Links to All Local Authority Pages for Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
This page is under construction but meanwhile provides useful links to the individual local authority pages.
The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) is a detailed analysis of deprived areas based on many key measures of deprivation including health, employment, income, housing, education, crime and access to basic services. For the analysis, Scotland is divided into small zones and each is given a rating for each of the measures. These ratings are used to rank each zone on a worst to best basis from 1 (most deprived) to 6976 (least deprived zone).
This page serves two purposes:
- a link to individual local authority SIMD results with summary tables, charts, data downloads and deprivation hot spot maps.
- a comparison between local authorities performance against each of the individual measures, see tables below.
Local Authority SIMD Pages Links
Aberdeen City Social Deprivation
Aberdeenshire Social Deprivation
Angus Social Deprivation
Argyll And Bute Social Deprivation
City Of Edinburgh Social Deprivation
Clackmannanshire Social Deprivation
Dumfries And Galloway Social Deprivation
Dundee City Social Deprivation
East Ayrshire Social Deprivation
East Dunbartonshire Social Deprivation
East Lothian Social Deprivation
East Renfrewshire Social Deprivation
Falkirk Social Deprivation
Fife Social Deprivation
Glasgow City Social Deprivation
Highland Social Deprivation
Inverclyde Social Deprivation
Midlothian Social Deprivation
Moray Social Deprivation
Na H Eileanan Siar Social Deprivation
North Ayrshire Social Deprivation
North Lanarkshire Social Deprivation
Orkney Islands Social Deprivation
Perth And Kinross Social Deprivation
Renfrewshire Social Deprivation
Scottish Borders Social Deprivation
Shetland Islands Social Deprivation
South Ayrshire Social Deprivation
South Lanarkshire Social Deprivation
Stirling Social Deprivation
West Dunbartonshire Social Deprivation
West Lothian Social Deprivation
Distribution of overall Ranking by local authority population
For more detailed report follow this link to this website
Figure 1: The numbers of citizens living in deprived zones in each of Scotland’s local councils by decile group. Deep purple, Decile 1 – the most deprived; dark green, Decile 10 – the least deprived.
It is important to note that not all households within a zone will have the same level of deprivation and deprived areas and relatively affluent areas can be located within the same street / location.
For details of the oversight and methodology of the data collection used by the Scottish Government please see:
https://www.gov.scot/collections/scottish-index-of-multiple-deprivation-2020/
Comparative Tables
The data for these tables is based on the percentage of the local authority’s population for each measure that live in its zones that are in the three most deprived deciles in Scotland. Rank one equates to the the authority with the highest percentage of residents in deprived areas and Rank 32 represents the least deprived.
For example, Glasgow City is ranked 2nd for Overall Deprivation Rank but is 32st for Access which reflects its degree of deprivation overall but that its citizens have excellent access to services.
Table 1: Overall Rank
Table 3: Health
Table 4: Employment
Table 5: Housing
Table 6: Education
Table 7: Crime
Table 8: Access
