Official statistics show areas where almost all children live in income-deprived homes

Almost 100% of children in more than 70 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families, according to new measures that factor in the impact of soaring rents.

- Michael Goodier Patrick Butler Carmen Aguilar García

Changes to official measures revealed there are 73 neighbourhoods where, in effect, all children live in low-income households. Of these, 31 were in inner London boroughs with high housing costs such as Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Haringey and Westminster.

The new indices of multiple deprivation confirm that attempts at "levelling up" have failed to shift high levels of deprivation in so-called left-behind towns and cities in the Midlands and north of England.

Blackpool, Middlesbrough, Burnley, Manchester and Birmingham were the top five most deprived local authority areas. At a neighbourhood level, Jaywick in Clacton, Essex, the constituency of Reform's leader, Nigel Farage, topped the ranking for the fourth time in a row.

The recalculation of income deprivation measures to recognise the effects of high housing costs in London represents a dynamic change in the picture of deprivation, and may have politically charged ramifications for local authority and NHS budgets across the country.

The deprivation indices rank neighbourhoods across different aspects of everyday life - income (including income deprivation affecting children), employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services, and the environment - and combines them into one score.