East of England

West Suffolk

6th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap

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The numbers

What the data shows

Housing deprivation: bottom 6.2%. Number of housing-focused charities: 133.

English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

1 GP for every 2,327 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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Local representatives

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for West Suffolk 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

371/543

health

367/543

income

375/543

housing

40/543

Bottom 10%

education

133/543

employment

439/543

environment

313/543

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

Resource analysis

Identified resource gaps

housing HIGH

Rank 40/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)

133 housing-focused charities, 2052 employees

education LOW

Rank 133/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)

1324 education-focused charities, 7919 employees

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

Charity landscape

3041 registered charities

3,041

Charities

£23,805,421

Grants to HQ'd charities

11,566

Employees

68,371

Volunteers

17.1%

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 )

Healthcare capacity

GP and primary care

GP practices

FQ FTE GPs

1:2,327

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 127 patients above that. See methodology.

Labour market

People working in West Suffolk, by sector

Sector	Employees
Education	4,000
Construction	3,325
Transport	2,110
Social Care	2,050
NHS / Healthcare	1,250
Environment / Green	180

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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