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Tottenham has the highest total spending on working-age benefits in 2024-25.

Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support and Carer's Allowance, with Carer Support Payment in Scotland. Disability benefits are paid at all ages, so they are shown separately. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on working-age benefits, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £100.1m
  2. £100.1m to £138.9m
  3. £138.9m to £177.7m
  4. £177.7m to £216.5m
  5. £216.5m to £255.4m
  6. £255.4m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on working-age benefits, total, 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 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Enfield North 1Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 2Hackney North and Stoke Newington 3Brent East 4Tottenham 5Queen's Park and Maida Vale 13Barking 38Bethnal Green and Stepney 58Birmingham Ladywood 61Poplar and Limehouse 105

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment: 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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

Benefit
£3.5bnFebruary 2023+£45.2mPopulation+£574.4mShare claiming+£257.4mPayment size£4.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023£3.5bn
Population+£45.2m
Share claiming+£574.4m
Payment size+£257.4m
March 2026£4.4bn
The share claiming is the number of people 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. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

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 working-age benefits, 2024-25. Rank is for total, 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 working-age benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Tottenham£416.2m£3,006£4,211
2Brent East£401.1m£2,925£4,301
3Enfield North£368.9m£2,893£4,515
4Birmingham Ladywood£367.5m£2,202£3,001
5Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£359.1m£2,871£4,503
6Hackney North and Stoke Newington£349.4m£2,976£4,323
7Poplar and Limehouse£317.6m£2,126£2,728
8Bethnal Green and Stepney£313.9m£2,331£3,035
9Queen's Park and Maida Vale£313.3m£2,514£3,498
10Barking£310.7m£2,180£3,251
11West Ham and Beckton£306.4m£2,071£2,809
12Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£299.5m£2,388£3,831
13East Ham£296.6m£2,174£3,157
14Croydon West£292.7m£2,218£3,189
15Leeds South£290.9m£2,201£3,246
16Birmingham Erdington£290.2m£2,300£3,602
17Erith and Thamesmead£280.3m£2,008£2,952
18Liverpool Riverside£278.8m£2,118£2,761
19Bradford West£276.8m£2,179£3,354
20Birmingham Perry Barr£275.6m£2,200£3,355
21Ealing North£275.5m£2,049£3,060
22Blackpool South£273.9m£2,432£3,886
23Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£273.7m£2,373£3,730
24Southgate and Wood Green£273.0m£2,138£3,180
25Bradford East£272.5m£2,199£3,448
26Bolton South and Walkden£271.7m£2,082£3,315
27Walsall and Bloxwich£271.2m£2,168£3,436
28Lewisham East£270.2m£2,293£3,362
29Blackley and Middleton South£270.2m£2,342£3,757
30Glasgow North East£269.6m£2,343£3,299Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Hendon£266.3m£1,912£2,834
32Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£265.9m£2,193£3,399
33Wolverhampton South East£263.8m£2,056£3,276
34Ealing Central and Acton£262.6m£1,888£2,651
35Stratford and Bow£262.4m£1,902£2,510
36Gorton and Denton£258.6m£2,171£3,393
37Feltham and Heston£257.3m£1,833£2,718
38Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£255.2m£1,816£2,685
39Birmingham Yardley£254.4m£2,159£3,410
40Derby South£254.2m£2,027£3,131
41Hackney South and Shoreditch£252.3m£2,140£2,753
42Liverpool Walton£251.5m£2,455£3,888
43Hayes and Harlington£248.6m£1,762£2,555
44Ilford South£248.4m£1,796£2,692
45Coventry East£247.4m£1,974£3,102
46Peterborough£246.7m£1,860£2,978
47Leicester West£244.3m£1,801£2,693
48Salford£242.7m£1,748£2,356
49Islington South and Finsbury£241.0m£1,986£2,579
50Nottingham North and Kimberley£238.8m£2,173£3,497

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total 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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