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

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Spending on Universal Credit, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £77.1m
  2. £77.1m to £109.2m
  3. £109.2m to £141.3m
  4. £141.3m to £173.4m
  5. £173.4m to £205.5m
  6. £205.5m and over
Spending on Universal Credit, 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.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 1Enfield North 2Brent East 3Hackney North and Stoke Newington 4Tottenham 5Barking 15Bethnal Green and Stepney 36Birmingham Ladywood 42West Ham and Beckton 56Poplar and Limehouse 60

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 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 Universal Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Tottenham£344.5m£2,489£3,487
2Brent East£337.2m£2,459£3,616
3Enfield North£308.3m£2,418£3,773
4Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£301.9m£2,413£3,786
5Birmingham Ladywood£294.0m£1,761£2,401
6Hackney North and Stoke Newington£289.4m£2,465£3,581
7Poplar and Limehouse£265.3m£1,776£2,279
8Barking£258.9m£1,817£2,710
9Bethnal Green and Stepney£254.5m£1,890£2,461
10West Ham and Beckton£251.0m£1,697£2,302
11East Ham£249.7m£1,830£2,657
12Croydon West£249.0m£1,887£2,713
13Queen's Park and Maida Vale£245.0m£1,966£2,735
14Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£232.9m£1,857£2,979
15Ealing North£231.8m£1,724£2,574
16Erith and Thamesmead£228.9m£1,640£2,410
17Leeds South£226.4m£1,713£2,526
18Southgate and Wood Green£223.7m£1,752£2,606
19Hendon£223.5m£1,605£2,379
20Birmingham Erdington£221.0m£1,751£2,743
21Ealing Central and Acton£220.0m£1,582£2,221
22Birmingham Perry Barr£218.5m£1,744£2,659
23Lewisham East£218.3m£1,852£2,716
24Feltham and Heston£218.0m£1,552£2,302
25Stratford and Bow£214.8m£1,556£2,054
26Bradford West£210.2m£1,655£2,547
27Ilford South£209.7m£1,516£2,272
28Bradford East£209.4m£1,689£2,649
29Hayes and Harlington£206.1m£1,461£2,118
30Walsall and Bloxwich£205.5m£1,643£2,604
31Blackley and Middleton South£205.1m£1,778£2,852
32Bolton South and Walkden£204.2m£1,565£2,491
33Wolverhampton South East£201.9m£1,573£2,507
34Blackpool South£201.3m£1,788£2,856
35Gorton and Denton£200.8m£1,686£2,634
36Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£199.4m£1,645£2,550
37Ealing Southall£198.6m£1,502£2,199
38Birmingham Yardley£198.6m£1,686£2,663
39Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£197.6m£1,713£2,693
40Finchley and Golders Green£197.0m£1,515£2,384
41Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£196.2m£1,397£2,065
42Brent West£196.2m£1,354£1,934
43Liverpool Riverside£195.8m£1,488£1,939
44Brentford and Isleworth£193.8m£1,464£2,167
45Peterborough£193.5m£1,459£2,336
46Hackney South and Shoreditch£193.5m£1,641£2,111
47Dagenham and Rainham£192.9m£1,509£2,351
48Derby South£192.7m£1,537£2,374
49Walthamstow£192.1m£1,539£2,160
50Coventry East£188.8m£1,507£2,368

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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