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Bradford West has the most people on carer benefits per 1,000 people aged 16 to 64 in March 2026.

People aged 16 to 64 receiving Carer's Allowance or Carer Support Payment, in each month with published figures. Money for people who care for a disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. In Scotland, Carer Support Payment replaces Carer's Allowance.

Per 1,000 people aged 16 to 64, low to high

Under 17.9
17.9 to 24.4
24.4 to 30.9
30.9 to 37.4
37.4 to 43.9
43.9 and over

Estimated value

People aged 16 to 64 receiving Carer's Allowance or Carer Support Payment, per 1,000 people aged 16 to 64, March 2026, 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

Total or per person

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 per 1,000 people aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

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.

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. Dumfries and Galloway has no figures for this benefit, so Great Britain is shown.

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.

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

People aged 16 to 64 receiving Carer's Allowance or Carer Support Payment, March 2026. Rank is for per 1,000 people aged 16 to 64, 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.

People aged 16 to 64 receiving Carer's Allowance or Carer Support Payment for every constituency, March 2026
Rank					Notes
1	Bradford West	5,527	43.5	67.0
2	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	4,904	42.5	66.8
3	Bradford East	5,042	40.7	63.8
4	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	4,771	38.0	61.0
5	Rotherham	4,062	35.4	56.3
6	Easington	3,279	34.1	55.5
7	Walsall and Bloxwich	4,353	34.8	55.2
8	Bradford South	3,801	33.9	54.5
9	Liverpool Walton	3,431	33.5	53.1
10	Aberafan Maesteg	2,885	31.1	51.2
11	Birmingham Yardley	3,806	32.3	51.0
12	Tipton and Wednesbury	3,732	31.8	50.8
13	Clacton	2,781	27.0	50.8
14	Hartlepool	3,013	30.7	50.2
15	Sheffield South East	3,270	30.5	49.0
16	Derby South	3,945	31.5	48.6
17	Barnsley South	3,235	30.0	48.1
18	Wolverhampton South East	3,872	30.2	48.1
19	Houghton and Sunderland South	3,105	29.3	47.9
20	Knowsley	2,962	29.9	47.6
21	Blackburn	3,559	29.9	47.5
22	Washington and Gateshead South	2,754	28.6	47.1
23	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	3,638	30.2	46.8
24	Blyth and Ashington	2,980	28.1	46.3
25	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	2,855	28.4	46.2
26	Birmingham Northfield	3,082	28.2	45.9
27	Blackpool South	3,230	28.7	45.8
28	North Ayrshire and Arran	2,436	26.8	45.5	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	3,556	29.3	45.5
30	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	2,680	28.0	45.4
31	Stockton North	2,954	28.2	45.3
32	Redcar	2,559	26.8	45.3
33	Kingston upon Hull East	2,906	27.9	45.3
34	Birkenhead	3,097	28.2	45.0
35	Dewsbury and Batley	3,064	28.7	44.9
36	Birmingham Erdington	3,578	28.4	44.4
37	Birmingham Perry Barr	3,645	29.1	44.4
38	Burnley	3,123	27.2	44.4
39	Great Yarmouth	2,563	25.5	43.9
40	Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton	3,231	27.5	43.8
41	Dudley	2,837	27.1	43.8
42	Halifax	3,018	27.1	43.8
43	Bolton South and Walkden	3,585	27.5	43.7
44	Jarrow and Gateshead East	2,584	26.8	43.7
45	East Thanet	2,733	25.7	43.4
46	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	2,858	26.4	43.3
47	Rawmarsh and Conisbrough	2,566	26.6	43.3
48	Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor	2,595	26.3	43.2
49	Rhondda and Ogmore	2,703	26.7	43.1
50	Doncaster North	2,587	26.1	43.0

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per 1,000 people aged 16 to 64 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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