Only eight of the top 50 constituencies for opportunity and social mobility are outside of London, while places in the North East and North West dominate the bottom of the table.
Social mobility charity the Sutton Trust has compiled its first ever Opportunity Index (Holt-White et al, 2025), drawing upon data from more than 10 million young people across two decades to shine a light on “the geography of opportunity and social mobility”.
The index ranks all the constituencies in England by the school attainment, higher education, employment, and earnings of young people who were eligible for free school meals at secondary school.
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