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Clacton has the highest benefit spending per resident in 2024-25.

All the benefits on this site: pensioner, disability, carer, working-age and housing benefits paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In Scotland, it includes the Social Security Scotland benefits that replace some of them. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Benefit spending, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Redcar: £5,413 per resident, 2024-25, 33rd of 631 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £3,474
  2. £3,474 to £3,905
  3. £3,905 to £4,337
  4. £4,337 to £4,768
  5. £4,768 to £5,200
  6. £5,200 and over
  • Estimated value
Benefit spending, per resident, 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 resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1631Clacton 1Liverpool Walton 2Aberafan Maesteg 3Isle of Wight East 4Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 5Clwyd North 6North Ayrshire and Arran 7Easington 8Blackpool South 9Birkenhead 10Redcar 33

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Redcar, 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
£177.4mFebruary 2023+£4.8mPopulation+£7.0mShare claiming+£50.4mPayment size£239.6mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£177.4m
Population+£4.8m
Share claiming+£7.0m
Payment size+£50.4m
March 2026£239.6m
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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
Expected level = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Benefit spending, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Clacton£672.4m£6,528
2Liverpool Walton£616.1m£6,014
3Aberafan Maesteg£555.1m£5,977
4Isle of Wight East£410.9m£5,921
5Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£564.1m£5,900
6Clwyd North£596.5m£5,886
7North Ayrshire and Arran£530.8m£5,838Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
8Easington£559.7m£5,819
9Blackpool South£654.0m£5,808
10Birkenhead£620.2m£5,649
11East Thanet£599.5m£5,643
12North Norfolk£489.9m£5,636
13Bootle£587.2m£5,632
14Louth and Horncastle£555.0m£5,630
15West Dunbartonshire£515.2m£5,620Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£696.8m£5,570
17Knowsley£550.6m£5,558
18Hartlepool£544.9m£5,550
19Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£556.7m£5,538
20Wallasey£542.3m£5,520
21Great Yarmouth£554.8m£5,519
22Liverpool West Derby£557.2m£5,509
23Rhondda and Ogmore£557.4m£5,508
24Torbay£575.6m£5,496
25Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£495.8m£5,492Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26South Shields£496.3m£5,489
27Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£493.3m£5,473Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28Blackpool North and Fleetwood£534.3m£5,468
29Christchurch£482.7m£5,467
30Lowestoft£521.1m£5,458
31Brent East£747.4m£5,450
32Dumfries and Galloway£524.6m£5,445Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Redcar£517.6m£5,413
34Enfield North£689.8m£5,410
35Bexhill and Battle£498.9m£5,407
36Queen's Park and Maida Vale£671.7m£5,388
37Llanelli£513.9m£5,385
38Hastings and Rye£565.7m£5,378
39Glenrothes and Mid Fife£501.2m£5,374Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40Boston and Skegness£632.4m£5,374
41Washington and Gateshead South£517.6m£5,367
42Bishop Auckland£506.9m£5,352
43Bridlington and The Wolds£509.0m£5,343
44Birmingham Erdington£671.5m£5,322
45Torfaen£500.4m£5,316
46Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£574.8m£5,307
47Hackney North and Stoke Newington£622.1m£5,298
48Folkestone and Hythe£496.2m£5,291
49Houghton and Sunderland South£561.1m£5,287
50Central Ayrshire£472.6m£5,276Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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