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High Street, West Bromwich in the borough of Sandwell.<\/p>\nFour West Midlands areas named in the top 20 deprived parts of EnglandHigh Street, West Bromwich in the borough of Sandwell.<\/p>\n
A number of towns and cities in the Midlands are ranked among the most deprived in England.<\/p>\n
These areas were towards the top of the national deprivation list, where daily life is often a struggle for many households.<\/p>\n
It means on average, more people living in these places are poorer and find it harder to put food on the table and keep their heads above water each month.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Phone charging habit nearly everyone has ‘one of worst things you can do’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Get our local newsletters like Black Country News, MySolihull and MySuttonColdfield straight to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Birmingham<\/a>, Sandwell<\/a>, Wolverhampton and Walsall<\/a> are all in the top 20 for most deprived parts of England, according to a recent ONS study.<\/p>\n Here, more than one in five people are classed as income-deprived.<\/p>\n It’s a list dominated by parts of the West Midlands and north of England.<\/p>\n This can include areas with high levels of unemployment, as well as low earnings.<\/p>\n Areas like Birmingham and Sandwell often appear on these lists and have longstanding issues with deprivation and child poverty.<\/p>\n The list was based on the proportion of residents who suffer income deprivation, meaning they experience hardship because of a lack of money.<\/p>\n Birmingham was 7th on the list, followed by Sandwell in 9th, Wolverhampton in 11th and Walsall in 16th.<\/p>\n The national list included 316 local authority areas, highlighting just how tough the worst-off have it in these parts of the West Midlands.<\/p>\n The ONS says: “Economic inequalities are not just regional – but can occur between neighbourhoods too.<\/p>\n “This (study) looks at levels of income deprivation, which is based on the proportion of people in an area who are out of work or on low earnings.<\/p>\n They continued: “In more income-deprived profiles, areas have neighbourhoods towards the deprived end of the scale.<\/p>\n “Areas matching this profile are mostly urban areas, including in Greater London, around Birmingham, and in the north east.”<\/p>\n “In Birmingham, 22.2% of the population was income-deprived in 2019.<\/p>\n “Of the 316 local authorities in England (excluding the Isles of Scilly), Birmingham is ranked 7th most income-deprived.”<\/p>\n