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East of England

Hitchin

9th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,326 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)

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Your councillors

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

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
456/543
health
466/543
income
443/543
housing
225/543
education
447/543
employment
467/543
environment
458/543

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

Identified resource gaps

housing LOW
Rank 225/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
181 housing-focused charities, 2708 employees

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

4127 registered charities

4,127
Charities
£48,725,872
Grants to HQ'd charities
23,422
Employees
128,467
Volunteers
12.9%
Govt funded
LOW
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

MARL ALLOTMENT
TURVEY POORS LAND
WIDOWS FUND (REV ROBERT HANCOCK'S CHARITY)
TOWN LANDS
CHARLES RICHARDS FOR BREAD AND CLOTHING
EATON SOCON NURSING ASSOCIATION
ELIZABETH LANE
SAMUEL EDWIN BARTLEET
BLANDINA MARSHE
MARSTON MORETAINE RELIEF IN NEED CHARITY

GP and primary care

7
GP practices
41
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,326
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 126 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Hitchin, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 3,000
Construction 2,575
Social Care 1,800
NHS / Healthcare 1,250
Transport 680
Environment / Green 115

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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