Who Gets What

How does my area compare?

City of London has the highest income tax paid by residents per resident in 2023-24.

Income tax paid by people who live in the area, estimated by HMRC from a sample survey. This is income tax only. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Income tax paid by residents, per resident, 2023-24, by local authority

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £4,041
  2. £4,041 to £6,281
  3. £6,281 to £8,520
  4. £8,520 to £10,760
  5. £10,760 to £13,000
  6. £13,000 and over
  • No value
Income tax paid by residents, per resident, 2023-24, by local authority. 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 348 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1348City of London 1Kensington and Chelsea 2Westminster 3Camden 4Elmbridge 5Richmond upon Thames 6Hammersmith and Fulham 7Wandsworth 8St Albans 9Islington 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, 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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

Benefit
£119.8bnFebruary 2023+£2.5bnPopulation+£5.2bnShare claiming+£16.3bnPayment size£143.9bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£119.8bn
Population+£2.5bn
Share claiming+£5.2bn
Payment size+£16.3bn
March 2026£143.9bn
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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

Chart step
This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
Expected level = £765 − £935 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,046 × share aged 66 and over − £177 × deprivation decile + £267 × ln(median pay) + £581 × Wales + £224 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.87. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Income tax paid by residents, 2023-24. 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 350 rows are shown.

Income tax paid by residents for every local authority, 2023-24
RankNotes
1City of London£678.4m£46,742Survey estimate
2Kensington and Chelsea£5.9bn£39,845Survey estimate
3Westminster£5.4bn£24,746Survey estimate
4Camden£5.1bn£23,207Survey estimate
5Elmbridge£2.6bn£18,544Survey estimate
6Richmond upon Thames£3.3bn£17,019Survey estimate
7Hammersmith and Fulham£3.1bn£16,397Survey estimate
8Wandsworth£5.1bn£15,165Survey estimate
9St Albans£1.9bn£12,814Survey estimate
10Islington£2.8bn£12,542Survey estimate
11Sevenoaks£1.3bn£10,945Survey estimate
12Waverley£1.4bn£10,741Survey estimate
13Merton£2.3bn£10,406Survey estimate
14Windsor and Maidenhead£1.6bn£9,926Survey estimate
15Guildford£1.5bn£9,854Survey estimate
16Tandridge£843.1m£9,392Survey estimate
17Mole Valley£822.6m£9,292Survey estimate
18Brentwood£717.4m£9,168Survey estimate
19Lambeth£2.9bn£9,129Survey estimate
20Three Rivers£865.9m£9,110Survey estimate
21Southwark£2.9bn£9,017Survey estimate
22Woking£912.5m£8,654Survey estimate
23Barnet£3.4bn£8,538Survey estimate
24South Oxfordshire£1.3bn£8,516Survey estimate
25Bromley£2.7bn£8,216Survey estimate
26Winchester£1.1bn£8,058Survey estimate
27South Cambridgeshire£1.4bn£8,051Survey estimate
28Kingston upon Thames£1.4bn£8,032Survey estimate
29Buckinghamshire£4.6bn£8,023Survey estimate
30Tunbridge Wells£939.6m£7,982Survey estimate
31Wokingham£1.5bn£7,965Survey estimate
32Uttlesford£746.7m£7,955Survey estimate
33Hart£807.4m£7,893Survey estimate
34Reigate and Banstead£1.2bn£7,891Survey estimate
35Epping Forest£1.1bn£7,828Survey estimate
36Hertsmere£850.7m£7,765Survey estimate
37Epsom and Ewell£640.5m£7,749Survey estimate
38East Hertfordshire£1.2bn£7,747Survey estimate
39Surrey Heath£718.5m£7,711Survey estimate
40Tower Hamlets£2.5bn£7,593Survey estimate
41Haringey£2.0bn£7,584Survey estimate
42Cotswold£687.1m£7,494Survey estimate
43Runnymede£665.4m£7,278Survey estimate
44Cambridge£1.1bn£7,195Survey estimate
45Dacorum£1.1bn£7,038Survey estimate
46Hackney£1.9bn£7,009Survey estimate
47West Berkshire£1.1bn£6,735Survey estimate
48Greenwich£2.0bn£6,656Survey estimate
49Tonbridge and Malling£894.1m£6,599Survey estimate
50Mid Sussex£1.0bn£6,568Survey estimate

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: HM Revenue and Customs, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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