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Tottenham has the highest spending on Universal Credit per resident in 2024-25.

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Spending on Universal Credit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £688
  2. £688 to £907
  3. £907 to £1,125
  4. £1,125 to £1,344
  5. £1,344 to £1,563
  6. £1,563 and over
Spending on Universal Credit, 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

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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 632 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 16 to 641632Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 1Enfield North 2Brent East 3Hackney North and Stoke Newington 4Tottenham 5Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North 6Queen's Park and Maida Vale 10Lewisham East 11Croydon West 13Bethnal Green and Stepney 36

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Universal Credit: yearly spending at the rate in May 2023 and in May 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.

£49.0bnMay 2023+£716.0mPopulation+£21.9bnShare claiming+£15.8bnPayment size£87.5bnMay 2026
What changed: Universal Credit
May 2023£49.0bn
Population+£716.0m
Share claiming+£21.9bn
Payment size+£15.8bn
May 2026£87.5bn
The share claiming is the number of households claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Universal Credit, 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 Universal Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Tottenham£344.5m£2,489£3,487
2Hackney North and Stoke Newington£289.4m£2,465£3,581
3Brent East£337.2m£2,459£3,616
4Enfield North£308.3m£2,418£3,773
5Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£301.9m£2,413£3,786
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£245.0m£1,966£2,735
7Bethnal Green and Stepney£254.5m£1,890£2,461
8Croydon West£249.0m£1,887£2,713
9Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£232.9m£1,857£2,979
10Lewisham East£218.3m£1,852£2,716
11East Ham£249.7m£1,830£2,657
12Barking£258.9m£1,817£2,710
13Blackpool South£201.3m£1,788£2,856
14Blackley and Middleton South£205.1m£1,778£2,852
15Poplar and Limehouse£265.3m£1,776£2,279
16Birmingham Ladywood£294.0m£1,761£2,401
17Southgate and Wood Green£223.7m£1,752£2,606
18Birmingham Erdington£221.0m£1,751£2,743
19Birmingham Perry Barr£218.5m£1,744£2,659
20Ealing North£231.8m£1,724£2,574
21Liverpool Walton£175.6m£1,714£2,715
22Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£197.6m£1,713£2,693
23Leeds South£226.4m£1,713£2,526
24West Ham and Beckton£251.0m£1,697£2,302
25Bradford East£209.4m£1,689£2,649
26Gorton and Denton£200.8m£1,686£2,634
27Birmingham Yardley£198.6m£1,686£2,663
28Peckham£187.1m£1,673£2,228
29Bradford West£210.2m£1,655£2,547
30Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£199.4m£1,645£2,550
31Walsall and Bloxwich£205.5m£1,643£2,604
32Birmingham Northfield£179.6m£1,642£2,676
33Hackney South and Shoreditch£193.5m£1,641£2,111
34Erith and Thamesmead£228.9m£1,640£2,410
35Bootle£167.8m£1,610£2,546
36East Thanet£170.8m£1,608£2,712
37Hendon£223.5m£1,605£2,379
38Nottingham North and Kimberley£175.2m£1,595£2,566
39Islington North£175.9m£1,584£2,110
40Ealing Central and Acton£220.0m£1,582£2,221
41Wolverhampton South East£201.9m£1,573£2,507
42Bradford South£176.4m£1,572£2,528
43Bolton South and Walkden£204.2m£1,565£2,491
44Stratford and Bow£214.8m£1,556£2,054
45Glasgow North East£179.0m£1,555£2,190
46Feltham and Heston£218.0m£1,552£2,302
47Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£166.7m£1,539£2,528
48Walthamstow£192.1m£1,539£2,160
49Derby South£192.7m£1,537£2,374
50Hartlepool£150.8m£1,536£2,514

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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