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East Sussex county · 2025

Deprivation in context

21.2

IMD 2025 deprivation score (higher = more deprived).

70th least deprived of 153 upper-tier authorities

Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025) · Persons, All ages

England: 21.8 · 2025

healthcards · East Sussex · 2025

What this means

In 2025 East Sussex ranked 70th least deprived of 153 upper-tier authorities, with an IMD score of 21.2 against an England average of 21.8. The Index of Multiple Deprivation blends income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and the living environment.

East Sussex is 70th least deprived of 153 upper-tier authorities; no single district-level rank applies to this county area.

Recorded value (East Sussex)

  1. 2025: 21.2

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Source & provenance

Indicator:
Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025) (ID 94240)
Source:
MHCLG, English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Area:
East Sussex (E10000011), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:
2025; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:
Persons, All ages
Note:
Population-weighted average of small-area scores.

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Caveats

  • A composite score, not a rate — it has no confidence interval and no single-year trend.
  • Averages across each local authority hide wide differences between its neighbourhoods.
  • The prominent rank is the official MHCLG rank of average score among 296 district-level authorities where the area's boundary appears in that table. The separate 153-place comparison uses upper-tier authorities.
  • County councils contain several district-level authorities, so no single 296-place district rank applies to a whole county; those cards use the upper-tier comparison only.
  • Ranks 1–70 are worded most deprived; ranks 71–153 are reversed and worded least deprived. This is a display convention, not an official deprivation category.
  • Higher score means more deprived. Stated factually, not as judgement.

Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.