Strategic Housing Market Assessment - North Devon District Council

SHMA: Torridge and North Devon Update
• This pattern is evident for JSA and Disabled claimants in Torridge, and for
ESA, Incapacity Benefits and Carers in both districts.
• Both findings reinforce the extent to which there are high levels of
dependence on low incomes in North Devon and Torridge.
Relative levels of deprivation
2.10 The English Indices of Deprivation 2010 are a relative measure of
deprivation showing whether one small area is more or less deprived than
another small area in England but not by how much. It is based on ONS
Lower Super Output Areas of which there are 32,482 in England. The
National Rank is used in the maps throughout this section and ranks all the
Domains of deprivation from 1 (most deprived) to 32,482 (least deprived). The
English Indices of Deprivation are able to show where there are pockets of
high relative deprivation within a local authority compared to other small areas
in England. The English Indices of Deprivation 2010 is made up as follows:
• Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
Domains
• Income Domain
• Employment Domain
• Health & Disability Domain
• Education, Skills and Training Domain
• Crime Domain
• Living Environment Domain
• Housing and Barriers to Services Domain
Sub-Domains
• Indoors Living Sub Domain
• Outdoors Living Sub Domain
• Wider Barriers Sub Domain
• Geographical Barriers Sub Domain
• Skills Sub Domain
• Children and Young People Sub Domain
Supplementary Income Indexes
• Income Deprivation for Older People Index
• Income Deprivation for Children Index
2.11 Although there is no single measure which enables England’s 326 district
local authorities to be compared, local authority District Summaries provide an
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