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Broxbourne has the highest spending on State Pension per person aged 66 and over 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, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by local authority

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £9,860
  2. £9,860 to £10,153
  3. £10,153 to £10,446
  4. £10,446 to £10,739
  5. £10,739 to £11,032
  6. £11,032 and over
Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by local authority. 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 348 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1348Broxbourne 1Redditch 2St Albans 3Chelmsford 4Hinckley and Bosworth 5East Hertfordshire 6Central Bedfordshire 7Tonbridge and Malling 8Blaby 9Guildford 10

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+£2.3bnPopulation+£4.8bnShare claiming+£28.8bnPayment size£140.6bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£104.6bn
Population+£2.3bn
Share claiming+£4.8bn
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 = £12,909 + £3,353 × share aged 0 to 15 − £1,419 × share aged 66 and over − £40 × deprivation decile − £91 × ln(median pay) + £207 × Wales + £80 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.35. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on State Pension, 2024-25. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 350 rows are shown.

Spending on State Pension for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Broxbourne£191.8m£1,883£11,501
2Redditch£182.5m£2,080£11,432
3St Albans£288.0m£1,911£11,408
4Chelmsford£392.9m£2,086£11,399
5Hinckley and Bosworth£287.7m£2,467£11,391
6East Hertfordshire£319.7m£2,040£11,391
7Central Bedfordshire£614.6m£1,945£11,336
8Tonbridge and Malling£285.2m£2,087£11,324
9Blaby£237.7m£2,204£11,315
10Guildford£278.9m£1,838£11,302
11Basildon£351.0m£1,821£11,298
12Hart£227.5m£2,208£11,295
13Gravesham£198.7m£1,795£11,292
14Rochford£221.7m£2,476£11,280
15Dacorum£304.4m£1,889£11,277
16Wokingham£347.7m£1,855£11,273
17Tandridge£206.6m£2,295£11,258
18Tamworth£167.4m£2,070£11,255
19Uttlesford£215.3m£2,267£11,244
20North Hertfordshire£292.0m£2,135£11,242
21Harlow£148.6m£1,514£11,239
22Welwyn Hatfield£210.2m£1,708£11,232
23Three Rivers£188.5m£1,973£11,230
24West Berkshire£356.4m£2,161£11,229
25Huntingdonshire£414.4m£2,177£11,223
26North West Leicestershire£237.9m£2,126£11,218
27Erewash£257.1m£2,259£11,217
28Bracknell Forest£220.4m£1,688£11,213
29Charnwood£386.9m£2,055£11,212
30Buckinghamshire£1.2bn£2,025£11,209
31Horsham£380.6m£2,520£11,197
32West Northamptonshire£812.7m£1,842£11,186
33Calderdale£435.2m£2,074£11,186
34High Peak£223.6m£2,433£11,185
35Brentwood£170.1m£2,154£11,183
36Warwick£312.6m£2,010£11,181
37Sevenoaks£288.5m£2,352£11,179
38Bromley£636.4m£1,902£11,175
39Falkirk£335.5m£2,099£11,165
40Broxtowe£262.9m£2,304£11,163
41Medway£505.3m£1,732£11,163
42Mole Valley£231.0m£2,608£11,160
43Maldon£189.8m£2,750£11,157
44Spelthorne£201.4m£1,892£11,156
45Stockport£646.9m£2,141£11,156
46North Northamptonshire£726.4m£1,935£11,151
47South Lanarkshire£726.3m£2,181£11,150
48Dudley£709.7m£2,143£11,146
49West Dunbartonshire£192.3m£2,165£11,145
50West Lothian£348.1m£1,870£11,144

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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