Residents in a Nottinghamshire town said they were 'shocked' after hearing the area was among the most deprived in Nottinghamshire. The data, collected from the 2021 census, shows the south west of Newark has one of the highest rates of deprivation in Nottinghamshire at 0.6% across the four categories of education, employment, health and housing.
A household deprived in employment is when any member of the household, who is not a full-time student, is either unemployed or disabled, whereas a household is deprived in the housing dimension if the household is overcrowded, in a shared dwelling or has no central heating. Additionally, a household is classified as deprived in education if nobody has at least a level 2 in education, and nobody aged 16 to 18 is a full-time student, Meanwhile, a household is deprived in health if any member is classed as disabled.
Whilst 0.6% of households may seem low, most areas of Nottinghamshire have 0% or 0.1% of households deprived in all four areas. However, when considering how many households in the south west of Newark are deprived in at least one of these four categories, the total rises to 36%. Households deprived in two categories is 17.6% and households affected by three categories is 6.3%.
