Deprivation Statistics Comparison for Wednesbury North, Sandwell

English Indices of Deprivation statistical comparisons for Lower-Super Output Areas in Wednesbury North, Sandwell, West Midlands

We have used the 10 English index of deprivation statistics Lower-Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in Wednesbury North, to provide you with an at-a-glace overview of deprivation in this area of Sandwell. We have combined these statitics into an English ward level, as most people are familiar with this geospacial area in their town or city. Here are those 10 marked on a map:

Each area has its own decile score. This is where each LSOA in England is ranked according to the level of deprivation and split into 10 equal groups. A decile score of 1 means the area is in the top 10% of deprived areas, 2 is equal to the top 20% and so forth. To simply these scores and apply them to a ward, we have created the iLiveHere rating. This takes the average decile score of all the LSOAs in a ward and converts that into a rating out of 10, where 1 is the best and 10 is the worst. We have then used to traffic light colour system as an at-a-glance reference. As you scroll down this page, the more red ratings you see, the more deprived Wednesbury North is. Indices of Deprivation statistics and are broken down into domains of deprivation or more simply, categories. These category scores are combined using a percentage weighting to give a an LSOA its final indices of deprivation score, decile and rank:

Income Deprivation (22.5%)
Employment Deprivation (22.5%)
Education, Skills and Training Deprivation (13.5%)
Health Deprivation and Disability (13.5%)
Crime (9.3%)
Barriers to Housing and Services (9.3%)
Living Environment Deprivation (9.3%)

Below we have split the Living Environment Deprivation category into its sub-categories. We think having individual iLiveHere ratings for Inside Environment and Outside Environment provides a better insight to the housing quality and outside space in Wednesbury North. However, the Living Environment Deprivation decile is used for the overall ward iLiveHere rating.

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Overall Deprivation in Wednesbury North

Bad

iLivehere Rating 8/10

Taking into consideration all the English Indices of Deprivation (2019) domains, this is our overall iLiveHere rating for Wednesbury North. It is certainly something you should take into account if you are thinking of moving to this area of Sandwell.

LSOA Name	IMD Score	IMD Rank (England)	IMD Decile
Sandwell 005C	42.039	3712/32,844	2
Sandwell 005A	39.525	4410/32,844	2
Sandwell 005B	37.907	4903/32,844	2
Sandwell 001C	37.57	5025/32,844	2
Sandwell 001D	36.468	5387/32,844	2
Sandwell 001B	35.057	5866/32,844	2
Sandwell 001E	34.388	6104/32,844	2
Sandwell 003E	33.254	6568/32,844	2
Sandwell 001A	31.931	7107/32,844	3
Sandwell 007B	11.769	22440/32,844	7

Income Deprivation in Wednesbury North

Bad

iLivehere Rating 8/10

This iLiveHere rating is an indicator of what proportion of the population are experiencing deprivation relating to low income in Wednesbury North. The definition of low income the government uses to compile these statistics includes those who are out-of-work (for any reason, not just unemployment) and those that are in work but satisfy the IMD means tests. In the real world, this means they may qualify for means tested benefits such as Universal Credit or legacy benefits such as Working Tax Credits. You should not to assume that this rating is an indicator of overall poverty in this ward.

LSOA Name	Income Score	Income Rank (England)	Income Decile
Sandwell 005A	0.276	3018/32,844	1
Sandwell 005B	0.241	4462/32,844	2
Sandwell 001C	0.234	4799/32,844	2
Sandwell 005C	0.229	5038/32,844	2
Sandwell 003E	0.227	5133/32,844	2
Sandwell 001D	0.218	5621/32,844	2
Sandwell 001E	0.217	5699/32,844	2
Sandwell 001B	0.214	5879/32,844	2
Sandwell 001A	0.163	9349/32,844	3
Sandwell 007B	0.045	27378/32,844	9

Employment Deprivation in Wednesbury North

Bad

iLivehere Rating 8/10

This iLiveHere rating is an iundicator of the proportion of working-age residents in Wednesbury North who are excluded from the jobs market. These are people who are involuntarily deprived of work. The IMD domains include people who are unemployment, those who are sick or disabled, and carers. Since the government no longer publishes percentage figures for unemployment after the introduction of Universal Credit, his is now the only reliable indictor of joblessness in this ward. The higher the iLiveHere rating, the harder it could be to get work.

LSOA Name	Employment Score	Employment Rank (England)	Employment Decile
Sandwell 005C	0.203	2988/32,844	1
Sandwell 005B	0.183	4127/32,844	2
Sandwell 005A	0.165	5364/32,844	2
Sandwell 001C	0.164	5415/32,844	2
Sandwell 001E	0.162	5551/32,844	2
Sandwell 003E	0.161	5667/32,844	2
Sandwell 001D	0.16	5713/32,844	2
Sandwell 001B	0.151	6493/32,844	2
Sandwell 001A	0.136	7895/32,844	3
Sandwell 007B	0.05	24685/32,844	8

Education, Skills and Training Deprivation in Wednesbury North

Bad

iLivehere Rating 8/10

This iLiveHere rating ia an indicator of the lack of formal qualification and job-based skills in the Wednesbury North population. The average Education, Skill and Training rank for children (12275/32,844) in Wednesbury North is more than the adult average rank (4310/32,844). It could be argued that the more educated children leave the area.

LSOA Name	Education Score	Education Rank (England)	Education Decile
Sandwell 001D	49.045	3419/32,844	2
Sandwell 005A	46.449	3868/32,844	2
Sandwell 001B	45.345	4090/32,844	2
Sandwell 005C	42.575	4734/32,844	2
Sandwell 001C	40.158	5329/32,844	2
Sandwell 001E	35.723	6540/32,844	2
Sandwell 005B	34.625	6893/32,844	3
Sandwell 003E	29.373	8834/32,844	3
Sandwell 001A	25.038	10807/32,844	4
Sandwell 007B	14.678	17607/32,844	6

Health Deprivation and Disability in Wednesbury North

Bad

iLivehere Rating 8/10

This iLiveHere rating is indictor of the risk of dying prematurely or having your quality of life impaired through poor physical or mental health in Wednesbury North. The IMD domain measures morbidity, disability and premature mortality. However, it does not take into consideration but personal behaviour or environmental factors that may be predictive of future health problems. See Outdoor Deprivation for depivation that includes environmental factors such as local pullution levels.

LSOA Name	Health Score	Health Rank (England)	Health Decile
Sandwell 005C	1.119	3389/32,844	2
Sandwell 003E	1.001	4219/32,844	2
Sandwell 001E	0.918	4884/32,844	2
Sandwell 005A	0.917	4892/32,844	2
Sandwell 005B	0.871	5286/32,844	2
Sandwell 001D	0.808	5827/32,844	2
Sandwell 001A	0.808	5832/32,844	2
Sandwell 001B	0.727	6617/32,844	3
Sandwell 001C	0.704	6839/32,844	3
Sandwell 007B	0.224	12724/32,844	4

Crime Deprivation in Wednesbury North

Average

iLivehere Rating 6/10

This iLiveHere rating is an indictor of how likely you are to be a victim of personal and material crime in Wednesbury North. In policing statistics, this is known as 'street level crime' and includes offences such as robbery, burglary and other personal violent crime.

LSOA Name	Crime Score	Crime Rank (England)	Crime Decile
Sandwell 005C	0.628	7346/32,844	3
Sandwell 001A	0.628	7347/32,844	3
Sandwell 005B	0.607	7652/32,844	3
Sandwell 001C	0.573	8082/32,844	3
Sandwell 005A	0.493	9168/32,844	3
Sandwell 001E	0.317	11691/32,844	4
Sandwell 001D	0.286	12154/32,844	4
Sandwell 003E	0.154	14248/32,844	5
Sandwell 001B	0.089	15286/32,844	5
Sandwell 007B	-1.114	29949/32,844	10

There were 332 street level crime incidents in the Policing neighbourhood that covers Wednesbury North in February 2024

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Barriers to Housing and Services in Wednesbury North

Above Average

iLivehere Rating 4/10

This iLiveHere rating measures the financial accessibility and physical accessibility to housing and local services in Wednesbury North. I bad rating in an urban area indicates how unaffordable the housing could be. A bad rating in a rural area is an indicator of the absense of local services.

LSOA Name	Barriers Score	Barriers Rank (England)	Barriers Decile
Sandwell 007B	27.615	8750/32,844	3
Sandwell 005A	22.52	13724/32,844	5
Sandwell 001B	20.465	16117/32,844	5
Sandwell 005C	19.567	17181/32,844	6
Sandwell 003E	18.242	18804/32,844	6
Sandwell 001E	17.256	20103/32,844	7
Sandwell 005B	16.001	21676/32,844	7
Sandwell 001C	15.457	22415/32,844	7
Sandwell 001A	15.306	22616/32,844	7
Sandwell 001D	14.632	23492/32,844	8

Inside Environment Deprivation in Wednesbury North

Below Average

iLivehere Rating 7/10

This iLivehHere rating is an indicator of the quality of housing in Wednesbury North. A bad rating in an equally income deprived ward, could be because of poorly maintained rented accomodation. A bad rating in a non income deprived area, could be because the small size of housing in relation to costs.

LSOA Name	Inside Score	Inside Rank (England)	Inside Decile
Sandwell 001A	0.935	4386/32,844	2
Sandwell 001C	0.934	4390/32,844	2
Sandwell 001B	0.825	5435/32,844	2
Sandwell 001D	0.778	5914/32,844	2
Sandwell 005B	0.653	7283/32,844	3
Sandwell 005C	0.647	7379/32,844	3
Sandwell 001E	0.468	9643/32,844	3
Sandwell 005A	0.169	13837/32,844	5
Sandwell 003E	0.166	13890/32,844	5
Sandwell 007B	-0.203	19668/32,844	6

Outside Environment Deprivation in Wednesbury North

Very Bad

iLivehere Rating 9/10

This iLiveHere rating is an indicator of what the outdoors environment is like in Wednesbury North. The IMD domains measure the air quality and the rate of road traffic accidents in each LSOA.

LSOA Name	Outside Score	Outside (England)	Outside Decile
Sandwell 001A	1.561	1426/32,844	1
Sandwell 001C	1.112	3422/32,844	2
Sandwell 005C	1.076	3623/32,844	2
Sandwell 001D	0.969	4362/32,844	2
Sandwell 005B	0.877	5015/32,844	2
Sandwell 001E	0.858	5171/32,844	2
Sandwell 001B	0.845	5278/32,844	2
Sandwell 007B	0.767	5913/32,844	2
Sandwell 003E	0.762	5946/32,844	2
Sandwell 005A	0.758	5990/32,844	2

Source: English indices of deprivation 2019
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Disclaimer: Although every care has been taken to make sure there are no mistakes in the data presented on this page, you should verify these figures with the official data source.

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