Welsh index of multiple deprivation 2025: deprivation in rural and urban areas
Publication Year
2026
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises output from the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2025. The WIMD is the Welsh Government’s official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales, designed to identify those small areas where there are the highest concentrations of several different types of deprivation. Specifically analyses patterns of deprivation in rural and urban areas.
Document History
Document type: statistics. First published: 1 July 2026.
Publisher Information
Welsh Government
The Welsh Government is the devolved government for Wales. They publish a number of strategies, policies, consultation papers, circulars, leaflets and posters. Previously known as Welsh Assembly Government.
