FOI REF: FOI-2023-1618
You asked
Please can I ask how many people in Winchester and the surrounding area are currently living below the poverty line, and comparing this to available previous years?
We said
Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately, the information you are specifically requesting is not held by the ONS.
We did recently publish Income estimates for small areas, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) for the financial year ending March 2020. The dataset includes estimates of mean household income modelled for each of the 7,201 2011 Census MSOAs in England and Wales.
Five of these MSOAs relate at least in part, to Winchester and one may wish to refer to the following areas in the downloadable file of results Income estimates for small areas, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
Winchester Central & South Code: E02004835
Winchester East Code: E02004834
Winchester North & Sparsholt Code: E02004831
Winchester Stanmore Code: E02004836
Winchester West Code: E02004833
We are in the process of reviewing our methodology for Small Area Income Estimates and one of the options being considered involves making greater use of more granular administrative data. If this is applied in the future, then then may be more scope to generate additional detail, such as the proportion of people below certain income thresholds at local level.
You may also wish to refer to the DWP publication Households below average income (HBAI) statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) datasets and contact the DWP for further information.
Estimates based on the 2021 MSOAs may be available via our bespoke services route. To discuss this request, please email economic.wellbeing@ons.gov.uk. Please note, this service is subject to legal frameworks, resources, disclosure controls and an agreement on costs in line with our charging policy, depending on the amount of time taken to develop the analyses and undertake quality and disclosure control processes.