Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Poverty Areas in Scotland

The 10 most-deprived areas in Scotland:

  • Greenock Town Centre and East Central, Inverclyde
  • Carntyne West and Haghill, Glasgow City
  • Paisley Ferguslie, Renfrewshire (datazone S01012068)
  • Alloa South and East, Clackmannanshire
  • Buckhaven, Denbeath and Muiredge, Fife
  • Cliftonville, North Lanarkshire
  • Paisley Ferguslie, Renfrewshire (datazone S01012067)
  • Inverness Merkinch, Highland
  • Linlathen and Midcraigie, Dundee City
  • North Barlanark and Easterhouse South, Glasgow City

The 10 least-deprived areas:

  • Stockbridge, City of Edinburgh
  • West End North, Aberdeen City
  • Midstocket, Aberdeen City (datazone S01006559)
  • Marchmont West, City of Edinburgh
  • Midstocket, Aberdeen City (datazone S01006561)
  • Blackhall, City of Edinburgh
  • South Castlehill and Thorn, East Dunbartonshire
  • Morningside, City of Edinburgh
  • West End South, Aberdeen City
  • Netherlee, East Renfrewshire
The most-deprived areas for each criteria:
  • Income - Falkirk town centre and Callendar Park
  • Employment - Glasgow's Shettleston north
  • Health - Glasgow's Possil Park
  • Education - Craigneuk, in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire
  • Access - Rannoch and Aberfeldy, in Perth and Kinross
  • Crime - South area of Glasgow city centre
  • Housing - Part of Strathbungo, on the south side of Glasgow
Those locations coloured dark red are in the most-deprived 10% in Scotland. Dark blue represents the least-deprived 10%. The maps below show the colour of each data zone graded from dark red through orange to yellow, light blue and dark blue. 







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