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Oldham local authority · 2025

Deprivation in context

36.8

IMD 2025 deprivation score (higher = more deprived).

11th most deprived of 296 district-level authorities

Also: 9th most deprived of 153 upper-tier authorities

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

England: 21.8 · 2025

healthcards · Oldham · 2025

What this means

In 2025 Oldham ranked 11th most deprived of 296 district-level authorities, with an IMD score of 36.8 against an England average of 21.8. In the separate upper-tier comparison, it ranked 9th most deprived of 153 upper-tier authorities. The Index of Multiple Deprivation blends income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and the living environment.

Primary comparison: Oldham is 11th most deprived of 296 district-level authorities. Separate upper-tier comparison: 9th most deprived of 153 upper-tier authorities.

Recorded value (Oldham)

  1. 2025: 36.8

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Source & provenance

Indicator:
Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025) (ID 94240)
Source:
MHCLG, English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Area:
Oldham (E08000004), 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.