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Edmonton and Winchmore Hill has the highest spending on Universal Credit per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

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Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £833
  2. £833 to £1,092
  3. £1,092 to £1,351
  4. £1,351 to £1,611
  5. £1,611 to £1,870
  6. £1,870 and over
Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 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

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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 person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 1Enfield North 2Brent East 3Tottenham 4Croydon West 5Blackpool South 6Hackney North and Stoke Newington 7Blackley and Middleton South 8Barking 9East Thanet 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Universal Credit: yearly spending at the rate in May 2023 and in May 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.

£49.0bnMay 2023+£716.0mPopulation+£21.9bnShare claiming+£15.8bnPayment size£87.5bnMay 2026
What changed: Universal Credit
May 2023£49.0bn
Population+£716.0m
Share claiming+£21.9bn
Payment size+£15.8bn
May 2026£87.5bn
The share claiming is the number of households 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.

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.

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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

Spending on Universal Credit, 2023-24. Rank is for per person 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.

Spending on Universal Credit for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£230.5m£1,840£2,881
2Enfield North£228.9m£1,792£2,794
3Brent East£256.6m£1,891£2,780
4Tottenham£262.0m£1,895£2,648
5Croydon West£212.8m£1,655£2,386
6Blackpool South£163.2m£1,463£2,337
7Hackney North and Stoke Newington£189.8m£1,610£2,324
8Blackley and Middleton South£159.3m£1,394£2,233
9Barking£206.0m£1,488£2,227
10East Thanet£137.6m£1,310£2,216
11Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£168.9m£1,359£2,191
12Lewisham East£172.3m£1,473£2,163
13Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£163.5m£1,372£2,130
14Queen's Park and Maida Vale£190.4m£1,534£2,128
15Hartlepool£124.7m£1,300£2,123
16Gorton and Denton£158.8m£1,353£2,118
17Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£138.4m£1,283£2,100
18East Ham£196.2m£1,442£2,098
19Birmingham Erdington£167.0m£1,340£2,089
20Birmingham Northfield£136.5m£1,258£2,048
21Southgate and Wood Green£176.3m£1,382£2,046
22Leeds South£177.7m£1,378£2,039
23Birmingham Perry Barr£166.4m£1,332£2,034
24Bootle£131.9m£1,281£2,019
25Wolverhampton South East£158.1m£1,258£2,010
26Ealing North£176.7m£1,339£2,005
27Walsall and Bloxwich£152.9m£1,255£2,004
28Bolton South and Walkden£159.8m£1,245£1,987
29Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£143.0m£1,258£1,986
30Liverpool Walton£129.3m£1,261£1,982
31Bradford East£153.6m£1,253£1,969
32Erith and Thamesmead£182.0m£1,326£1,965
33Bethnal Green and Stepney£199.9m£1,498£1,956
34Feltham and Heston£181.7m£1,317£1,956
35Southend East and Rochford£122.5m£1,219£1,953
36Nottingham North and Kimberley£131.7m£1,207£1,949
37Birmingham Yardley£142.5m£1,227£1,942
38Dagenham and Rainham£153.5m£1,239£1,936
39Croydon East£138.0m£1,248£1,934
40Birkenhead£129.7m£1,202£1,924
41Easington£112.9m£1,184£1,919
42Bradford South£132.9m£1,192£1,914
43Coventry East£148.1m£1,212£1,912
44Great Yarmouth£111.3m£1,111£1,906
45Ilford South£170.7m£1,262£1,903
46Birmingham Ladywood£223.1m£1,377£1,899
47Peterborough£156.3m£1,186£1,893
48Finchley and Golders Green£154.5m£1,202£1,892
49Knowsley£115.2m£1,186£1,881
50Kingston upon Hull East£120.4m£1,157£1,878

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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