This Social Distancing Score finds the neighbourhoods in Grampian where it is the most difficult to socially distance.

The score combines three measures:

• percent of people with essential jobs
• percent of people living in overcrowded homes
• local population density

Please click on the maps, scroll through the tables, and see the tabs above for more detail.

An area’s Social Distancing Score doesn’t always correlate to its Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation value. This is especially true in areas with less deprivation, some of which will have a difficult time social distancing (top left of the figure).

Areas with high deprivation do tend to also have a difficult time socially distancing (top right of the figure)

This Social Distancing Score finds the neighbourhoods in Grampian where people will find it most difficult to socially distance.

The score combines three measures:

• percent of people with essential jobs
• percent of people living in overcrowded homes
• local population density

The Scottish Government divides the country into 7000 areas of roughly equal population (called data zones). For this analysis, each data zone’s values on the three measures above were ranked by percentile in Grampian. The three percentiles were summed to a Total Points score out of 300.

For example, data zone S01006645 on George Street was in the 88th percentile for overcrowding, the 100th percentile for population density, and the 88th percentile for essential occupations, giving 276 Total Points.

The Social Distancing Score is the decile of the area’s Total Points. Data zone S01006645 on George Street’s Total Points score of 276 puts it in the top 10% of all areas in Grampian - giving it a Social Distancing Score of 10.

The higher the score, the less likely the population will be able to socially distance.

Essential occupations were those in manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail trade, accommodation and food services, education, health and social care. These values were taken from the 2011 census. (see Sources tab)

Overcrowding, population density and index of multiple deprivation decile were taken from the 2020 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. (See Sources tab)

Raw values for the three measures, percentiles, and scores are given for every data zone in the Scores tab. All data and code for calculating measures are given in the Sources tab.