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Christchurch has the highest spending on State Pension per resident in 2024-25.

The State Pension, paid from State Pension age. It includes the new State Pension and the older basic and additional pensions. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on State Pension, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £1,168
  2. £1,168 to £1,561
  3. £1,561 to £1,954
  4. £1,954 to £2,347
  5. £2,347 to £2,740
  6. £2,740 and over
Spending on State Pension, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency. Boundaries are simplified. London is also shown larger, in a separate box. Northern Ireland is not covered. Every value is in the table below.
More ways to look at itHow ranks change, why spending changed, and spending compared with the expected level

Total or per person

Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1631New Forest West 184Christchurch 206Clacton 270Bexhill and Battle 278Louth and Horncastle 331North Norfolk 412South Shropshire 470West Dorset 474Isle of Wight East 479Honiton and Sidmouth 504

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, State Pension: yearly spending at the rate in February 2023 and in March 2026. The chart splits the change into three parts: the number of people in the age group, the share of them claiming, and the average payment. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

£104.6bnFebruary 2023+£2.1bnPopulation+£5.0bnShare claiming+£28.8bnPayment size£140.6bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£104.6bn
Population+£2.1bn
Share claiming+£5.0bn
Payment size+£28.8bn
March 2026£140.6bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 66 and over. Yearly spending here is the number claiming, times the average weekly payment, times 52. It is not the amount paid out over the year. Population after mid-2024 stays at the mid-2024 figure, so later growth shows in the share claiming.

Compared with similar areas

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25. We compare it with the level we would expect from each area's share of children and of people aged 66 and over, how deprived it is compared with the rest of its nation, and the typical pay of people who live there. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

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Expected level = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on State Pension, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 632 rows are shown.

Spending on State Pension for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Christchurch£330.0m£3,737£11,039
2North Norfolk£320.1m£3,682£10,836
3New Forest West£310.2m£3,648£11,059
4West Dorset£327.5m£3,399£10,745
5Bexhill and Battle£310.8m£3,368£10,979
6Clacton£342.5m£3,325£10,987
7Honiton and Sidmouth£310.8m£3,317£10,678
8Isle of Wight East£228.1m£3,287£10,735
9Louth and Horncastle£323.2m£3,279£10,929
10South Shropshire£312.0m£3,236£10,755
11Suffolk Coastal£306.8m£3,219£10,837
12Arundel and South Downs£312.8m£3,155£11,090
13North Northumberland£294.8m£3,142£10,784
14Waveney Valley£285.8m£3,128£10,850
15Bridlington and The Wolds£297.3m£3,120£10,694
16South Devon£286.9m£3,108£10,655
17North Herefordshire£284.9m£3,071£10,799
18Torridge and Tavistock£298.0m£3,051£10,745
19Wirral West£271.8m£3,051£11,058
20Lewes£295.0m£3,029£11,078
21West Worcestershire£310.3m£3,027£10,989
22Tiverton and Minehead£281.5m£3,025£10,748
23Sefton Central£281.1m£3,011£11,269
24Thirsk and Malton£295.9m£2,963£10,851
25Westmorland and Lonsdale£270.8m£2,957£10,818
26Skipton and Ripon£295.2m£2,944£10,947
27South East Cornwall£273.8m£2,942£10,510
28North Dorset£281.3m£2,938£11,035
29Fylde£296.4m£2,922£10,609
30Mid Dorset and North Poole£285.0m£2,915£11,264
31Beverley and Holderness£267.7m£2,914£11,030
32Kingswinford and South Staffordshire£264.1m£2,908£11,226
33St Ives£259.7m£2,899£10,566
34Hexham£279.0m£2,897£10,883
35Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£316.0m£2,897£10,908
36Newton Abbot£273.3m£2,878£10,902
37Herne Bay and Sandwich£295.0m£2,877£10,866
38South Dorset£288.6m£2,869£10,726
39Glastonbury and Somerton£269.6m£2,867£11,026
40Wells and Mendip Hills£266.2m£2,865£10,985
41New Forest East£259.5m£2,849£11,156
42Staffordshire Moorlands£244.5m£2,847£11,105
43Isle of Wight West£205.8m£2,847£10,673
44Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe£263.2m£2,846£10,581
45Chichester£310.8m£2,841£11,073
46Derbyshire Dales£259.3m£2,837£11,070
47Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk£273.4m£2,829£10,846
48Richmond and Northallerton£267.4m£2,824£10,909
49Broadland and Fakenham£273.6m£2,817£10,868
50Dumfries and Galloway£271.2m£2,815£10,730

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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