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East of England

South Suffolk

7th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
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What the data shows

Housing deprivation: bottom 9.5%. Number of housing-focused charities: 129.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,474 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 South Suffolk 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
438/543
health
452/543
income
401/543
housing
62/543
Bottom 20%
education
284/543
employment
415/543
environment
343/543

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

Identified resource gaps

housing MODERATE
Rank 62/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
129 housing-focused charities, 2002 employees

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

3016 registered charities

3,016
Charities
£23,646,599
Grants to HQ'd charities
11,513
Employees
68,153
Volunteers
17.3%
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

POOR'S FEN(NO 2)
TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE SUFFOLK NATURALISTS' SOCIETY
TOWN ESTATE
COLLINS DOLE
JOHN BOOTY
LYDIA LOUISA CARLOS
SIR JEFFREY BURWELL FOR APPRENTICING AND PARISH CLERK
CHARLES GRINTER BEQUEST
ELIZABETH WARNER COTTAGE
TOWN ESTATE CHARITY (ONE HALF PART OF NON-ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITIES SHARE )

GP and primary care

7
GP practices
33
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,474
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 274 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in South Suffolk, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 3,500
Construction 1,825
Social Care 1,800
Transport 1,255
NHS / Healthcare 1,000
Environment / Green 280

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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