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Bristol Central has the highest spending on State Pension per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

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, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £8,981
  2. £8,981 to £9,289
  3. £9,289 to £9,597
  4. £9,597 to £9,905
  5. £9,905 to £10,213
  6. £10,213 and over
Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, 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.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1631Bristol Central 1Northampton South 2Wokingham 3Hertford and Stortford 4Harpenden and Berkhamsted 5Broxbourne 6Aylesbury 7Leeds Central and Headingley 8St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire 9Stoke-on-Trent Central 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+£2.1bnPopulation+£5.0bnShare claiming+£28.8bnPayment size£140.6bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£104.6bn
Population+£2.1bn
Share claiming+£5.0bn
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 = £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 State Pension, 2023-24. 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 State Pension for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Bristol Central£76.5m£762£11,041
2Northampton South£173.9m£1,529£10,661
3Wokingham£189.1m£1,850£10,632
4Hertford and Stortford£190.5m£1,747£10,624
5Harpenden and Berkhamsted£197.6m£2,058£10,609
6Broxbourne£194.5m£1,767£10,584
7Aylesbury£174.6m£1,536£10,572
8Leeds Central and Headingley£78.6m£697£10,570
9St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire£189.4m£1,720£10,545
10Stoke-on-Trent Central£170.3m£1,449£10,541
11North East Hertfordshire£218.3m£2,090£10,539
12Redditch£199.1m£1,998£10,536
13Chelmsford£184.8m£1,681£10,525
14Chesham and Amersham£215.9m£2,139£10,519
15Harlow£178.2m£1,559£10,516
16Calder Valley£213.5m£2,149£10,509
17Rayleigh and Wickford£224.2m£2,274£10,508
18Hinckley and Bosworth£221.4m£2,205£10,504
19Orpington£190.2m£1,923£10,501
20St Albans£164.5m£1,629£10,496
21Hitchin£179.0m£1,739£10,482
22Tonbridge£212.1m£2,152£10,479
23South Leicestershire£221.2m£2,107£10,476
24Mid Buckinghamshire£216.0m£2,120£10,472
25North Bedfordshire£204.2m£1,912£10,469
26Basildon and Billericay£177.6m£1,615£10,467
27Maldon£251.4m£2,457£10,460
28Beckenham and Penge£170.0m£1,574£10,459
29Bathgate and Linlithgow£173.4m£1,828£10,455
30South Northamptonshire£213.4m£2,071£10,448
31East Surrey£203.7m£2,003£10,446
32Kenilworth and Southam£229.5m£2,330£10,442
33Horsham£211.7m£1,981£10,439
34Stourbridge£194.1m£2,073£10,437
35South West Hertfordshire£183.1m£1,822£10,434
36Tamworth£206.8m£2,010£10,433
37North West Essex£215.2m£1,986£10,431
38Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard£185.1m£1,611£10,429
39Guildford£167.1m£1,586£10,426
40Mid Bedfordshire£185.3m£1,757£10,420
41North West Leicestershire£205.4m£1,968£10,420
42Chatham and Aylesford£168.3m£1,558£10,419
43Aldridge-Brownhills£213.1m£2,272£10,417
44Airdrie and Shotts£161.9m£1,730£10,417
45Sefton Central£256.7m£2,772£10,413
46East Kilbride and Strathaven£191.3m£1,964£10,413
47Hemel Hempstead£163.8m£1,545£10,412
48Corby and East Northamptonshire£203.4m£1,706£10,410
49Leeds South£125.8m£975£10,404
50Kingswinford and South Staffordshire£242.3m£2,683£10,403

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, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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