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East Midlands

Leicester South

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
55
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 3,479 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)
Housing deprivation: bottom 3.5%. Number of housing-focused charities: 56.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

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Your councillors

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Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
119/543
health
193/543
income
82/543
Bottom 20%
housing
23/543
Bottom 10%
education
45/543
Bottom 10%
employment
154/543
environment
25/543
Bottom 10%

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

Identified resource gaps

education HIGH
Rank 45/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
392 education-focused charities, 3008 employees
housing HIGH
Rank 23/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
56 housing-focused charities, 510 employees
environment HIGH
Rank 25/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
147 environment-focused charities, 837 employees
income MODERATE
Rank 82/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
227 income-focused charities, 937 employees
crime MODERATE
Rank 119/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
employment LOW
Rank 154/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
121 employment-focused charities, 724 employees
health LOW
Rank 193/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
319 health-focused charities, 1878 employees
GP ratio: 1:3479 (above 1:2000 threshold)

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

711 registered charities

711
Charities
£11,435,051
Grants to HQ'd charities
3,875
Employees
24,676
Volunteers
15.8%
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

ELDERLY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES CHARITY

3 staff
EAST MIDLAND BAPTIST CAPITAL PROJECT FUND
LEICESTERSHIRE MIXED HERITAGE FORUM
AL MARKAZ AL ISLAAMI WOOD GREEN
HUMAN KIND
MARANATHA COMMUNITY CHURCH OF JESUS
WOODLEIGH COMMUNITY LIFELINE
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILIP LEICESTER
BE BOLD BE YOU FOUNDATION
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD - REHOBOTH

GP and primary care

18
GP practices
47
FQ FTE GPs
1:3,479
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 1279 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Leicester South, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 21,000
Education 13,000
Social Care 3,500
Construction 1,510
Transport 1,200
Environment / Green 30

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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