Birmingham

Published: 11 September 2024

This page shows how Birmingham is classified for the following 4 measures of social mobility:

Promising prospects
Middle group
Conditions of childhood
Unfavourable group

How areas are classified

Each measure of social mobility combines data from multiple indicators into a single ‘composite’ score.

For each measure (for example, ‘Innovation and growth’), 203 local authorities in the UK are classified according to their composite scores. The following labels show how each area is classified:

  • most favourable group
  • favourable group
  • middle group
  • unfavourable group
  • least favourable group

The groups are not equally sized – the middle group is larger because most local authorities are very near the average.


Page history

In 2023, we published data for 41 regions.
You can see these on the Social mobility by area homepage, version 1.0.

In 2024, we published data for 203 local authorities.
Birmingham is one of them.

Publication release date:

11 September 2024