Northern Ireland
Published: 11 September 2024
This page shows how Northern Ireland is classified for the following 4 measures of social mobility:
- Promising prospects
- Least favourable group
- Conditions of childhood
- Middle group
- Labour market opportunities for young people
- Middle group
- Innovation and growth
- Middle 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.
Northern Ireland is one of them.
Publication release date:
11 September 2024