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Queen's Park and Maida Vale has the highest spending on Housing Benefit per resident in 2024-25.

Help with rent. Most people who get it now are pensioners or live in supported housing. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Per resident, low to high

Under £174
£174 to £257
£257 to £340
£340 to £423
£423 to £506
£506 and over

Spending on Housing Benefit, per resident, 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.

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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 per resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Beverley and Holderness, Housing Benefit: yearly spending at the rate in March 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: Housing Benefit
March 2023	£10.1m
Population	+£0.10m
Share claiming	−£3.8m
Payment size	+£1.5m
March 2026	£7.9m

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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 = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Housing Benefit, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, 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 Housing Benefit for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank
1	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£126.5m	£1,015
2	Birmingham Perry Barr	£101.6m	£811
3	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£92.8m	£790
4	Brent East	£105.2m	£767
5	Holborn and St Pancras	£78.9m	£706
6	Tottenham	£94.7m	£684
7	Kensington and Bayswater	£89.5m	£676
8	Islington North	£74.3m	£669
9	Birmingham Erdington	£83.9m	£665
10	Islington South and Finsbury	£77.1m	£635
11	Lewisham East	£74.0m	£628
12	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£74.0m	£628
13	Birmingham Ladywood	£103.6m	£621
14	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£71.2m	£569
15	Cities of London and Westminster	£74.3m	£566
16	Croydon West	£73.2m	£554
17	Birmingham Edgbaston	£60.8m	£552
18	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£66.4m	£552
19	Enfield North	£69.4m	£544
20	Glasgow North	£61.8m	£537
21	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£70.3m	£522
22	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	£55.2m	£521
23	West Ham and Beckton	£76.0m	£514
24	Hampstead and Highgate	£59.8m	£508
25	Peckham	£56.5m	£505
26	Lewisham West and East Dulwich	£49.4m	£497
27	Birmingham Yardley	£57.4m	£487
28	Liverpool Riverside	£63.7m	£484
29	Glasgow North East	£55.1m	£479
30	Dulwich and West Norwood	£49.9m	£474
31	Hammersmith and Chiswick	£55.2m	£466
32	Glasgow East	£49.1m	£466
33	East Ham	£63.5m	£465
34	Streatham and Croydon North	£55.9m	£463
35	Ealing Central and Acton	£63.5m	£457
36	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£47.1m	£454
37	Southgate and Wood Green	£57.0m	£446
38	Chelsea and Fulham	£53.4m	£437
39	Lewisham North	£50.8m	£433
40	Nottingham East	£54.4m	£433
41	Finchley and Golders Green	£56.1m	£432
42	Stratford and Bow	£59.2m	£429
43	Poplar and Limehouse	£63.5m	£425
44	Ealing North	£56.7m	£422
45	Tooting	£45.1m	£417
46	Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven	£40.6m	£413
47	Hornsey and Friern Barnet	£41.7m	£410
48	Erith and Thamesmead	£57.1m	£409
49	Birmingham Selly Oak	£44.9m	£409
50	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	£47.5m	£408

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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