Poverty within the UK is particularly concentrated in Wales. While the relative income-poverty rate for the UK stood at 16.8% in 2014, the same poverty rate for Wales stood at 23% in the same year.
The latest three-year averages show the North East of England had the highest poverty rate of all regions in 2018-21 at 26%.
London has the highest rate of poverty, with over one in four (27%) people in poverty. A predominant driver of this is tenure mix and the high cost of housing; over half of Londoners live in rented accommodation, of whom four in ten are in poverty, with half of these in poverty only after housing costs.
Ethnic minorities face high poverty rates in the UK. In 2021/22, poverty rates were highest for people in households where the head of the household is from the Pakistani or Bangladeshi ethnic groups and lowest for those from White ethnic groups.
The county of Cornwall is one of the most deprived in the UK, with a high level of poverty and social deprivation. Only a third of the county's population can afford to travel to the beach, despite the fact that the county has a population of more than a million people.
The constituency of Birmingham Hodge Hill, a densely populated area on the eastern edge of the city, has the unfortunate position of being one of the most deprived in England.
It shares its name with the Biblical paradise, whose sole human inhabitants were Adam and Eve. And it seems similar solitude can be found in Eden, Cumbria, the most sparsely populated local authority area of England and Wales.
Low pay is defined as the value that is two-thirds of median hourly earnings and high pay is defined as the value that is 1.5 times median hourly earnings. For example, median hourly earnings for all employees in 2022 are £14.77, therefore low-pay employees are anyone earning below two-thirds of £14.77, which is £9.85.
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The richest neighbourhoods in the UK are all located in London, with the areas of Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham topping the list. In October, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its latest data based on the total gross disposable household income (GDHI) across the country in 2020.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has ranked the whole of the UK based on gross disposable household income (GDHI), the amount of money households have after paying tax and receiving benefits, and Nottingham is at the bottom of the list.
Scotland currently has 19% of households living in poverty, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said. This compares to a rate of 24% in Wales and 22% in England.
In 2017, the persistent poverty rate for the UK was 7.8% – the eighth lowest in the European Union and 3.5 percentage points lower than the EU28 average rate of 11.3%. Among EU member states, Czechia has the lowest persistent poverty rate, while Romania has the highest – 4.4% and 19.1%.
'Lack of opportunities' major factor as Nottingham labelled UK's poorest place. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently ranked the whole of the UK based on gross disposable household income (GDHI), and Nottingham is at the bottom of the list.
When the town's tourist industry declined in the 1970s, its rows of B&Bs near the seafront became derelict or were poorly converted into houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). These are mainly run by absentee landlords who have a poor track record of maintenance.
The income poverty rate varies substantially between ethnic groups: Bangladeshis (65%), Pakistanis (55%) and black Africans (45%) have the highest rates; black Caribbeans (30%), Indians (25%), white Other (25%) and white British (20%) have the lowest rates.
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Significant differences in activity levels remained among ethnic groups, with people that identified as White British still most likely to be physically active (47.7%), and those that identified as Black (35.7%), Other (38.0%) or Asian (38.7%) least likely to be active.
Median income for non-retired households decreased by 0.3% in FYE 2022, from £34,100 to £34,000, following a 1.0% increase in the previous year, with an average annual growth of 1.7% in the 10 years leading up to 2022 (FYE 2013 to FYE 2022).
The UK minimum wage per hour that a worker in the United Kingdom should get depends on their age and whether or not they are an apprentice. The minimum salary in the UK per month was fixed for the year 2021 at €1,708.7; therefore, the per year salary is 20,504 euros.
The average wage that was seen as a sum on which people could live comfortably is £16,300 more than the £33,000 median annual pay for full-time employees in the tax year ending in April 2022, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.
It shares its name with the Biblical paradise, whose sole human inhabitants were Adam and Eve. And it seems similar solitude can be found in Eden, Cumbria, the most sparsely populated local authority area of England and Wales.
The highest county is Lincolnshire (93%) followed by Nottinghamshire, Norfolk and Worcestershire, all above 92%.