For the first time in six years, the Government has produced street-by-street rankings of socio-economic deprivationA bird's eye view of Bristol's least and most deprived areas, according to the new 2025 England deprivation index. It's the first time since 2019 that the Government has produced a deep-dive into levels of deprivation or affluence, looking at income, employment, health, education, housing and poverty. On the left is an area of Henleaze that is ranked as the least deprived in Bristol - and in the top 0.3 per cent least deprived in England. On the right is an area of Hartcliffe that is ranked as the most deprived in Bristol, and among the top 0.6 per cent most deprived in England A bird’s eye view of Bristol’s least and most deprived areas, according to the new 2025 England deprivation index. It’s the first time since 2019 that the Government has produced a deep-dive into levels of deprivation or affluence, looking at income, employment, health, education, housing and poverty. On the left is an area of Henleaze that is ranked as the least deprived in Bristol – and in the top 0.3 per cent least deprived in England. On the right is an area of Hartcliffe that is ranked as the most deprived in Bristol, and among the top 0.6 per cent most deprived in England (Image: Google Maps)

The stark inequality in Bristol has been laid bare again with the publication of the latest ‘deprivation index’ by the Government. It’s the first time in six years that new figures and rankings showing a snapshot of life in the city and across England have been published, and they show little, if any, improvement in the huge gaps between parts of Bristol revealed last in 2019.

The figures revealed by the Government show Bristol has some of the most affluent, well-off and least deprived neighbourhoods in England, as well as some of the most deprived areas in the country too. In fact, the most well-off area of the city – a neighbourhood in Henleaze, which is in the top 0.3 per cent more than 33,000 areas in England, is less than a mile from an area of Southmead that’s ranked in the lowest three per cent of most deprived areas in England.

The surveys and statistics looked at seven areas of life – from income and employment to health and disability, education, skills and training, barriers to housing, crime and the ‘living environment’ of streets, open spaces and parks. The results were weighted towards income and employment, and every single street and home was put into one of 33,755 neighbourhoods, each with around 1,500 people – much smaller than the large council ward areas surveys like this use.

Bristol has been divided into 268 of these neighbourhoods, which are often little more than half a dozen streets, and the results reveal the scale of inequality in the city, which has worsened since the last survey in 2019.

A view of Rudgewood Close in Hartcliffe. The cul-de-sac is in the heart of a Government statistical area known as 053E, which has been ranked as the 211th most deprived neighbourhood in England, out of more than 33,000A view of Rudgewood Close in Hartcliffe. The cul-de-sac is in the heart of a Government statistical area known as 053E, which has been ranked as the 211th most deprived neighbourhood in England, out of more than 33,000(Image: Google Maps)

Six of the eight most deprived areas of Bristol are in Hartcliffe, while the other two are in nearby Withywood and Inns Court. The most deprived area of Bristol, according to the Government’s ‘English indices of deprivation 2025’, is an area of Hartcliffe that stretches from Fulford Road up to the tower blocks on Bishport Avenue.

This area, known by the statisticians as ‘Bristol 053E’ is the 211th most deprived small neighbourhood in the country – putting it in the bottom 0.6 per cent of all the 33,755 neighbourhoods in England.

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Neighbouring areas, including an area around Morrisons in Hartcliffe to Crosscombe Drive, and another area around Maynard Road in the north of Hartcliffe are also well within the one per cent most deprived areas in England.

As well as Hartcliffe, much of Withywood, Knowle West, Barton Hill and Easton, as well as one small area in each of Redcliffe, Southmead and Henbury are all ranked in the bottom five per cent of areas of deprivation in the country.

But the most deprived neighbourhood in the Bristol area isn’t in Bristol at all. Two neighbourhoods that make up the Bournville Estate in Weston-super-Mare are also in the lowest one per cent of most deprived areas in England, and one of those, an area to the south and west of Bournville primary school, is the 86th most deprived neighbourhood in England.

Bibury Crescent in Henleaze, one of around half a dozen streets that make up a neighbourhood ranked as the least deprived in BristolBibury Crescent in Henleaze, one of around half a dozen streets that make up a neighbourhood ranked as the least deprived in Bristol in the 2025 England deprivation index figures(Image: Google Maps)

By contrast, many areas of Bristol are among the top one or two per cent least deprived in the country. The least deprived area of Bristol is a neighbourhood of a few streets either side of West Broadway in Henleaze, which scored the lowest in terms of income, crime, employment, education, environment, housing and health than anywhere else in Bristol.

In fact, there are only 103 other small areas in England that are better off and less deprived than this area of Henleaze, known as Bristol 011B.

That area is just to the south of Southmead Hospital, and is less than three-quarters of a mile from an area of Southmead itself, which is one of the most deprived three per cent of any area in the country.

Other areas in Henleaze are also among the lowest one per cent for socio-economic deprivation in the whole country, as are some neighbourhoods in Sneyd Park and Westbury-on-Trym.