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What this answers: What share of Portsmouth people aged 60 and over were living in income deprivation in the 2025 indices?

Definition: Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index (IDAOPI) 2025: the share of people aged 60 and over who receive income-related support (mainly Pension Credit Guarantee Credit, and income-based benefits or Universal Credit for those of working age with a partner aged 60+). Area figures are the neighbourhood scores weighted by the mid-2022 population aged 60+, the same method MHCLG uses for its published district average score.

• Unlike the overall index, this score is a real proportion of people, so it can be compared between places on an absolute scale.
• It counts people receiving support. Older people who are entitled to Pension Credit but do not claim it are not counted, so this can understate low income.
• The benefit data mostly relate to 2022, with population estimates for mid-2022.
• The city council figures reproduce the district average score MHCLG publishes in File 10 (checked by this script). The England and ward figures are computed here with the same weighting.
• Ward figures use the ONS best-fit LSOA (2021) to ward (May 2024) lookup.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: File 7, all ranks, scores, deciles and population denominators ↗ · English Indices of Deprivation 2025, published 2025-10-30 · retrieved 2026-11-09

What this answers: How many emergency food parcels did Trussell food banks in Portsmouth hand out each year?

Definition: Emergency food parcels (three or seven days of food; not equivalised) given out by food banks in the Trussell network, recorded by where the distribution centre is, not where the person lives. Calendar years (1 January to 31 December) as published in Trussell's end-of-year workbook. Total parcels for adults and children.

• This is charity management information, not official statistics.
• It covers only food banks in the Trussell network. Independent food banks, community pantries and other food aid are not counted, so it understates all food bank use.
• Southampton has no Trussell food bank in these years, so its figures are blank: this does not mean nobody in Southampton used a food bank. The same applies to any other city with blank years.
• Parcels are counted, not people: one person can receive several parcels in a year.
• Changes can reflect food banks opening or closing locations, late data entry, or other local food aid, as well as need. Trussell advises caution comparing growth between areas.
• Figures are subject to revision in the next release.

Trussell (charity): End of year food bank statistics: parcel statistics workbook ↗ · Workbook release: 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025; publication-date cell holds Excel serial 45727 · retrieved 2026-11-09