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Bristol Central has the highest spending on State Pension per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

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, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £9,732
  2. £9,732 to £10,066
  3. £10,066 to £10,400
  4. £10,400 to £10,734
  5. £10,734 to £11,068
  6. £11,068 and over
Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 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.
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 1Northampton South 2Wokingham 3Hertford and Stortford 4Harpenden and Berkhamsted 5Broxbourne 6Aylesbury 7Leeds Central and Headingley 8St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire 9Stoke-on-Trent 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.

£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, 2023-24. 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, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Bristol Central£82.9m£826£11,965
2Northampton South£188.4m£1,657£11,554
3Wokingham£204.9m£2,004£11,522
4Hertford and Stortford£206.5m£1,893£11,513
5Harpenden and Berkhamsted£214.1m£2,230£11,497
6Broxbourne£210.8m£1,915£11,470
7Aylesbury£189.3m£1,665£11,457
8Leeds Central and Headingley£85.2m£755£11,455
9St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire£205.3m£1,864£11,428
10Stoke-on-Trent Central£184.6m£1,571£11,423
11North East Hertfordshire£236.6m£2,265£11,422
12Redditch£215.8m£2,166£11,418
13Chelmsford£200.3m£1,822£11,406
14Chesham and Amersham£234.0m£2,319£11,400
15Harlow£193.1m£1,690£11,397
16Calder Valley£231.4m£2,329£11,389
17Rayleigh and Wickford£243.0m£2,465£11,388
18Hinckley and Bosworth£239.9m£2,390£11,383
19Orpington£206.1m£2,084£11,381
20St Albans£178.3m£1,765£11,375
21Hitchin£194.0m£1,884£11,360
22Tonbridge£229.9m£2,332£11,356
23South Leicestershire£239.7m£2,284£11,353
24Mid Buckinghamshire£234.1m£2,298£11,349
25North Bedfordshire£221.3m£2,072£11,346
26Basildon and Billericay£192.4m£1,750£11,344
27Maldon£272.5m£2,662£11,336
28Beckenham and Penge£184.3m£1,706£11,335
29Bathgate and Linlithgow£187.9m£1,982£11,330
30South Northamptonshire£231.2m£2,245£11,323
31East Surrey£220.8m£2,171£11,321
32Kenilworth and Southam£248.7m£2,525£11,316
33Horsham£229.4m£2,147£11,313
34Stourbridge£210.4m£2,247£11,311
35South West Hertfordshire£198.4m£1,975£11,307
36Tamworth£224.1m£2,178£11,307
37North West Essex£233.2m£2,152£11,305
38Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard£200.6m£1,746£11,303
39Guildford£181.1m£1,719£11,299
40Mid Bedfordshire£200.8m£1,904£11,292
41North West Leicestershire£222.6m£2,133£11,292
42Chatham and Aylesford£182.4m£1,689£11,291
43Aldridge-Brownhills£231.0m£2,462£11,290
44Airdrie and Shotts£175.5m£1,875£11,289
45Sefton Central£278.1m£3,004£11,285
46East Kilbride and Strathaven£207.4m£2,129£11,284
47Hemel Hempstead£177.5m£1,674£11,284
48Corby and East Northamptonshire£220.4m£1,848£11,281
49Leeds South£136.3m£1,057£11,275
50Kingswinford and South Staffordshire£262.6m£2,908£11,274

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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