JSNA – People – Deprivation

Last Updated: October 2025

The Deprivation Tool brings together all publicly available data regarding deprivation within Barnet and acts as a source for deprivation-related queries and visualisations. The tool includes data primarily at the LSOA level. Data sources for the tool include the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2019 and 2025, the Annual Deprivation Index (ADI), and the Ethnic Group Deprivation Index (EGDI).

Headline figures

• The IMD 2025 indicates that overall Barnet has become relatively more deprived since 2019. However, deprivation varies at the LSOA level in Barnet, both in terms of overall deprivation and in terms of different types of deprivation, including crime, employment, education, and health deprivation.
• The amount of a ward’s population living in the top 30% most deprived areas of the country according to the IMD 2025 varies by ward. Cricklewood has the highest proportion (100% of its population), closely followed by Burnt Oak (83% of its population) and Colindale North (78% of its population).
• There are ethnic inequalities in deprivation within Barnet. The presence of this inequality varies by LSOA, with some LSOAs having almost no ethnic inequalities whilst other LSOAs have significant ethnic inequalities.

Narrative

Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025: The Indices of Deprivation are a unique measure of relative deprivation at LSOA level across England, based on seven different domains of deprivation: income, employment, education, health and disability, crime, barriers to housing and services, and the living environment. These domains combine to give an Overall Index of Multiple Deprivation. Deprivation is represented using deciles, with 1 representing the most deprived areas and 10 the least deprived areas.

Overall, Barnet ranks as more deprived than 56% of local authority districts in England. Looking at the regional picture, Barnet is ranked the 11th least deprived out of the 33 London Boroughs. Within Barnet, deprivation differs at the LSOA level. Barnet has one LSOA with a decile of 1 (LSOA 026B in Colindale North), highlighting a small but significant area of acute need. 23% of LSOAs in Barnet have an overall IMD decile of 1, 2, or 3 and thus represent more deprived areas. On the other end of the spectrum, 21% of LSOAs have an overall IMD decile of 8, 9, or 10 and thus represent less deprived areas.

The borough is relatively more deprived in areas such as income, housing, and living environment. 70% of LSOAs have a Barriers to Housing and Services domain decile of 1, 2, or 3 thus suggesting Barnet is relatively more deprived in terms of this domain compared to the rest of England. On the other hand, Barnet performs better in education and health and disability compared to many other areas – 70% of LSOAs have a Health Deprivation and Disability domain decile of 8, 9, or 10.

Annual Deprivation Index: The Annual Deprivation Index is composed of three main domains: crime, health, and unemployment. Crime impacts deprivation differently across Barnet. For example, drug offences seemingly occur in hotspots and are more prevalent in the West of the borough than other areas, whereas burglary offences occur relatively evenly across Barnet. The same can be said for health conditions. In terms of the unemployment domain, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on deprivation can be clearly seen. Across Barnet, the percentage of the population claiming Jobseekers Allowance or Universal Credit rose between 2019 and 2020 and rose once again in 2021, before just starting to fall again in 2022.

Population Deprivation: The amount of a ward’s population living in the top 30% most deprived areas of England varies by ward. Cricklewood has the highest proportion (100% of its population), closely followed by Burnt Oak (83% of its population) and Colindale North (78% of its population). Seven wards have none of their population living in these nationally top 30% deprived areas (Finchley Church End, Garden Suburb, High Barnet, Mill Hill, Totteridge & Woodside, West Finchley, and Whetstone). Colindale North is the only ward in Barnet with any percentage of its residents living in the top 10% most deprived areas of England, with 14% of the ward population living in such areas.

Ethnic Group Deprivation Index: There are ethnic inequalities in deprivation within Barnet. The presence of this inequality varies by LSOA. 31 LSOAs (representing 14% of all LSOAs in Barnet) have low amounts of ethnic inequality in deprivation, represented by an EGDI value between 0 and 0.2. Conversely, 8 LSOAs (4% of all LSOAs in Barnet) have significant ethnic inequality in deprivation, with EGDI values between 0.8 and 1.

The ethnic group that is most deprived varies by LSOA too. In 52 LSOA’s, the most deprived ethnic group is those who identify as Other Ethnic Group. White British is the second most common most deprived group (49 LSOAs), followed by Asian Other (35 LSOAs) and White Other (22 LSOAs). On the other hand, Asian Indian is the most common least deprived group, being the least deprived ethnic group in 102 LSOAs.

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