Meanwhile, Greytown is the least deprived town in Wairarapa, on five.
The calculations use communication, income, employment, qualifications, owned home, support, living space and transport to produce the index.
The index also includes the variable "lack of access to the internet at home for those less than 65" in determining deprivation.
Nationally, the index shows deprivation has remained unchanged for Maori 20 years since the first index was produced, says health policy researcher Peter Crampton.
Professor Crampton said most Maori and Pacific people still lived in socially deprived areas.
"I am struck and still taken aback by how ethnic patterns have remained stable.
"New Zealand is on a positive journey, but the underlying patterns remain. It will be a multi-generational process for things to change. We've to stay in the game and continue working through the process."
The inclusion of 'internet access" variable is meant to reflect the ever-increasing importance of the internet for various social activities.
Professor Crampton said the inclusion increased the overall explanatory power of the index compared to the 2006 index.
"The internet is now a fundamental aspect of our structures of opportunity, socially and in the market."
The scale reflects a continuum from "least deprivation" to "most deprivation", rather than from "affluence" to "deprivation", according the accompanying research report.
The latest index also shows that smoking is strongly correlated with the socio-economic status.
The deprivation index is widely used in social service planning in central and local government. Its primary uses include resource allocation, research and community advocacy. Professor Crampton emphasised the importance of remembering why the index was created in the first place.
- APN
