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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

State Pension, Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance and winter heating payments, with the Scottish benefits that replace them. Per person figures use people aged 66 and over, the State Pension age. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £12,471
  2. £12,471 to £12,774
  3. £12,774 to £13,076
  4. £13,076 to £13,378
  5. £13,378 to £13,680
  6. £13,680 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 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

Total or per person

Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1631Birmingham Ladywood 1Liverpool Riverside 2Manchester Rusholme 3Glasgow East 4Glasgow North East 5Lewisham North 6Hackney South and Shoreditch 7Glasgow North 8Bermondsey and Old Southwark 9Bristol Central 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+£2.3bnPopulation+£5.4bnShare claiming+£16.3bnPayment size£143.9bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£119.8bn
Population+£2.3bn
Share claiming+£5.4bn
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?

Spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 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 = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on pensioner benefits, 2024-25. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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 pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Birmingham Ladywood£130.2m£780£14,964
2Liverpool Riverside£173.9m£1,321£14,678
3Manchester Rusholme£88.9m£735£14,460
4Glasgow East£192.7m£1,827£14,442Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
5Glasgow North East£203.9m£1,772£14,342Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
6Lewisham North£122.2m£1,042£14,191
7Hackney South and Shoreditch£121.5m£1,031£14,147
8Glasgow North£167.8m£1,457£14,127Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
9Bermondsey and Old Southwark£106.1m£959£14,123
10Bristol Central£99.4m£983£14,065
11Bethnal Green and Stepney£109.8m£816£14,019
12Islington North£140.2m£1,263£14,017
13Islington South and Finsbury£149.1m£1,229£14,009
14Leeds Central and Headingley£103.7m£895£13,966
15Glasgow South£192.0m£2,063£13,953Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Liverpool Walton£222.2m£2,169£13,919
17Holborn and St Pancras£153.5m£1,372£13,863
18Leeds South£170.1m£1,287£13,852
19Hartlepool£253.7m£2,584£13,851
20Coatbridge and Bellshill£222.1m£2,324£13,849Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Airdrie and Shotts£218.9m£2,328£13,836Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Hackney North and Stoke Newington£135.6m£1,155£13,798
23Clapham and Brixton Hill£108.4m£1,046£13,775
24Bradford East£171.4m£1,382£13,769
25Knowsley£216.0m£2,180£13,753
26Queen's Park and Maida Vale£177.3m£1,422£13,729
27Tottenham£160.1m£1,157£13,685
28Glasgow West£194.1m£1,901£13,647Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Salford£160.7m£1,157£13,644
30Glasgow South West£184.8m£1,821£13,641Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Stoke-on-Trent Central£223.2m£1,870£13,619
32Cardiff South and Penarth£184.0m£1,634£13,582
33Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton£209.9m£1,784£13,538
34Aberafan Maesteg£250.2m£2,693£13,537
35Manchester Central£139.8m£1,007£13,536
36Walthamstow£129.1m£1,035£13,526
37Broxbourne£250.6m£2,251£13,512
38Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£237.3m£2,427£13,508Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
39Stretford and Urmston£213.5m£2,018£13,508
40West Dunbartonshire£241.2m£2,631£13,506Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41Nottingham East£145.8m£1,160£13,505
42Liverpool Wavertree£195.4m£1,811£13,499
43Swansea West£240.1m£2,128£13,462
44Northampton South£223.2m£1,946£13,458
45Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£196.5m£1,566£13,458
46Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£247.1m£2,585£13,451
47Hamilton and Clyde Valley£258.2m£2,629£13,447Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Poplar and Limehouse£94.1m£630£13,446
49Smethwick£195.2m£1,630£13,442
50Luton South and South Bedfordshire£177.8m£1,325£13,438

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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