Grenfell Tower is located in Notting Dale Ward of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The denominator in which Grenfell Tower is located in the English Index of Multiple Deprivation, which measures deprivation in so-called Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) which consist on average of about 600 households and a population of 1,500 people is E01002880 (Kensington and Chelsea 005D).
- In 2015 the LSOA in which Grenfell Tower is located (E01002880) was ranked the 3,171th most deprived LSOA of the 32,844 LSOAs in England.
- The Grenfell Tower LSOA* is in the ten per cent (lowest decile) of the most multiply deprived LSOAs in England.
- The Grenfell Tower LSOA is ranked between the ninth and tenth per cent of the most deprived LSOAs in England. That is, its (rank 3,171) is located near the upper border (rank 3,284) of the 10 per cent most deprived LSOAs in England.
- There are 3, 170 LSOAs in England that are more deprived than the Grenfell LSOA.
- There are 29,673 LSOAs that are less deprived/more advantaged than the Grenfell Tower LSOA.
- The Grenfell Tower LSOA is the 11th most deprived LSOA in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
- The most deprived LSOA in the borough is ranked at 1,243 in the Multiple Deprivation Index whereas the Grenfell Tower LSOA is ranked at 3,171.
- There are 92 LSOAs in the borough of a total of 103 that are less disadvantaged/more advantaged than the Grenfell Tower LSOA.
- There are 12 LSOAs in the borough that are in the 8th decile of the least deprived/most advantaged and one LSOA in the ninth decile of the least deprived/most advantaged. The Borough does not have any LSOAs in the top decile of the least deprived/most advantaged LSOAs in England. (But see Table 2 below where this absence is due to less favourable rankings in deprivation domains which the wealthy can easily overcome through private provision.)
The Index of Multiple Deprivation is derived from a number of domains of deprivation – income, employment, education, skills and training, health and disability, crime, barriers to housing and services and living environment.
Deprivation by domain in the Grenfell Tower LSOA was ranked as follows where 1 is the most deprived of the English 32, 844 LSOAs. The table includes a column that shows where each domain ranking is placed in terms of the deciles of deprivation where 1 is the most deprived ten per cent of LSOAs in England.
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Table 1: The Grenfell Tower LSOA
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Domains of Deprivation |
LSOA Ranking by number of LSOAS (32,844 in total) where 1 is most deprived |
LSOA ranking by decile where 1 is most deprived decile |
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Income |
1,737 |
1 |
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Employment, |
3,507 |
2 |
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Education, skills and training |
14,500 |
5 |
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Health and disability |
9,256 |
3 |
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Crime |
12,709 |
4 |
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Barriers to housing and services |
378 |
1 |
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Living environment |
5,573 |
2 |
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Multiple Deprivation |
3,171 |
1 |
When looking at domains of deprivation for the Grenfell Tower LSOA of the seven domains five score a ranking higher (that is, relatively less deprived) than the overall multiple deprivation ranking of 3,171,
But two score well below it (that is more deprived). The ranking (378) for the deprivation domain of Barriers to Housing and Services puts the LSOA in the one per cent of the most deprived LSOAs in England for this domain.
Whereas the the ranking (1,737) for the deprivation domain of Income puts the Grenfell Tower LSOA in the five to six per cent range of the most deprived LSOAs in England for this domain.
Just for comparison sake it is worth listing the ‘deprivation’ domains of the least deprived LSOA in the borough - what I have here called 'King's Rd South' (see Map 2). This is LSOA number E01002903 and it is ranked at 26,751 and located in the ninth decile (where the tenth is the least deprived). The LSOA is to the south of the King’s Road and is bounded to the east by the Saatchi Gallery and to the west by Flood Street.
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Table 2: Kings Road South: Kensington and Chelsea’s least deprived/most advantaged LSOA (E01002903)
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Domains of Deprivation |
LSOA Ranking by number of LSOAS = 32,844 |
LSOA ranking by decile where 1 is most deprived decile |
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Income |
32,781 |
10 |
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Employment, |
32,806 |
10 |
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Education, skills and training |
31,667 |
10 |
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Health and disability |
32,841 |
10 |
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Crime |
13,131 |
4 |
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Barriers to housing and services |
16,043 |
5 |
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Living environment |
3745 |
2 |
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Multiple Deprivation |
26,751 |
9 |
The table above perhaps shows some perversity in the way that multiple deprivation is measured when it comes to the richest people in the UK. In the least deprived LSOA in Kensington and Chelsea the rankings for income, employment, education and health are all in the most advantaged decile and in the 96 to 97 per cent range of the least deprived. For income, employment and education the ranking are in the top one per cent of the most advantaged.
The overall deprivation ranking for the richest LSOA is brought down by its rankings in the deprivation domains of crime, barriers to housing and services and living environment.
Suffice it to say that the richest, most educated, most employed and nearly healthiest people in the country will surely have the resources to overcome these public failings with their own bespoke private provision.
Whereas those with some of the least favourable income and access to housing and services - vis. the Grenfell Tower local area - will be at an acute
disadvantage to overcome the multiple barriers to prosperity that face them.
Table 3 compares the deprivation domain rannking for the Grenfell Tower local area and that of the most advantaged in Kensington and Chelsea.
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Table 3: The Grenfell Tower local area compared by deprivation rankings to Kensington and Chelsea’s most advantaged local area by by deciles of deprivation/advantage where 1 = most deprived decile (10 per cent) of local areas in England
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Domains of Deprivation |
Grenfell Tower decile ranking where 1 is most deprived decile |
King’s Rd South ranking by decile where 10 is most advantaged decile |
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Income |
1 |
10 |
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Employment, |
2 |
10 |
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Education, skills and training |
5 |
10 |
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Health and disability |
3 |
10 |
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Crime |
4 |
4 |
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Barriers to housing and services |
1 |
5 |
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Living environment |
2 |
2 |
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Multiple Deprivation |
1 |
9 |
Note: *LSOA E01002880 is not called ‘the Grenfell Tower LSOA’ in the Index of Multiple Deprivation In England 2015 but I use it here as shorthand.
Sources:
For Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2015
For identification of LSOA number on map