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Tottenham has the highest total spending on working-age benefits 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, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £94.5m
  2. £94.5m to £131.2m
  3. £131.2m to £167.9m
  4. £167.9m to £204.5m
  5. £204.5m to £241.2m
  6. £241.2m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on working-age benefits, 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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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 total 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 5Queen's Park and Maida Vale 13Barking 38Bethnal Green and Stepney 58Birmingham Ladywood 61Poplar and Limehouse 105

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 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 working-age benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Tottenham£393.1m£2,839£3,978
2Brent East£378.8m£2,762£4,062
3Enfield North£348.5m£2,733£4,264
4Birmingham Ladywood£347.1m£2,079£2,835
5Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£339.2m£2,711£4,254
6Hackney North and Stoke Newington£330.0m£2,811£4,083
7Poplar and Limehouse£299.9m£2,008£2,577
8Bethnal Green and Stepney£296.5m£2,202£2,866
9Queen's Park and Maida Vale£296.0m£2,374£3,304
10Barking£293.4m£2,059£3,071
11West Ham and Beckton£289.4m£1,956£2,653
12Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£282.9m£2,255£3,618
13East Ham£280.1m£2,053£2,981
14Croydon West£276.5m£2,095£3,012
15Leeds South£274.8m£2,079£3,066
16Birmingham Erdington£274.1m£2,173£3,402
17Erith and Thamesmead£264.8m£1,897£2,788
18Liverpool Riverside£263.3m£2,001£2,608
19Bradford West£261.5m£2,058£3,168
20Birmingham Perry Barr£260.3m£2,078£3,168
21Ealing North£260.3m£1,936£2,890
22Blackpool South£258.7m£2,297£3,671
23Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£258.5m£2,241£3,523
24Southgate and Wood Green£257.9m£2,020£3,004
25Bradford East£257.4m£2,077£3,257
26Bolton South and Walkden£256.6m£1,967£3,131
27Walsall and Bloxwich£256.1m£2,048£3,245
28Lewisham East£255.2m£2,165£3,176
29Blackley and Middleton South£255.2m£2,212£3,549
30Glasgow North East£254.7m£2,213£3,116Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Hendon£251.5m£1,805£2,677
32Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£251.1m£2,072£3,210
33Wolverhampton South East£249.2m£1,941£3,094
34Ealing Central and Acton£248.0m£1,784£2,504
35Stratford and Bow£247.9m£1,796£2,371
36Gorton and Denton£244.2m£2,051£3,204
37Feltham and Heston£243.1m£1,731£2,567
38Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£241.0m£1,716£2,536
39Birmingham Yardley£240.3m£2,039£3,221
40Derby South£240.1m£1,914£2,957
41Hackney South and Shoreditch£238.3m£2,021£2,601
42Liverpool Walton£237.5m£2,319£3,673
43Hayes and Harlington£234.8m£1,664£2,413
44Ilford South£234.7m£1,697£2,543
45Coventry East£233.7m£1,865£2,930
46Peterborough£233.0m£1,756£2,812
47Leicester West£230.7m£1,701£2,543
48Salford£229.2m£1,651£2,226
49Islington South and Finsbury£227.6m£1,876£2,436
50Nottingham North and Kimberley£225.6m£2,053£3,303

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total 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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