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About WIMD

The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales. It identifies areas with the highest concentrations of several different types of deprivation. It is a National Statistic produced by statisticians at the Welsh Government.

Deprivation is the lack of access to opportunities and resources which we might expect in our society. This can be in terms of material goods or the ability of an individual to participate in the normal social life of the community.

An Index is a group of separate measurements which are combined into a single number. WIMD is currently made up of eight separate domains (or types) of deprivation (see right hand side). Each of the domains include several indicators of deprivation.

WIMD ranks all small areas in Wales from 1(most deprived) to 1,909(least deprived).The Index provides a way of identifying areas in the order of least to most deprived.It does not provide a measure of the level of deprivation in an area, but rather whether an area is more or less deprived relative to all other areas in Wales. The WIMD 2019 Guidance provides more information on use and interpretation of the results.

Compared to WIMD 2014, WIMD 2019 will use updated data for most of the 47 indicators. The methodology used within WIMD 2019 is broadly the same as for WIMD 2014, but there have been some changes to the Index, including:

  • changes to individual indicators, and the inclusion of new indicators within the Health, Education, Access to Services, Physical Environment and Housing domains
  • small changes to the relative weights applied to the domains (or types) of deprivation

There have also been improvements to the functionality of this interactive tool between the two Indexes, including:

  • more detailed, downloadable maps
  • deprivation profiles for additional geographies, such as Built Up Areas and City/Growth Deal Regions

An overview of deprivation in Wales

Other WIMD resources

WIMD rank and indicator data is available for download from StatsWales.

The WIMD area of our Statistics and research website includes previous releases of data as well as latest news and updates. You can also find:

Explore WIMD

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Overall
Income Income
Income
Employment Employment
Employment
Health Health
Health
Education Education
Education
Access to Services Access to Services
Access to Services
Community Safety Community Safety
Community Safety
Physical Environment Physical Environment
Physical Environment
Housing Housing
Housing