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Edmonton and Winchmore Hill has the highest spending on Universal Credit per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

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Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £903
  2. £903 to £1,184
  3. £1,184 to £1,465
  4. £1,465 to £1,745
  5. £1,745 to £2,026
  6. £2,026 and over
Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 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

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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 person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 1Enfield North 2Brent East 3Tottenham 4Croydon West 5Blackpool South 6Hackney North and Stoke Newington 7Blackley and Middleton South 8Barking 9East Thanet 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Universal Credit: yearly spending at the rate in May 2023 and in May 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.

£53.1bnMay 2023+£742.7mPopulation+£22.7bnShare claiming+£10.9bnPayment size£87.5bnMay 2026
What changed: Universal Credit
May 2023£53.1bn
Population+£742.7m
Share claiming+£22.7bn
Payment size+£10.9bn
May 2026£87.5bn
The share claiming is the number of households claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Universal Credit, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 16 to 64, 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 Universal Credit for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£249.8m£1,994£3,122
2Enfield North£248.1m£1,942£3,028
3Brent East£278.1m£2,049£3,013
4Tottenham£283.9m£2,054£2,870
5Croydon West£230.6m£1,794£2,586
6Blackpool South£176.8m£1,586£2,532
7Hackney North and Stoke Newington£205.7m£1,745£2,519
8Blackley and Middleton South£172.7m£1,510£2,420
9Barking£223.2m£1,613£2,413
10East Thanet£149.1m£1,419£2,402
11Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£183.1m£1,473£2,375
12Lewisham East£186.7m£1,596£2,344
13Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£177.2m£1,486£2,308
14Queen's Park and Maida Vale£206.3m£1,663£2,307
15Hartlepool£135.1m£1,408£2,301
16Gorton and Denton£172.1m£1,467£2,295
17Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£150.0m£1,391£2,276
18East Ham£212.6m£1,563£2,274
19Birmingham Erdington£180.9m£1,452£2,264
20Birmingham Northfield£147.9m£1,364£2,219
21Southgate and Wood Green£191.1m£1,498£2,217
22Leeds South£192.6m£1,494£2,210
23Birmingham Perry Barr£180.3m£1,444£2,205
24Bootle£143.0m£1,388£2,188
25Wolverhampton South East£171.4m£1,363£2,179
26Ealing North£191.5m£1,451£2,172
27Walsall and Bloxwich£165.7m£1,360£2,172
28Bolton South and Walkden£173.2m£1,349£2,153
29Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£154.9m£1,363£2,152
30Liverpool Walton£140.1m£1,366£2,148
31Bradford East£166.5m£1,358£2,134
32Erith and Thamesmead£197.2m£1,437£2,129
33Bethnal Green and Stepney£216.7m£1,624£2,120
34Feltham and Heston£196.9m£1,427£2,120
35Southend East and Rochford£132.8m£1,321£2,116
36Nottingham North and Kimberley£142.7m£1,308£2,112
37Birmingham Yardley£154.5m£1,330£2,105
38Dagenham and Rainham£166.3m£1,343£2,098
39Croydon East£149.6m£1,352£2,096
40Birkenhead£140.5m£1,302£2,085
41Easington£122.3m£1,283£2,080
42Bradford South£144.0m£1,292£2,074
43Coventry East£160.5m£1,313£2,072
44Great Yarmouth£120.6m£1,204£2,065
45Ilford South£185.0m£1,368£2,062
46Birmingham Ladywood£241.8m£1,493£2,058
47Peterborough£169.4m£1,285£2,052
48Finchley and Golders Green£167.4m£1,303£2,050
49Knowsley£124.9m£1,285£2,039
50Kingston upon Hull East£130.4m£1,254£2,035

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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