1. Overall Deprivation (IMD)

Cottingley Hall Estate is highly deprived compared to both the national and city averages.

• National Rank: It ranks 842nd out of 32,844 LSOAs in England. This places it in the top 3% most deprived neighbourhoods in the country.

• Leeds Rank: Out of the 482 LSOAs in Leeds, the Cottingley Hall Estate ranks as the 38th most deprived.

• Decile: It sits squarely in Decile 1 (the most deprived 10% nationally).

 

2. Domain Breakdown

The IMD calculates overall deprivation by combining several different "domains" (categories). The data reveals that the estate struggles heavily with economic, educational, and health metrics, but performs much better regarding housing access and living environment.

 

Here is how the estate ranks nationally across the key IMD domains:

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• Crime: Top 3% most deprived

• Education & Skills: Top 3% most deprived

• Income: Top 3% most deprived (35.6% of the residents in this specific LSOA are classified as income-deprived)

• Health & Disability: Top 5% most deprived.

• Employment: Top 5% most deprived (24.1% of the working-age population here is involuntarily excluded from the labour market)

• Living Environment: Top 40%

• Barriers to Housing & Services: Middle 50% 

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3. Child and Older Person Poverty

The IMD also includes supplementary indices looking specifically at vulnerable age groups:

• Child Poverty (IDACI): The estate is in the top 4% most deprived nationally. Specifically, 42.6% of children living on the Cottingley Hall Estate live in income-deprived families.

• Older People Poverty (IDAOPI): The estate is in the top 15% most deprived nationally (Decile 2), with 30.1% of older residents experiencing income deprivation.