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Queen's Park and Maida Vale has the highest spending on Housing Benefit per resident in 2023-24.

Help with rent. Most people who get it now are pensioners or live in supported housing. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per resident, low to high

Under £197
£197 to £296
£296 to £394
£394 to £492
£492 to £591
£591 and over

Spending on Housing Benefit, per resident, 2023-24, 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.

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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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Housing Benefit: yearly spending at the rate in March 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.

What changed: Housing Benefit
March 2023	£17.3bn
Population	+£162.6m
Share claiming	−£7.8bn
Payment size	+£2.9bn
March 2026	£12.5bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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.

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

Spending on Housing Benefit, 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Housing Benefit for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank
1	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£145.1m	£1,169
2	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£129.9m	£1,102
3	Brent East	£138.1m	£1,018
4	Tottenham	£121.3m	£878
5	Holborn and St Pancras	£88.5m	£797
6	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£99.6m	£795
7	Enfield North	£100.8m	£789
8	Birmingham Perry Barr	£96.8m	£775
9	Islington North	£83.2m	£752
10	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£87.3m	£751
11	Kensington and Bayswater	£96.7m	£717
12	Islington South and Finsbury	£86.3m	£714
13	Lewisham East	£81.6m	£697
14	Birmingham Erdington	£85.3m	£684
15	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£90.3m	£677
16	Birmingham Ladywood	£106.4m	£657
17	East Ham	£89.0m	£655
18	Croydon West	£80.7m	£628
19	Cities of London and Westminster	£79.3m	£609
20	West Ham and Beckton	£85.1m	£591
21	Hampstead and Highgate	£70.0m	£590
22	Southgate and Wood Green	£73.6m	£577
23	Finchley and Golders Green	£73.6m	£572
24	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	£60.2m	£566
25	Stratford and Bow	£75.7m	£559
26	Poplar and Limehouse	£82.0m	£552
27	Peckham	£60.6m	£545
28	Birmingham Edgbaston	£58.7m	£543
29	Ealing Central and Acton	£74.2m	£542
30	Lewisham West and East Dulwich	£53.1m	£536
31	Glasgow North East	£60.6m	£535
32	Streatham and Croydon North	£63.4m	£527
33	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£62.8m	£526
34	Dulwich and West Norwood	£55.7m	£526
35	Liverpool Riverside	£66.6m	£523
36	Hammersmith and Chiswick	£60.8m	£517
37	Ealing North	£67.2m	£510
38	Lewisham North	£58.5m	£499
39	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£51.4m	£494
40	Glasgow East	£50.8m	£492
41	Tooting	£52.7m	£490
42	Hornsey and Friern Barnet	£49.5m	£488
43	Chelsea and Fulham	£59.4m	£487
44	Glasgow North	£55.1m	£487
45	Ealing Southall	£63.2m	£486
46	Ilford South	£65.3m	£483
47	Hendon	£64.3m	£473
48	Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven	£45.5m	£469
49	Birmingham Yardley	£53.9m	£464
50	Erith and Thamesmead	£63.4m	£462

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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