Greater Manchester Poverty Monitor

Child Poverty and Social Security pages updated February 2024 with new figures on free school meal eligibility

Welcome to the Greater Manchester Poverty Monitor detailing statistics relating to poverty across ten themes. Click the links below to access each of the themed pages. The Monitor highlights the scale of poverty and inequality of outcomes, both within the city region and between the city region and the rest of England. The aim of the Monitor is to equip stakeholders with relevant knowledge to tackle socio-economic disadvantage in their own activities, from policy development to service design, advocacy and campaigning. You can find out more about the Monitor and how best to use it by watching the short animated user guide below.

While we don’t have the capacity to update the poverty monitor every year, the child poverty and national poverty sections have been updated in 2023 and show the most recent statistics.

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As well as looking at statistics, it is important we understand the views and perspectives of people who have lived experience of poverty. We have created videos complementing four of the Poverty Monitor themes: Debt, Education, Housing and Labour Market. You can watch these Stories behind the statistics here.

Before using the Poverty Monitor, we would encourage you to read the ‘Notes and resources for users’. When viewing individual indicators on the site, please read the accompanying commentary to ensure accurate interpretation of the data.

You can read the press release we issued alongside the launch of the Monitor here. Please note that any views expressed or interpretations of the data made by GMPA are GMPA’s alone and are not necessarily reflective of those individuals and organisations who have supported the development of the Monitor.