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Edmonton and Winchmore Hill has the highest spending on Universal Credit per person aged 16 to 64 in 2024-25.

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Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Beckenham and Penge: £1,364 per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, 361st of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £1,076
  2. £1,076 to £1,404
  3. £1,404 to £1,731
  4. £1,731 to £2,058
  5. £2,058 to £2,385
  6. £2,385 and over
Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 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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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, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 1Enfield North 2Brent East 3Hackney North and Stoke Newington 4Tottenham 5Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North 6Blackpool South 7Blackley and Middleton South 8Birmingham Erdington 9Queen's Park and Maida Vale 10Beckenham and Penge 361

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Beckenham and Penge, 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.

£73.8mMay 2023+£1.1mPopulation+£30.4mShare claiming+£20.4mPayment size£125.6mMay 2026
What changed: Universal Credit
May 2023£73.8m
Population+£1.1m
Share claiming+£30.4m
Payment size+£20.4m
May 2026£125.6m
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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£301.9m£2,413£3,786
2Enfield North£308.3m£2,418£3,773
3Brent East£337.2m£2,459£3,616
4Hackney North and Stoke Newington£289.4m£2,465£3,581
5Tottenham£344.5m£2,489£3,487
6Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£232.9m£1,857£2,979
7Blackpool South£201.3m£1,788£2,856
8Blackley and Middleton South£205.1m£1,778£2,852
9Birmingham Erdington£221.0m£1,751£2,743
10Queen's Park and Maida Vale£245.0m£1,966£2,735
11Lewisham East£218.3m£1,852£2,716
12Liverpool Walton£175.6m£1,714£2,715
13Croydon West£249.0m£1,887£2,713
14East Thanet£170.8m£1,608£2,712
15Barking£258.9m£1,817£2,710
16Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£197.6m£1,713£2,693
17Birmingham Northfield£179.6m£1,642£2,676
18Birmingham Yardley£198.6m£1,686£2,663
19Birmingham Perry Barr£218.5m£1,744£2,659
20East Ham£249.7m£1,830£2,657
21Bradford East£209.4m£1,689£2,649
22Gorton and Denton£200.8m£1,686£2,634
23Southgate and Wood Green£223.7m£1,752£2,606
24Walsall and Bloxwich£205.5m£1,643£2,604
25Ealing North£231.8m£1,724£2,574
26Nottingham North and Kimberley£175.2m£1,595£2,566
27Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£199.4m£1,645£2,550
28Bradford West£210.2m£1,655£2,547
29Bootle£167.8m£1,610£2,546
30Bradford South£176.4m£1,572£2,528
31Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£166.7m£1,539£2,528
32Leeds South£226.4m£1,713£2,526
33Hartlepool£150.8m£1,536£2,514
34Wolverhampton South East£201.9m£1,573£2,507
35Bolton South and Walkden£204.2m£1,565£2,491
36Bethnal Green and Stepney£254.5m£1,890£2,461
37Birkenhead£168.3m£1,533£2,446
38Easington£143.3m£1,490£2,424
39Knowsley£150.6m£1,521£2,420
40Erith and Thamesmead£228.9m£1,640£2,410
41Kingston upon Hull East£154.1m£1,477£2,401
42Birmingham Ladywood£294.0m£1,761£2,401
43Finchley and Golders Green£197.0m£1,515£2,384
44Hendon£223.5m£1,605£2,379
45Blackburn£177.7m£1,494£2,374
46Derby South£192.7m£1,537£2,374
47Coventry East£188.8m£1,507£2,368
48Southend East and Rochford£150.6m£1,474£2,361
49Clacton£128.7m£1,250£2,352
50Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton£173.3m£1,474£2,352

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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