The most up-and-coming areas in Birmingham: see where your neighbourhood ranks as every district listed

If you’re looking for somewhere to live in Birmingham, it’s understandable to want to know where the up-and-coming areas of the city are.

It’s a question the England and Wales census has helped us to answer.

One of its results is a measure of household deprivation. By comparing the scores from the 2011 census with those from the 2021 census, we can see which neighbourhoods are less deprived than they were before.

There are lots of possible ways to measure household deprivation, and the method used by the Office for National Statistics doesn’t take income into account. Instead, it looks at four different measures: unemployment, low qualification levels, poor health and bad housing.

Across England and Wales as a whole, more than half of households (52%) were deprived in at least one of these four possible ways when the census took place in 2021 - that’s 12.8 million households.

But this is a fall from the decade before, when the figure was 58%. The census also divides England and Wales into more than 7,000 smaller areas of between 5,000 and 15,000 residents, called middle-layer super output areas.

For each of these areas, it publishes how many households were deprived in at least one of its four measures.

The most upcoming neighbourhoods in Birmingham

Here’s where every neighbourhood in Birmingham ranks - with the most up-and-coming listed as number one, and the least at 130.

The first percentage listed after the area name shows the number of households in the neighbourhood which were not deprived in 2011, and the second percentage shows the number of households in the neighbourhood which were not deprived a decade later in 2021.

As you can see, deprivation levels are falling fastest in Central Birmingham. 62.2% of households in the area were not deprived in 2021, an improvement on 2011 when the figure was just 32.2%.

Five Ways North is in second place. 44.7% of households were not deprived in 2021, an improvement on 2011 when the figure was 22.7%. In the Digbeth area 48.2% of households were not deprived in 2021, an improvement on 2011 when the figure was 26.7%.

See where every neighbourhood ranks in our list below.