Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, 2011

The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales. WIMD 2011 updates the previous release, WIMD 2008. It is produced by the Welsh Government.

The key points from the latest release are:

• the full data set for the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2011, which ranks the 1896 small areas of Wales according to their relative deprivation, can be downloaded from the Welsh Government’s StatsWales web pages;
• the WIMD 2011 Summary Report, which includes a summary of WIMD 2011, local authority analysis, guidance on how to download and use WIMD, a summary of methodological changes, and a list of the indicators used to create WIMD 2011 is available from the Welsh Government’s statistics web pages;
• the WIMD: indicator analysis will be updated with the WIMD 2011 indicators following the publication of WIMD 2011;
• Rhyl West 2, Denbighshire, remains the most deprived area in Wales, as determined by WIMD 2011. St James 3, Caerphilly is ranked second most deprived and Twyn Carno 1, Caerphilly is third.
• Butetown 2, Cardiff, was ranked first in WIMD 2005, fourth in WIMD 2008, and has moved to rank 68 in 2011.
• The local authority with the highest fraction of lower layer super output areas (LSOAs, the small areas on which WIMD is based) in the most deprived 10% in Wales is Merthyr Tydfil, with one in four (25.0%) of its 36 LSOAs in the most deprived 10% of areas in Wales. Blaenau Gwent is the next most deprived local authority by this measure, with just under one in four (23.4%) of its 47 LSOAs in the most deprived 10% in Wales.
• Ceredigion and Monmouthshire have none of their LSOAs in the most deprived 10% in Wales.
• Over one in five (21.7%) people identified as income deprived in the WIMD 2011 income domain reside in the most deprived 10% of areas in Wales.

Further information

The publication can be found under 'Related Links'.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5061
E-mail: stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

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