# Unequal in the everyday

> Deprivation, school absence, anxiety and healthy life expectancy illuminate different scales of inequality.

- Category: People
- Canonical: [https://londongraph.com/story/unequal-in-the-everyday](https://londongraph.com/story/unequal-in-the-everyday)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/story/unequal-in-the-everyday](https://londongraph.com/data/story/unequal-in-the-everyday)
- Latest contributing release: 2026-08-01T14:54:37.560Z

Neighbourhood indices, pupil records, survey wellbeing and population health estimates should never be merged into a league table. Their juxtaposition can still reveal which questions deserve closer local attention.

## Evidence

### Relative deprivation

The 2025 English Indices of Deprivation score at neighbourhood level.

- Current computed headline: Brent 021B — 71.31 relative score (2025)
- London median: 21.28 relative score
- Release: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — corrected File 7
- Dataset: `deprivation-neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood`
- Explore: [deprivation-neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood](https://londongraph.com/g/deprivation-neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood)

### Persistent absence

The published borough percentage of pupils persistently absent.

- The dataset is not available on this deployment; no value is substituted.
- Dataset: `persistent-absence`
- Explore: [children-who-are-not-in-school](https://londongraph.com/g/children-who-are-not-in-school)

### Mean anxiety

Survey-based borough mean anxiety score with the published small-sample warning.

- The dataset is not available on this deployment; no value is substituted.
- Dataset: `anxiety-by-borough`
- Explore: [the-anxiety-map](https://londongraph.com/g/the-anxiety-map)

### Healthy life expectancy

Population estimates of years expected in good health.

- Current computed headline: Greenwich — 57.5 healthy years at birth (Greenwich)
- Comparison: unavailable
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `healthy-expectancy`
- Explore: [how-many-of-those-years-are-good-ones](https://londongraph.com/g/how-many-of-those-years-are-good-ones)

## Interpretation

The measures use different populations, geographies and uncertainty. Their co-location cannot establish causation or identify the circumstances of an individual resident or pupil.

Every numerical claim is computed from the current versioned datasets at render time. Missing data is reported as missing rather than replaced.

## Sources

- [MHCLG](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2025)
- [Department for Education](https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/)
- [ONS](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing)
- [OHID Fingertips](https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/)