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Wider Determinants of Health
Wider Determinants of Health
Geography: Tower Hamlets This boroughCompared with NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
Everything here is catchment-weighted — it reflects where your patients live, not your practice’s own counts.
Reads where your registered patients live, weighted by list share per LSOA/MSOA. Each figure is the small-area determinant of the neighbourhoods this scope’s patients live in, benchmarked against its nearest-parent area (NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD) and England.
§1Economic security
Out-of-work benefit pressure across the neighbourhoods your patients live in.
Claimant count
6.9%+0.3 pp vs NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (6.6%)This borough · patient-weighted (catchment) · Aug 2026 · ONS/DWP Claimant Count · NOMIS · LSOA21 · catchment-weightedOpen explorer →Catchment-weighted · LSOAOfficial
Households on Universal Credit
41.1%+3.2 pp vs NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (37.9%)This borough · patient-weighted (catchment) · May 2026 · DWP Stat-Xplore · LSOA21 · catchment-weightedOpen explorer →Catchment-weighted · LSOAOfficial
§2Child & family poverty
Children growing up in relative low income — as a rate and as an absolute caseload.
Children in low-income families
25.5%+4.5 pp vs NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (21%)This borough · patient-weighted (catchment) · FYE 2025 · DWP CiLIF · relative low income, BHC, 0–19 · LSOA21 · catchment-weightedOpen explorer →Catchment-weighted · LSOAOfficial
Children in low income — cohort
286,978No nearest-parent comparator at this scopeThis borough · catchment small areas · FYE 2025 · DWP CiLIF numerator · catchment small areasCount, not a rate — children in low income living across the catchment small areas (caseload sizing).Open explorer →Catchment-weighted · LSOAOfficial
§3Income & cost of living
Household income and the cost of keeping a home warm — both modelled small-area estimates.
Net equivalised income (mean, BHC)
£48,754+£4,799 vs NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (£43,955)This borough · patient-weighted (catchment) · FYE2023 · ONS small-area income · MSOA · catchment-weightedModelled MEAN income — sensitive to a high-earner tail, so a high mean can mask local hardship. Read as indicative, not precise.Open explorer →Catchment-weighted · MSOAModelled
Fuel poverty (LILEE)
7.3%−3 pp vs NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (10.3%)This borough · patient-weighted (catchment) · 2024 · DESNZ sub-regional · LSOA21 · catchment-weightedModelled small-area estimate (Low Income Low Energy Efficiency).Open explorer →Catchment-weighted · LSOAModelled
§4Overall deprivation
The composite deprivation picture and the registered list it sits behind.
In most-deprived national quintile (IMD)
46.8%+17.3 pp vs NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (29.4%)This borough · patient-weighted (catchment) · IoD2025 · IoD2025 (English Indices of Deprivation) · LSOA · catchment-weightedOpen explorer →Catchment-weighted · LSOAOfficial
Registered patients
384,8776.3% aged 65+ · 14.5% aged 0–14This borough · registered (GP practice) · Sept 2026 · GP registered list (NHS Digital)View Population profile →Your boroughOfficial