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Queen's Park and Maida Vale has the highest spending on Housing Benefit per resident in 2024-25.

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 £184
£184 to £272
£272 to £360
£360 to £448
£448 to £536
£536 and over

Spending on Housing Benefit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency. Equal-size areas: every constituency is one hexagon of the same size, so small city seats show as clearly as large rural ones. Hexagon layout by Open Innovations. 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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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, 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 Housing Benefit for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank
1	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£133.9m	£1,074
2	Birmingham Perry Barr	£107.5m	£858
3	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£98.3m	£837
4	Brent East	£111.3m	£812
5	Holborn and St Pancras	£83.5m	£747
6	Tottenham	£100.2m	£724
7	Kensington and Bayswater	£94.8m	£716
8	Islington North	£78.7m	£709
9	Birmingham Erdington	£88.9m	£704
10	Islington South and Finsbury	£81.6m	£672
11	Lewisham East	£78.4m	£665
12	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£78.4m	£665
13	Birmingham Ladywood	£109.7m	£657
14	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£75.4m	£603
15	Cities of London and Westminster	£78.6m	£599
16	Croydon West	£77.5m	£587
17	Birmingham Edgbaston	£64.4m	£584
18	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£70.3m	£584
19	Enfield North	£73.5m	£576
20	Glasgow North	£65.4m	£568
21	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£74.5m	£553
22	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	£58.5m	£552
23	West Ham and Beckton	£80.5m	£544
24	Hampstead and Highgate	£63.3m	£538
25	Peckham	£59.8m	£535
26	Lewisham West and East Dulwich	£52.3m	£526
27	Birmingham Yardley	£60.8m	£516
28	Liverpool Riverside	£67.4m	£512
29	Glasgow North East	£58.4m	£507
30	Dulwich and West Norwood	£52.8m	£501
31	Hammersmith and Chiswick	£58.5m	£494
32	Glasgow East	£52.0m	£493
33	East Ham	£67.2m	£493
34	Streatham and Croydon North	£59.2m	£491
35	Ealing Central and Acton	£67.2m	£484
36	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£49.8m	£481
37	Southgate and Wood Green	£60.3m	£472
38	Chelsea and Fulham	£56.6m	£463
39	Lewisham North	£53.8m	£459
40	Nottingham East	£57.6m	£458
41	Finchley and Golders Green	£59.4m	£457
42	Stratford and Bow	£62.7m	£454
43	Poplar and Limehouse	£67.3m	£450
44	Ealing North	£60.0m	£446
45	Tooting	£47.7m	£441
46	Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven	£42.9m	£438
47	Hornsey and Friern Barnet	£44.1m	£434
48	Erith and Thamesmead	£60.4m	£433
49	Birmingham Selly Oak	£47.5m	£433
50	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	£50.3m	£432

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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