Economy resources

The Southampton Economic Assessment was updated in March 2021. A slide set was produced updating the key messages for the city. This assessment differs slightly to previous assessments, as there is a particular focus on the economic impact of coronavirus on different aspects of the Southampton economy. An interactive dashboard was also developed alongside the refresh.

This section contains archived reports from previous Southampton Economic Assessments. For the latest report and data on the economy in the city, see the Southampton Economic Assessment 2021 above.

This work highlights need and inequalities among Southampton neighbourhoods across a number of key theme areas, including demography, children’s social care, youth crime and violence, healthy start, child health and need, adult health and need, education and poverty and deprivation.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish a range of statistics on the UK economy each year including data on productivity, businesses, jobs and earnings. Data is published annually and is available at local authority level which enables local benchmarking and trend analysis to be conducted. Links to some of the most valuable datasets and analysis are provided below.

In order to better understand and track the economic impacts of COVID-19 on our communities, a time series Power BI dashboard of maps has been produced illustrating the change in the percentage of the working age population claiming Universal credit and Job Seeker Allowance claimants.

A look at the data behind the headlines, how it was collected and what it can and can’t be used for.

Benchmarking and trend data on average property and rental prices, housing stock and fuel poverty in Southampton can be found in the data compendium below. Also available below is the 2018 Southampton Homelessness Prevention data compendium which was developed to better understand homelessness in Southampton and determine the extent to which the population in the district is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Data on the deprivation and poverty in Southampton, including the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2015), child poverty, earnings and fuel poverty, can be found in the data compendium, which can be downloaded below. In addition, there are links to Fingertips tools produced by Public Health England (PHE), which bring together data indicators on deprivation and poverty at local authority level. These can be used to explore the data over time and between comparator areas.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) published the latest Indices of Deprivation (IoD) in 2019. The Indices of Deprivation (2019) provides a relative ranking of areas across the country according to their level of deprivation and is the primary source of information on deprivation in England. The IMD measures deprivation at neighbourhood level known as Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs), which contain approximately 1,500 people, and ranks each of the 32,844 LSOAs in England by their level of deprivation and splits them into 10 equal groups known as deciles. The original IMD data produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) can be downloaded below along with a summary slide set. In addition a series of maps are also available below illustrating the deprivation decile assignment for each of Southampton’s 148 LSOAs for each domain of deprivation, along with an interactive mapping tool produced by MHCLG, which allows the data for the whole of England to be explored and compared with 2015.

This section contains archived content from the IMD (2015), for the latest data on deprivation in the city, see the IMD (2019) above. The Indices of Deprivation (2015) provides a relative ranking of areas across the country according to their level of deprivation and is the primary source of information on deprivation in England. The original IMD data produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) can be downloaded below along with a report, summary slide set and series of maps for each domain of deprivation.

This section contains archived content from the IMD (2010), for the latest data on deprivation in the city, see the IMD (2019) above. The Department of Communities and Local Government published the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (IMD) in March 2011. The IMD 2010 provided a relative ranking of areas across England according to their level of deprivation and was based on the concept that deprivation consists of more than just poverty. The majority of the data underpinning the IMD (2010) comes from 2008 although some data comes from other time points such as the 2001 census. The IMD (2010) has now been superseded by the IMD (2015) and IMD (2019) which should be used in most instances. However, documents and data relating to IMD (2010) are provided below for comparative purposes.