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Tottenham has the highest spending on working-age benefits per resident in 2024-25.

Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support and Carer's Allowance, with Carer Support Payment in Scotland. Disability benefits are paid at all ages, so they are shown separately. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on working-age benefits, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £853
  2. £853 to £1,119
  3. £1,119 to £1,385
  4. £1,385 to £1,651
  5. £1,651 to £1,918
  6. £1,918 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on working-age benefits, 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 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 641632Enfield North 1Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 2Hackney North and Stoke Newington 3Brent East 4Tottenham 5Liverpool Walton 6Blackpool South 7Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North 8Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 10Queen's Park and Maida Vale 13

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment: 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.

Benefit
£3.1bnFebruary 2023+£41.9mPopulation+£531.9mShare claiming+£649.7mPayment size£4.3bnMarch 2026
What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023£3.1bn
Population+£41.9m
Share claiming+£531.9m
Payment size+£649.7m
March 2026£4.3bn
The share claiming is the number of people 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. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

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 working-age benefits, 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 working-age benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Tottenham£393.1m£2,839£3,978
2Hackney North and Stoke Newington£330.0m£2,811£4,083
3Brent East£378.8m£2,762£4,062
4Enfield North£348.5m£2,733£4,264
5Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£339.2m£2,711£4,254
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£296.0m£2,374£3,304
7Liverpool Walton£237.5m£2,319£3,673
8Blackpool South£258.7m£2,297£3,671
9Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£282.9m£2,255£3,618
10Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£258.5m£2,241£3,523
11Glasgow North East£254.7m£2,213£3,116Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12Blackley and Middleton South£255.2m£2,212£3,549
13Bethnal Green and Stepney£296.5m£2,202£2,866
14Birmingham Erdington£274.1m£2,173£3,402
15Lewisham East£255.2m£2,165£3,176
16Bootle£220.8m£2,117£3,348
17Croydon West£276.5m£2,095£3,012
18Birmingham Ladywood£347.1m£2,079£2,835
19Leeds South£274.8m£2,079£3,066
20Birmingham Perry Barr£260.3m£2,078£3,168
21Bradford East£257.4m£2,077£3,257
22Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£251.1m£2,072£3,210
23Barking£293.4m£2,059£3,071
24Bradford West£261.5m£2,058£3,168
25East Ham£280.1m£2,053£2,981
26Nottingham North and Kimberley£225.6m£2,053£3,303
27Gorton and Denton£244.2m£2,051£3,204
28Walsall and Bloxwich£256.1m£2,048£3,245
29Knowsley£202.6m£2,046£3,255
30Birkenhead£224.4m£2,044£3,262
31Birmingham Yardley£240.3m£2,039£3,221
32Glasgow East£213.7m£2,026£2,885Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Birmingham Northfield£221.2m£2,023£3,296
34Hackney South and Shoreditch£238.3m£2,021£2,601
35Southgate and Wood Green£257.9m£2,020£3,004
36Poplar and Limehouse£299.9m£2,008£2,577
37Liverpool Riverside£263.3m£2,001£2,608
38Easington£191.8m£1,994£3,246
39Liverpool West Derby£201.2m£1,989£3,161
40Islington North£219.3m£1,975£2,631
41Bolton South and Walkden£256.6m£1,967£3,131
42Bradford South£220.4m£1,964£3,160
43West Ham and Beckton£289.4m£1,956£2,653
44Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£186.5m£1,950£3,158
45East Thanet£206.9m£1,948£3,285
46Wolverhampton South East£249.2m£1,941£3,094
47Ealing North£260.3m£1,936£2,890
48Peckham£215.4m£1,926£2,565
49Aberafan Maesteg£178.8m£1,925£3,173
50Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£208.4m£1,924£3,160

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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