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Tottenham has the highest spending on Universal Credit per resident in 2024-25.

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Spending on Universal Credit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £728
  2. £728 to £960
  3. £960 to £1,191
  4. £1,191 to £1,423
  5. £1,423 to £1,655
  6. £1,655 and over
Spending on Universal Credit, 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 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident are drawn in dark lines.

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 6Queen's Park and Maida Vale 10Lewisham East 11Croydon West 13Bethnal Green and Stepney 36

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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

£53.1bnMay 2023+£742.7mPopulation+£22.7bnShare claiming+£10.9bnPayment size£87.5bnMay 2026
What changed: Universal Credit
May 2023£53.1bn
Population+£742.7m
Share claiming+£22.7bn
Payment size+£10.9bn
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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI 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 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.

Spending on Universal Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Tottenham£364.8m£2,635£3,691
2Hackney North and Stoke Newington£306.4m£2,610£3,791
3Brent East£357.0m£2,603£3,829
4Enfield North£326.4m£2,560£3,995
5Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£319.6m£2,555£4,008
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£259.4m£2,081£2,896
7Bethnal Green and Stepney£269.5m£2,001£2,605
8Croydon West£263.6m£1,998£2,873
9Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£246.6m£1,966£3,154
10Lewisham East£231.1m£1,961£2,876
11East Ham£264.3m£1,937£2,813
12Barking£274.1m£1,924£2,869
13Blackpool South£213.1m£1,893£3,024
14Blackley and Middleton South£217.1m£1,882£3,020
15Poplar and Limehouse£280.9m£1,880£2,413
16Birmingham Ladywood£311.2m£1,865£2,542
17Southgate and Wood Green£236.9m£1,855£2,759
18Birmingham Erdington£233.9m£1,854£2,904
19Birmingham Perry Barr£231.3m£1,846£2,815
20Ealing North£245.4m£1,825£2,725
21Liverpool Walton£185.9m£1,815£2,874
22Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£209.2m£1,814£2,851
23Leeds South£239.7m£1,814£2,674
24West Ham and Beckton£265.7m£1,796£2,437
25Bradford East£221.7m£1,788£2,804
26Gorton and Denton£212.6m£1,785£2,789
27Birmingham Yardley£210.3m£1,785£2,819
28Peckham£198.1m£1,771£2,359
29Bradford West£222.6m£1,752£2,697
30Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£211.2m£1,742£2,699
31Walsall and Bloxwich£217.6m£1,740£2,757
32Birmingham Northfield£190.1m£1,738£2,833
33Hackney South and Shoreditch£204.9m£1,737£2,235
34Erith and Thamesmead£242.3m£1,736£2,552
35Bootle£177.7m£1,704£2,695
36East Thanet£180.8m£1,702£2,871
37Hendon£236.7m£1,699£2,519
38Nottingham North and Kimberley£185.5m£1,688£2,716
39Islington North£186.2m£1,677£2,234
40Ealing Central and Acton£232.9m£1,675£2,351
41Wolverhampton South East£213.7m£1,665£2,654
42Bradford South£186.7m£1,664£2,677
43Bolton South and Walkden£216.1m£1,657£2,637
44Stratford and Bow£227.4m£1,648£2,175
45Glasgow North East£189.5m£1,646£2,318
46Feltham and Heston£230.8m£1,644£2,437
47Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£176.5m£1,630£2,676
48Walthamstow£203.3m£1,629£2,287
49Derby South£204.0m£1,627£2,514
50Hartlepool£159.7m£1,626£2,662

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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