Levelling up happened — but only in percentages
Cross England's official deprivation index with official house-price data and one clean result appears: since 2020, the poorest areas' prices have grown twice as fast as the richest areas' — and the cash gap between them still widened.
Since April 2020, average prices in the most deprived fifth of English local authorities rose 33.4%. In the least deprived fifth: 16.3%. The gradient is monotonic — each step down the deprivation scale bought faster growth. But in pounds, the gap between the two ends still grew, from £189,797 to £197,428.
“Deprived” here means the most deprived fifth of English local authorities on the official Index of Multiple Deprivation.
Methodology & use
We average the neighbourhood-level (LSOA) scores from the English Indices of Deprivation — the 2025 edition, on 2021 census geography — to each English local authority, rank the authorities matchable across both datasets into fifths, and cross them with the official UK House Price Index average price, April 2020 vs the latest month. Percentage growth and cash gaps are both shown deliberately — they tell opposite stories, and both are true. Wales is excluded (its deprivation index is not comparable). Free to quote and republish with attribution to Housometer and a link; regional cuts or comment same-day via contact.
Sources: MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation; HM Land Registry UK House Price Index (© Crown copyright), OGL v3.0. Analysis: Housometer, July 2026. See also how we work with data.
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