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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

State Pension, Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance and winter heating payments, with the Scottish benefits that replace them. Per person figures use people aged 66 and over, the State Pension age. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Edinburgh South: £11,603 per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 609th of 631 constituencies.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £11,780
  2. £11,780 to £12,065
  3. £12,065 to £12,350
  4. £12,350 to £12,636
  5. £12,636 to £12,921
  6. £12,921 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 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

Total or per person

Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 631 ranked constituencies. 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, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1631Birmingham Ladywood 1Liverpool Riverside 2Manchester Rusholme 3Glasgow East 4Glasgow North East 5Lewisham North 6Hackney South and Shoreditch 7Glasgow North 8Bermondsey and Old Southwark 9Bristol Central 10Edinburgh South 609

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Edinburgh South, 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.

Benefit
£149.3mFebruary 2023+£3.9mPopulation+£6.3mShare claiming+£41.9mPayment size£201.5mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£149.3m
Population+£3.9m
Share claiming+£6.3m
Payment size+£41.9m
March 2026£201.5m
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 = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on pensioner benefits, 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Birmingham Ladywood£123.0m£737£14,134
2Liverpool Riverside£164.2m£1,248£13,864
3Manchester Rusholme£84.0m£694£13,658
4Glasgow East£182.0m£1,725£13,641Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
5Glasgow North East£192.6m£1,673£13,546Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
6Lewisham North£115.4m£984£13,404
7Hackney South and Shoreditch£114.8m£973£13,362
8Glasgow North£158.5m£1,376£13,344Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
9Bermondsey and Old Southwark£100.2m£906£13,340
10Bristol Central£93.9m£928£13,284
11Bethnal Green and Stepney£103.7m£770£13,242
12Islington North£132.5m£1,193£13,240
13Islington South and Finsbury£140.8m£1,160£13,232
14Leeds Central and Headingley£97.9m£845£13,191
15Glasgow South£181.3m£1,949£13,179Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Liverpool Walton£209.9m£2,049£13,147
17Holborn and St Pancras£145.0m£1,296£13,094
18Leeds South£160.7m£1,216£13,084
19Hartlepool£239.7m£2,441£13,082
20Coatbridge and Bellshill£209.8m£2,195£13,081Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Airdrie and Shotts£206.8m£2,199£13,068Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Hackney North and Stoke Newington£128.1m£1,091£13,033
23Clapham and Brixton Hill£102.4m£988£13,011
24Bradford East£161.9m£1,306£13,005
25Knowsley£204.0m£2,059£12,990
26Queen's Park and Maida Vale£167.5m£1,343£12,968
27Tottenham£151.2m£1,092£12,926
28Glasgow West£183.4m£1,796£12,890Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Salford£151.8m£1,093£12,887
30Glasgow South West£174.5m£1,720£12,885Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Stoke-on-Trent Central£210.8m£1,767£12,864
32Cardiff South and Penarth£173.8m£1,543£12,829
33Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton£198.3m£1,685£12,787
34Aberafan Maesteg£236.3m£2,544£12,786
35Manchester Central£132.1m£951£12,785
36Walthamstow£121.9m£977£12,776
37Broxbourne£236.7m£2,126£12,762
38Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£224.1m£2,292£12,759Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
39Stretford and Urmston£201.7m£1,906£12,759
40West Dunbartonshire£227.8m£2,485£12,756Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41Nottingham East£137.7m£1,095£12,755
42Liverpool Wavertree£184.6m£1,710£12,750
43Swansea West£226.8m£2,010£12,715
44Northampton South£210.9m£1,838£12,712
45Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£185.6m£1,479£12,711
46Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£233.4m£2,441£12,705
47Hamilton and Clyde Valley£243.9m£2,484£12,701Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Poplar and Limehouse£88.8m£595£12,700
49Smethwick£184.4m£1,539£12,696
50Luton South and South Bedfordshire£167.9m£1,252£12,692

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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