ManchesterWorld has already looked at the areas across the city where the 2021 Census says deprivation has fallen most compared to the previous survey. But what about the picture across the rest of Greater Manchester?
We’ve now looked at the same data from the latest national survey and picked out the two neighbourhoods in each of the city-region’s other nine boroughs which have seen the biggest increases in households which are not suffering from any form of deprivation.
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.
Neighbourhoods are officially known as middle-layer super output areas, which have between 5,000 and 15,000 residents living in them. The Census divides England and Wales into more than 7,000 MSOAs publishes how many households were deprived in at least one of its four measures for each of them.
There are of course exceptions, but it is notable across Greater Manchester how many of the biggest reductions in household deprivation happened in areas where it was extremely high to start with in 2011. Indeed some of the largest improvements came in areas where only around one in five households was not struggling with some kind of deprivation just over a decade ago.
The flipside of this, though, is that this data shows that in many areas of Greater Manchester, including those which are improving, there are still many people struggling, with more than half of households in these places still deprived in one of the four areas the ONS identifies.
Here are the areas for each part of Greater Manchester.
1. Hall i’th’ Wood
Hall i’th’ Wood saw the biggest reduction in Bolton, with 28.3% of households not in deprivation in 2011 but 38.6% of homes not deprived by 2021. Photo: Google Maps Photo: Google Maps
2. Tonge
In Tonge 34.3% of households were not deprived in the 2011 Census, but this had risen to 40.9% by the time of the 2021 survey. Photo: Google Maps Photo: Google Maps
3. Bank Top and Radcliffe Ees
The biggest reduction in deprivation in Bury was in Bank Top and Radcliffe Ees, where 46.3% of households were not suffering any measure of deprivation in the 2021 Census, compared to 38.3% in 2011. Photo: Google Maps Photo: Google Maps
4. Prestwich Central
In Prestwich Central just over half of all households (51.6%) are not facing any kind of deprivation according to the 2021 Census, an increase from 43.4% in 2011. Photo: Google Maps Photo: Google Maps