West Midlands

Birmingham Yardley

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap

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The numbers

What the data shows

Income deprivation: bottom 1.1%. Number of income-focused charities: 706.

English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

1 GP for every 2,878 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.

NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

Blocked Britain episodes

Stories from Birmingham Yardley

Episode 274 · NHS / Healthcare

Zafira's Story

Zafira is 24 and lives in Birmingham Yardley, one of the most deprived constituencies in England. She wanted to train as a nurse to serve …

Episode 10 · Social Care

Saira's Story

Saira, 35, from Birmingham Yardley in the West Midlands, wanted to work in social care but found herself trapped by Westminster's deliberate underfunding. Local care …

Local representatives

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Birmingham Yardley yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Deprivation profile

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime

64/543

Bottom 20%

health

55/543

Bottom 20%

income

7/543

Bottom 10%

housing

231/543

education

18/543

Bottom 10%

employment

21/543

Bottom 10%

environment

80/543

Bottom 20%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Resource analysis

Identified resource gaps

income HIGH

Rank 7/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)

706 income-focused charities, 4358 employees

employment HIGH

Rank 21/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)

471 employment-focused charities, 3231 employees

education HIGH

Rank 18/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)

1298 education-focused charities, 13521 employees

crime HIGH

Rank 64/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)

No crime-focused charities in constituency

health MODERATE

Rank 55/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)

988 health-focused charities, 13092 employees

GP ratio: 1:2878 (above 1:2000 threshold)

environment MODERATE

Rank 80/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)

610 environment-focused charities, 3296 employees

housing LOW

Rank 231/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)

191 housing-focused charities, 2947 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

Charity landscape

2357 registered charities

2,357

Charities

£52,124,903

Grants to HQ'd charities

19,179

Employees

75,770

Volunteers

27.1%

Govt funded

MEDIUM

Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

KING'S NORTON PARISH LANDS CHARITY

THE IN MEMORIAM TRUST

THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL

J R HOLLIDAY BEQUEST

ROBERT SAUNDBY BEQUEST FUND

MARY ANN UPFILL

40 staff

RICHARD GIBSON REAVES

ST JAMES THE LESS CHURCH FUND

356 staff

PERCY W COX SCHOLARSHIP

PERSEHOUSE PENSIONS FUND

Healthcare capacity

GP and primary care

GP practices

FQ FTE GPs

1:2,878

Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 678 patients above that. See methodology.

Labour market

People working in Birmingham Yardley, by sector

Sector	Employees
Social Care	2,750
Construction	2,550
Education	2,500
NHS / Healthcare	2,250
Transport	1,225
Environment / Green	700

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance

360Giving GrantNav [source]

Accessed 2026-04-08

NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]

Accessed 2026-04-08

Charity Commission Register [source]

Accessed 2026-03-31

English Indices of Deprivation [source]

Accessed 2026-04-10

ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]

Accessed 2026-04-04

Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]

Accessed 2026-04-10

Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]

Accessed 2026-04-08

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