SIMD 2012 Summary

The 2012 version of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation was released on 18th December 2012.  The Index is a composite of several separate datasources that cover the 6,505 datazones in Scotland, 694 of which are in Glasgow.  The data is grouped into seven categories based on income; employment; health; education; skills & training; housing; crime and access to services.

The main headlines for Glasgow are
  • the most deprived area of Glasgow is Possil Park and is the second most deprived in Scotland (an area in Ferguslie Park in Renfrewshire is the most deprived);
  • the least deprived area in Glasgow is in Hyndland, and the least deprived in Scotland is in Colinton in Edinburgh;
  • compared with the 2009 SIMD, 25 datazones moved out of deprivation (21,644 persons), 12 datazones moved into deprivation (9,145 persons), leaving a net change of 13 datazones (12,499 persons);
  • the overall change in Glasgow can be expressed by the SIMD ranking of the median datazone in the city, which moved from 801 in the SIMD04 to 1068 in the SIMD06, to 1287 in the SIMD09, and to 1362 in the SIMD12;
  • the convention has been that datazones in the bottom 15% (the 976 most deprived datazones in Scotland) have been classified as deprived, so on this basis 289 datazones in Glasgow are deprived, covering 235,365 persons or 39.3% of the city's population;
  • of Glasgow's 694 datazones 139 increased their position by 250 places or more when compared with the 2009 SIMD while 74 decreased their position by 250 or more;
  • areas making the greatest improvement were those linked to major demolition projects and rebuilding.  Putting them to one side, major improvements were seen in areas like Craigton;
  • areas losing position included areas such as Hillington.
As the median score in Glasgow has continued to increase, the results show that Glasgow is continuing to reduce its share of Scotland's overall deprivation.  Other local authorities, namely East Ayrshire, Fife and North Lanarkshire, increased their datazones in the bottom 15%, in comparison to the 2009 results.

On the other hand, a substantial part of Glasgow has been unaffected by these changes.  125 datazones in Glasgow in 2012 were also in the 5% most deprived datazones in all four SIMDs in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2012.  The impression is that as the majority of the city moves away from these datazones, levels of inequality are likely to increase.

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