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Queen's Park and Maida Vale has the highest total spending on Housing Benefit in 2024-25.

Help with rent. Most people who get it now are pensioners or live in supported housing. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Total, low to high

Under £19.8m
£19.8m to £30.7m
£30.7m to £41.6m
£41.6m to £52.4m
£52.4m to £63.3m
£63.3m and over

Spending on Housing Benefit, total, 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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Each line is one of the 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Housing Benefit: yearly spending at the rate in March 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.

What changed: Housing Benefit
March 2023	£15.1bn
Population	+£149.8m
Share claiming	−£7.2bn
Payment size	+£4.2bn
March 2026	£12.2bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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.

Expected level = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Housing Benefit, 2024-25. Rank is for total, 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 Housing Benefit for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank
1	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£126.5m	£1,015
2	Brent East	£105.2m	£767
3	Birmingham Ladywood	£103.6m	£621
4	Birmingham Perry Barr	£101.6m	£811
5	Tottenham	£94.7m	£684
6	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£92.8m	£790
7	Kensington and Bayswater	£89.5m	£676
8	Birmingham Erdington	£83.9m	£665
9	Holborn and St Pancras	£78.9m	£706
10	Islington South and Finsbury	£77.1m	£635
11	West Ham and Beckton	£76.0m	£514
12	Islington North	£74.3m	£669
13	Cities of London and Westminster	£74.3m	£566
14	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£74.0m	£628
15	Lewisham East	£74.0m	£628
16	Croydon West	£73.2m	£554
17	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£71.2m	£569
18	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£70.3m	£522
19	Enfield North	£69.4m	£544
20	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£66.4m	£552
21	Liverpool Riverside	£63.7m	£484
22	Poplar and Limehouse	£63.5m	£425
23	Ealing Central and Acton	£63.5m	£457
24	East Ham	£63.5m	£465
25	Glasgow North	£61.8m	£537
26	Birmingham Edgbaston	£60.8m	£552
27	Hampstead and Highgate	£59.8m	£508
28	Stratford and Bow	£59.2m	£429
29	Birmingham Yardley	£57.4m	£487
30	Erith and Thamesmead	£57.1m	£409
31	Southgate and Wood Green	£57.0m	£446
32	Ealing North	£56.7m	£422
33	Peckham	£56.5m	£505
34	Finchley and Golders Green	£56.1m	£432
35	Streatham and Croydon North	£55.9m	£463
36	Hammersmith and Chiswick	£55.2m	£466
37	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	£55.2m	£521
38	Glasgow North East	£55.1m	£479
39	Nottingham East	£54.4m	£433
40	Chelsea and Fulham	£53.4m	£437
41	Ealing Southall	£53.2m	£402
42	Lewisham North	£50.8m	£433
43	Ilford South	£50.5m	£365
44	Dulwich and West Norwood	£49.9m	£474
45	Lewisham West and East Dulwich	£49.4m	£497
46	Hendon	£49.3m	£354
47	Glasgow East	£49.1m	£466
48	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	£47.5m	£408
49	Greenwich and Woolwich	£47.3m	£383
50	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£47.1m	£454

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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