Bolton Town Hall Google Earth A NEW index to track the Government’s progress on its ‘levelling up’ agenda puts Bolton among the most deprived boroughs in the UK. The Legatum Institute has published the UK Prosperity Index revealing the prosperity of every local authority and highlighting considerable variations between regions. The institute uses traditional indicators such as infrastructure and transport alongside the safety and security of communities, people’s physical and mental health and the conditions for local enterprise as measures for its index. Overall Bolton ranks 330th out of 379 local authorities with a particular poor rating for safety and security, based largely on crime figures.