London Underground map used to show city’s deprivation

Tube users can visualise deprivation at stations across London thanks to a new version of the iconic underground map created by a geography expert from the University of Sheffield. Unmistakeable to the millions of people who travel on the service each year, the iconic Transport for London tube map has been transformed to illustrate inequality and show the social divides across all of the city's underground stations. The deprivation data is based upon seven factors taken from the Indices of Deprivation 2010: income, employment, health, education, housing, crime, and environment. Accurately depicting a divided London with large areas of rich and poor side by side the larger the tube stop the worse the deprivation. The new map reveals the area surrounding Aldgate East station was the most deprived and Chalfront & Latimer was the most affluent. The most deprived tube routes were the District and Piccadilly lines with the London Overground passing through the most deprived areas. The deprivation data was compiled by the Government and is based on a variety of factors including income, health, housing and more.