England.
  
  
• All major cities have deprived areas (some of them in generally affluent areas such as the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea as I noted in the Evening Standard).
  
  
• In Blackburn, 9 percent of the city's population – or 12,100 people – were located in the most deprived 1 percent of all neighbourhoods and in Blackpool 7 percent – or 23, 600 people.

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