Deprivation in Cambridgeshire - The English Indices of Deprivation 2004
Cambridgeshire, despite being a relatively wealthy county overall, does see some quite large variations in levels of deprivation at the local level. Deprivation in the county is mainly concentrated in parts of rural north Fenland and Wisbech, the Oxmoor Estate in Huntingdon and parts of north and east Cambridge City.
The English Indices of Deprivation 2004 (ID 2004) identifies ‘pockets’ of deprivation at the sub-ward level. The geographies used in this report are Super Output Areas (SOAs) which contain approximately 1,500 people. It should be noted that the ID 2004 measures an area’s relative deprivation and is not an absolute estimation.
The ID 2004 measures deprivation in seven different ways. These seven ‘domains’ are then combined into an overall measure of deprivation, the Index of Multiple Deprivation or IMD. The individual domains are as follows:
· Income deprivation
· Employment deprivation
· Health deprivation and disability
· Education, skills and training deprivation
· Barriers to housing and services
· Living environment deprivation
· Crime
The report “Deprivation in Cambridgeshire – The English Indices of Deprivation 2004” includes full details of all the above domains, including the IMD and presents the results in district, county, regional and national contexts. Detailed maps are provided enabling quick and easy location of areas of interest.
The report is attached in pdf form by section under Publications. The tables include full details of each component domain and the maps show the county's wards and the region's local authority areas.