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Bristol Central 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 constituency

Selected Honiton and Sidmouth: £10,678 per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 504th of 631 constituencies.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £9,762
  2. £9,762 to £10,089
  3. £10,089 to £10,416
  4. £10,416 to £10,743
  5. £10,743 to £11,070
  6. £11,070 and over
Spending on State Pension, 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

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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 over1631Bristol Central 1Leeds Central and Headingley 2Northampton South 3Wokingham 4Harpenden and Berkhamsted 5Broxbourne 6Aylesbury 7Hertford and Stortford 8Rayleigh and Wickford 9Redditch 10Honiton and Sidmouth 504

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Honiton and Sidmouth, 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.

£248.5mFebruary 2023+£5.3mPopulation+£6.2mShare claiming+£69.8mPayment size£329.7mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£248.5m
Population+£5.3m
Share claiming+£6.2m
Payment size+£69.8m
March 2026£329.7m
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, 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 State Pension for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Bristol Central£86.0m£850£12,169
2Leeds Central and Headingley£85.8m£741£11,561
3Northampton South£191.4m£1,668£11,537
4Wokingham£209.8m£2,019£11,514
5Harpenden and Berkhamsted£217.8m£2,250£11,514
6Broxbourne£213.4m£1,918£11,509
7Aylesbury£194.1m£1,669£11,435
8Hertford and Stortford£210.4m£1,884£11,434
9Rayleigh and Wickford£245.6m£2,461£11,425
10Redditch£218.6m£2,188£11,415
11Calder Valley£236.3m£2,373£11,409
12St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire£209.6m£1,860£11,408
13St Albans£180.8m£1,770£11,401
14Hinckley and Bosworth£243.7m£2,407£11,395
15Chelmsford£201.4m£1,805£11,395
16Harlow£195.6m£1,683£11,382
17Orpington£207.2m£2,083£11,374
18Beckenham and Penge£187.8m£1,720£11,365
19Stoke-on-Trent Central£186.2m£1,560£11,362
20Chesham and Amersham£236.6m£2,328£11,357
21Brighton Pavilion£128.7m£1,223£11,357
22Tonbridge£232.0m£2,340£11,355
23Mid Buckinghamshire£238.7m£2,309£11,348
24North East Hertfordshire£240.4m£2,279£11,333
25South West Hertfordshire£201.9m£1,995£11,329
26South Northamptonshire£236.3m£2,290£11,324
27East Surrey£224.0m£2,187£11,319
28Kenilworth and Southam£252.7m£2,518£11,317
29York Central£164.4m£1,436£11,313
30North West Essex£239.9m£2,175£11,308
31Basildon and Billericay£195.5m£1,755£11,305
32Hitchin£197.8m£1,884£11,300
33Stretford and Urmston£178.6m£1,688£11,300
34Maldon£278.2m£2,695£11,298
35Gravesham£198.7m£1,796£11,298
36Chatham and Aylesford£185.0m£1,693£11,297
37Guildford£183.6m£1,721£11,296
38Tamworth£228.2m£2,201£11,291
39East Kilbride and Strathaven£213.1m£2,170£11,285
40Bathgate and Linlithgow£191.8m£2,009£11,283
41Stourbridge£212.7m£2,244£11,281
42North Bedfordshire£226.6m£2,094£11,281
43South Leicestershire£245.4m£2,275£11,279
44Mid Bedfordshire£207.2m£1,932£11,277
45Aldridge-Brownhills£231.1m£2,459£11,272
46Sefton Central£281.1m£3,011£11,269
47Leeds South West and Morley£179.6m£1,825£11,266
48Horsham£234.4m£2,157£11,265
49North West Leicestershire£226.5m£2,132£11,265
50Mid Dorset and North Poole£285.0m£2,915£11,264

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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