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Clacton has the highest total spending on State Pension 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, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £123.4m
  2. £123.4m to £160.3m
  3. £160.3m to £197.3m
  4. £197.3m to £234.2m
  5. £234.2m to £271.2m
  6. £271.2m and over
Spending on State Pension, 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 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1631Arundel and South Downs 150Chichester 168Christchurch 206Clacton 270Bexhill and Battle 278Louth and Horncastle 331Bognor Regis and Littlehampton 349North Norfolk 412South Shropshire 470West Dorset 474

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 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 State Pension for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Clacton£342.5m£3,325£10,987
2Christchurch£330.0m£3,737£11,039
3West Dorset£327.5m£3,399£10,745
4Louth and Horncastle£323.2m£3,279£10,929
5North Norfolk£320.1m£3,682£10,836
6Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£316.0m£2,897£10,908
7Arundel and South Downs£312.8m£3,155£11,090
8South Shropshire£312.0m£3,236£10,755
9Chichester£310.8m£2,841£11,073
10Bexhill and Battle£310.8m£3,368£10,979
11Honiton and Sidmouth£310.8m£3,317£10,678
12West Worcestershire£310.3m£3,027£10,989
13New Forest West£310.2m£3,648£11,059
14Suffolk Coastal£306.8m£3,219£10,837
15Boston and Skegness£301.5m£2,562£10,799
16Torridge and Tavistock£298.0m£3,051£10,745
17Bridlington and The Wolds£297.3m£3,120£10,694
18Fylde£296.4m£2,922£10,609
19Thirsk and Malton£295.9m£2,963£10,851
20Skipton and Ripon£295.2m£2,944£10,947
21Lewes£295.0m£3,029£11,078
22Herne Bay and Sandwich£295.0m£2,877£10,866
23North Northumberland£294.8m£3,142£10,784
24South Holland and The Deepings£290.3m£2,541£10,998
25South Dorset£288.6m£2,869£10,726
26Worthing West£287.9m£2,799£10,793
27Stratford-on-Avon£287.5m£2,806£11,082
28North West Norfolk£287.2m£2,778£10,771
29South Devon£286.9m£3,108£10,655
30Waveney Valley£285.8m£3,128£10,850
31Mid Dorset and North Poole£285.0m£2,915£11,264
32North Herefordshire£284.9m£3,071£10,799
33Tiverton and Minehead£281.5m£3,025£10,748
34North Dorset£281.3m£2,938£11,035
35Sefton Central£281.1m£3,011£11,269
36Morecambe and Lunesdale£280.3m£2,809£10,974
37Hexham£279.0m£2,897£10,883
38Maldon£278.2m£2,695£11,298
39Penrith and Solway£277.7m£2,788£10,843
40Wyre Forest£277.3m£2,668£11,042
41Newark£276.1m£2,511£10,930
42Torbay£275.4m£2,629£10,498
43Angus and Perthshire Glens£274.2m£2,766£10,909
44North Devon£274.2m£2,709£10,812
45North Cornwall£273.9m£2,716£10,586
46South East Cornwall£273.8m£2,942£10,510
47Broadland and Fakenham£273.6m£2,817£10,868
48Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk£273.4m£2,829£10,846
49North Shropshire£273.3m£2,647£10,916
50Newton Abbot£273.3m£2,878£10,902

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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