North West Poverty Monitor 2024

Welcome to the North West Poverty Monitor, a resource which reveals the scale and nature of poverty across Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.

The Poverty Monitor is an easy-to-navigate tool which provides data across six themes, plus a page showing population estimates by ward and a page showing national data. It’s designed to equip you with the evidence you need to tackle socio-economic disadvantage in your own activities – from policy development, advocacy and campaigning through to writing funding applications and service design.

The data is presented through a combination of charts, maps and tables, including interactive visualisations so that you can identify and compare specific data. Most figures are provided at a local authority level, and, where possible, at a more local level (e.g. electoral ward, middle super output area and lower super output area).

Poverty & deprivation

Education

Fuel & food insecurity

Social security & debt

Housing & homelessness

Labour market

Population estimates

National poverty data

Which indicators have we chosen?

The data we have chosen to display is based on availability and on feedback we received on data shown on versions of our previous Greater Manchester Poverty Monitor. Data availability also affects the geographical level we are able to display data at. For many of the indicators, data is only available at a local authority level.

When was the data last updated?

The Poverty Monitor was updated in mid-April 2025. Reflecting the release of Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data for 2023/24 in March 2025, ward-level child poverty rates in the North West have been updated, as has the national poverty data. The latest North West data across several newly-added indicators, under the poverty & deprivation, social security & debt and labour market themes, has also been uploaded.

A note about ward level data

Some of the ward level data used in the Monitor was not available for new wards created following boundary changes that occurred in several areas of the North West in 2023. Therefore, data on ward level maps is mostly displayed using 2022 wards.