Spatially concentrated deprivation in England: an empirical assessment

International audienceThe spatial concentration of deprivation is a well documented phenomenon and is of interest to a diverse constituency of academics and policy makers. Despite the widely accepted view of concentrated deprivation as a problem, however, the empirical basis for understanding it remains under-developed. Therefore, an attempt is made here to provide an empirical assessment of spatially concentrated deprivation in England, using a spatial statistical approach and a policy-relevant deprivation measure. More localised analyses are also conduced for London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. The results demonstrate that deprivation (and affluence) in England is highly concentrated, that it varies significantly over space and that spatial patterns persist, stubbornly, through time