If you’re looking to move house, you might be wondering where the up-and-coming areas of Newcastle-upon-Tyne are and it is a question the England and Wales census can help us to answer.
One of its results is a measure of household deprivation. By comparing the scores from the 2011 census with those from the 2021 census, we can see which neighbourhoods are less deprived than they were before.
There are lots of possible ways to measure household deprivation, and the method used by the Office for National Statistics doesn’t take income into account.
Instead, it looks at four different measures: unemployment, low qualification levels, poor health and bad housing.
Across England and Wales as a whole, more than half of households (52%) were deprived in at least one of these four possible ways when the census took place in 2021 - that’s 12.8 million households.
Here are the areas of Newcastle where the proportion of deprived households fell the most between 2011 and 2021 – the images used are for illustration purposes only.
1. Scotswood
In the Scotswood area, 39.1% of households were not deprived in 2021, an improvement on 2011 when the figure was 28%. | Google Maps
2. Blakelaw
In the Blakelaw area, 39.4% of households were not deprived in 2021, an improvement on 2011 when the figure was 28.3%. | Google Maps
3. Walkergate
In the Walkergate area, 42.5% of households were not deprived in 2021, an improvement on 2011 when the figure was 33.2%. | Google Maps
4. Walker North
In the Walker North area, 30.3% of households were not deprived in 2021, an improvement on 2011 when the figure was 21.7%. | Google Maps