INDEX OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION 2025 INTERACTIVE MAP

FREE IMD MAP WITH REWEIGHTABLE DOMAINS

The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in England. It combines data across seven domains: income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services, and living environment, to produce a single overall deprivation score for each Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA). The IMD underpins much of the spatial analysis and policy discussion around inequality and levelling up.

There are already many excellent commentaries and analyses of the 2025 IMD.

However, this tool serves a different purpose. It is designed as a free, interactive resource for anyone wishing to explore how the IMD might look under different policy priorities. Specifically, it allows you to:

  1. Analyse the IMD at LSOA level using the official benchmark weights applied in the published index.
  2. Adjust the domain weights dynamically, reflecting alternative local or strategic priorities, for example, giving greater emphasis to employment or housing factors.

The tool provides a simple, intuitive interface:

  • Adjustable sliders let you change the weight assigned to each of the seven domains.
  • The map updates instantly, re-colouring areas by decile to show how deprivation rankings shift under your chosen weighting scheme.
  • A search function allows you to zoom to any LSOA or local area by name or code.
  • You can export a CSV file containing both the benchmark and scenario results including: ranks, deciles, and the weighting scheme used, for further analysis.

This open-access resource is intended to support evidence-based local policy making, enabling practitioners, researchers, and community organisations to explore how the balance of social and economic challenges might vary under different perspectives on deprivation.

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DATA SOURCES & METHOD

Details of the IMD 2025, sources and method can be found here.

This tool uses the ‘transformed domain scores’ in order to perform reweighting (‘File 9’ on the above page).

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