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Bristol Central has the highest spending on State Pension per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

The State Pension, paid from State Pension age. It includes the new State Pension and the older basic and additional pensions. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £10,335
  2. £10,335 to £10,682
  3. £10,682 to £11,028
  4. £11,028 to £11,374
  5. £11,374 to £11,721
  6. £11,721 and over
Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 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

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 over1631Bristol Central 1Leeds Central and Headingley 2Northampton South 3Wokingham 4Harpenden and Berkhamsted 5Broxbourne 6Aylesbury 7Hertford and Stortford 8Rayleigh and Wickford 9Redditch 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.

£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 State Pension, 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 State Pension for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Bristol Central£91.1m£900£12,884
2Leeds Central and Headingley£90.8m£784£12,241
3Northampton South£202.6m£1,766£12,214
4Wokingham£222.1m£2,138£12,191
5Harpenden and Berkhamsted£230.6m£2,383£12,190
6Broxbourne£226.0m£2,030£12,185
7Aylesbury£205.5m£1,767£12,107
8Hertford and Stortford£222.7m£1,994£12,106
9Rayleigh and Wickford£260.0m£2,605£12,096
10Redditch£231.4m£2,317£12,085
11Calder Valley£250.2m£2,512£12,079
12St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire£221.9m£1,970£12,078
13St Albans£191.4m£1,874£12,071
14Hinckley and Bosworth£258.0m£2,548£12,065
15Chelmsford£213.3m£1,911£12,064
16Harlow£207.1m£1,782£12,050
17Orpington£219.4m£2,205£12,043
18Beckenham and Penge£198.8m£1,822£12,033
19Stoke-on-Trent Central£197.1m£1,652£12,029
20Chesham and Amersham£250.5m£2,465£12,024
21Brighton Pavilion£136.2m£1,295£12,024
22Tonbridge£245.6m£2,478£12,022
23Mid Buckinghamshire£252.7m£2,445£12,014
24North East Hertfordshire£254.6m£2,413£11,998
25South West Hertfordshire£213.8m£2,112£11,994
26South Northamptonshire£250.1m£2,424£11,989
27East Surrey£237.1m£2,316£11,984
28Kenilworth and Southam£267.5m£2,666£11,982
29York Central£174.0m£1,521£11,978
30North West Essex£254.0m£2,303£11,972
31Basildon and Billericay£207.0m£1,858£11,969
32Hitchin£209.5m£1,994£11,964
33Stretford and Urmston£189.1m£1,787£11,964
34Maldon£294.6m£2,853£11,962
35Gravesham£210.4m£1,901£11,962
36Chatham and Aylesford£195.9m£1,792£11,961
37Guildford£194.4m£1,822£11,960
38Tamworth£241.7m£2,331£11,954
39East Kilbride and Strathaven£225.6m£2,297£11,948
40Bathgate and Linlithgow£203.1m£2,127£11,946
41Stourbridge£225.2m£2,375£11,944
42North Bedfordshire£239.9m£2,217£11,944
43South Leicestershire£259.8m£2,409£11,942
44Mid Bedfordshire£219.4m£2,045£11,939
45Aldridge-Brownhills£244.7m£2,604£11,934
46Sefton Central£297.6m£3,188£11,931
47Leeds South West and Morley£190.1m£1,932£11,927
48Horsham£248.2m£2,284£11,927
49North West Leicestershire£239.9m£2,258£11,927
50Mid Dorset and North Poole£301.7m£3,087£11,926

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, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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