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Deprivation: key points

The following points are summarised from the results of the most recent (2009) version of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD).

(Background note: The SIMD is the Scottish Government's official tool for identifying small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland. The SIMD provides a relative ranking of 6,505 small areas (datazones) across Scotland from the most deprived (ranked one) to the least deprived in Scotland (ranked 6,505)   Changes to the SIMD methodology mean that only the employment domain is directly comparable between SIMD 2006 and SIMD 2009.

  • The 15% most deprived datazones in SIMD 2009 contain 36 per cent (312,845) of Scotland's income deprived population and 32 per cent (126,380) of Scotland's employment deprived working age population.
  • Glasgow City contains almost half of Scotland's 5% most deprived areas and nearly a third of Scotland's 15% most deprived areas.
  • The most deprived datazone in the SIMD 2009 is in the Parkhead/Barrowfield area in the East of Glasgow. The least deprived datazone is in Banchory, Aberdeenshire. Of the five most deprived datazones in the SIMD 2009, four are in Glasgow City and one is in Renfrewshire.
  • The five Local Authorities with the largest proportion of their datazones in the 15% most deprived are Glasgow (43.1%), Inverclyde (39.1%), Dundee (30.7%), West Dunbartonshire (26.3%) and North Ayrshire (25.1%).
  • The next update to the SIMD is planned for 2012.

 

Section updates:

  • The last major update of this section was completed in February 2010.  
  • The next major update is due to be carried out by end February 2011.