Where no Law Centre shows
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In 69 of the 152 counties and unitary authorities of England, neither record shows a Law Centre. 4,995,473 people on low incomes live in them. Before either sentence is quoted anywhere, read the next one.
It does not mean people there cannot get free legal help. Citizens Advice, legal aid solicitors, university law clinics and other advice charities all give it, and a Law Centre can take cases from beyond the areas it records. What it means is narrow: no Law Centre on the Network’s public list gives an address there, and no Law Centre charity records the area as one it works in. Both records can miss a Law Centre that is really there.
How presence was counted
- An address — a Law Centre on the Network’s list gives one in the area: 35 areas.
- The register — a Law Centre charity tells the Charity Commission it operates there: 75 areas.
Either one counts. A charity that records a whole region or country is not counted as present in any one area of it, because a charity that says it works everywhere says nothing about a particular place.
Recorded as working everywhere
Nine of the network’s charities tell the register only that they work throughout a region or nation, so the register places them nowhere and they count only where they give an address. Where one of them really covers an area, this page cannot see it:
- Cambridge House Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout London”
- Equality and Employment Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
- Islington Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout London”
- North Kensington Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout London”
- Public Interest Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
- RCJ Advice – Citizens Advice and Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
- Southwark Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout London”
- The Derby Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
- Tower Hamlets Law Centre — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
Every area where neither record shows a Law Centre
Largest number of people on low incomes first.
| Area | People on low incomes | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lancashire | 287,133 | |
| Staffordshire | 159,356 | |
| Surrey | 154,132 | |
| West Sussex | 151,627 | |
| Devon | 141,045 | |
| Newham | 139,421 | |
| Sandwell | 129,008 | |
| Cornwall | 126,433 | |
| East Sussex | 118,066 | |
| Worcestershire | 113,279 | |
| Warwickshire | 102,768 | |
| Walsall | 102,018 | |
| Barnet | 100,163 | |
| Oxfordshire | 98,586 | |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of | 97,586 | |
| Wolverhampton | 95,802 | |
| Wakefield | 91,273 | |
| Doncaster | 91,195 | |
| Dudley | 86,608 | |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 86,082 | |
| Lewisham | 85,820 | |
| Sunderland | 85,489 | |
| Redbridge | 85,430 | |
| Barking and Dagenham | 84,520 | |
| Lambeth | 82,290 | |
| Waltham Forest | 81,768 | |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 79,686 | |
| Rotherham | 79,381 | |
| Barnsley | 68,878 | |
| Peterborough | 67,420 | |
| Medway | 67,311 | |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 66,292 | |
| Plymouth | 65,263 | |
| Southampton | 65,210 | |
| Dorset | 63,042 | |
| Milton Keynes | 61,373 | |
| Cheshire East | 60,744 | |
| Brighton and Hove | 59,179 | |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 57,898 | |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 56,313 | |
| Middlesbrough | 55,673 | |
| Shropshire | 55,046 | |
| Calderdale | 54,685 | |
| Portsmouth | 54,210 | |
| Havering | 53,853 | |
| Blackpool | 53,357 | |
| Bromley | 52,165 | |
| Telford and Wrekin | 52,045 | |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 51,276 | |
| North East Lincolnshire | 47,529 | |
| Bexley | 46,370 | |
| Slough | 46,022 | |
| Southend-on-Sea | 45,521 | |
| Solihull | 42,238 | |
| Thurrock | 41,926 | |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 40,731 | |
| North Lincolnshire | 39,728 | |
| Reading | 37,066 | |
| Torbay | 36,233 | |
| Herefordshire, County of | 33,771 | |
| Hartlepool | 33,522 | |
| Darlington | 27,159 | |
| York | 26,704 | |
| West Berkshire | 21,533 | |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 17,555 | |
| Wokingham | 16,926 | |
| Bracknell Forest | 16,848 | |
| City of London | 756 | |
| Isles of Scilly | 137 |
Wales
The Network’s list includes Law Centres in Wales and Northern Ireland. The count of people on low incomes is England’s own index, so they are on the list of Law Centres and not in this measurement.
What else to know
- The count of people on low incomes comes from English indices of deprivation 2025, income domain rate x total population (mid-2022). It is summed over each area’s own neighbourhoods, for England only.