There’s a gap of more than £40,000 in disposable income between the richest and poorest neighbourhood
The gap between Cambridgeshire’s richest and poorest neighbourhoods is growing, with those at the top having over £40,000 more to spend a year than those at the bottom.
Households in the Central & West Cambridge neighbourhood of Cambridge had an average disposable income of £71,600 after tax in the financial year ending 2023. That makes the area Cambridgeshire ’s highest-earning neighbourhood, according to new data released by the Office for National Statistics.
By contrast, Millfield & Bourges Boulevard in Peterborough had the lowest average income in the county. Households in the neighbourhood had an average disposable income of just under £30,900 a year.
That’s less than half that of Central & West Cambridge, and works out as an income gap of £40,700 a year.
When the data was last released for the financial year ending 2020, the gap between Cambridgeshire’s richest and poorest neighbourhoods was £21,000 a year, suggesting the income gap has nearly doubled in the space of just three years.
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The gap between England and Wales’ richest and poorest neighbourhoods is growing, with those at the top having almost £87,000 more to spend a year than those at the bottom.
Households in the Leamouth neighbourhood of Tower Hamlets in London had an average disposable income of £107,600 after tax in the financial year ending 2023. That makes the area – which includes a number of upmarket riverside tower blocks between Canning Town and Canary Wharf – the highest-earning neighbourhood in England and Wales.
By contrast, Sparkhill North in Birmingham had the lowest average income in the country. Households in the area had an average disposable income of just under £20,800 a year. That’s £86,800 a year less than in Leamouth.
When the data was last released for the financial year ending 2020, the gap between the richest and poorest neighbourhoods was just £50,300 a year, suggesting the income gap has grown by 73 percent in the space of just three years.
The six lowest earning areas in England and Wales are all located in Birmingham. After Sparkhill North, Sparkbrook South has the second lowest average household income with £21,548. Small Heath Park is next with £21,666, followed by Saltley East with £21,689, Washwood Heath with £21,787, and Bordesley Green North with £21,928.
Almost half (45 percent) of all neighbourhoods in London are in the top 10 percent when it comes to average disposable household income In the South East, 14 percent of neighbourhoods were in the top 10 percent nationally, while in the East of England it was eight percent.
The North East, meanwhile, had no neighbourhoods in the top 10 percent. Both Wales and Yorkshire and the Humber had less than one percent of neighbourhoods in the top 10 percent nationally, while in the North West it was one percent, and in the West Midlands, East Midlands and South West it was two percent.
Almost a quarter (23 percent) of neighbourhoods in both the North West and West Midlands were in the bottom 10 percent nationally, and 21 percent in the North East.
Cambridgeshire’s 20 richest neighbourhoods
1. Central & West Cambridge, Cambridge: £71,558
2. Eddington & Castle, Cambridge: £62,494
3. Newtown, Cambridge: £61,964
4. Trumpington, Cambridge: £58,309
5. Cambourne, South Cambridgeshire: £56,701
6. Little Shelford , Foxton & Haslingfield, South Cambridgeshire: £54,925
7. West Chesterton, Cambridge: £54,052
8. Great Shelford & Stapleford, South Cambridgeshire: £52,004
9. Barnack, Wittering & Wansford, Peterborough: £48,933
10. Addenbrooke’s & Queen Edith’s, Cambridge: £48,697
11. Petersfield, Cambridge: £47,918
12. Hampton Vale, Peterborough: £47,566
13. Papworth, Caxton & Fen Drayton, South Cambridgeshire: £47,190
14. Romsey, Cambridge: £47,163
15. Bar Hill, Girton & Grantchester, South Cambridgeshire: £46,818
16. Linton & Balsham, South Cambridgeshire: £46,239
17. Fulbourn & Teversham, South Cambridgeshire: £46,172
18. Houghton, Hemingford & Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire: £46,118
19. Hardwick & Highfields, South Cambridgeshire: £45,958
20. Duxford, Whittlesford & the Abingtons, South Cambridgeshire: £45,849
Cambridgeshire’s 20 poorest neighbourhoods
1. Millfield & Bourges Boulevard, Peterborough: £30,892
2. Central Park, Peterborough: £31,519
3. North Bretton & Westwood, Peterborough: £31,565
4. Dogsthorpe, Peterborough: £31,899
5. Wisbech North, Fenland: £32,462
6. Orton Malborne & Goldhay, Peterborough: £32,649
7. Wisbech South & Peckover, Fenland: £32,772
8. March East, Fenland: £33,128
9. Paston, Peterborough: £33,593
10. Leverington, Gorefield & Tydd St Giles, Fenland: £33,593
11. Wisbech St Mary, Waldersea & Christchurch, Fenland: £34,083
12. Fengate & Parnwell, Peterborough: £34,151
13. Peterborough Central, Peterborough: £34,368
14. March West, Fenland: £34,757
15. March North, Fenland: £34,871
16. Huntingdon Sapley & Oxmoor, Huntingdonshire: £34,971
17. Chatteris, Fenland: £35,182
18. Doddington, Wimblington & Manea, Fenland: £35,452
19. Bretton Park, Peterborough: £35,843
20. Walton, Peterborough: £36,120
