Income Deprivation

Income Deprivation across Glasgow neighbourhoods

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20.4% of Glasgow's population was defined as living in income deprivation based on the 2020 revision of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD 2020). Across Glasgow’s 56 neighbourhoods there is approximately a seven-fold variation in income deprivation, the level of which varies from 4.8% of the population in Kelvindale and Kelvinside to 37.3% in Parkhead and Dalmarnock.

Further information on neighbourhoods in Glasgow are available in our profile section.

Notes

Income deprivation, as defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), is a measure of the percentage of the population (adults and their dependents) in receipt of Income Support, Employment and Support Allowance, Job Seekers Allowance, Guaranteed Pension Credits, Child and Working Tax Credits, or Universal Credit (excluding those in the category 'working with no requirements'), or in Tax Credit families on low income. 

SIMD – Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation provides a relative measure of deprivation based on indicators from 7 domains – income, employment, health, education, access, housing, crime. The index identifies multiple deprivation for 6505 small areas (data zones) across Scotland.  There have been six versions of SIMD to date. The initial index of 2004 (SIMD 2004) has been revised five times in 2006 (SIMD 2006), 2009 (SIMD 2009), 2012 (SIMD 2012), 2016 (SIMD 2016) and 2020 (SIMD 2020).  For more information go to the SIMD site.