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Clacton has the highest benefit spending per resident in 2024-25.

All the benefits on this site: pensioner, disability, carer, working-age and housing benefits paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In Scotland, it includes the Social Security Scotland benefits that replace some of them. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Benefit spending, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £3,678
  2. £3,678 to £4,135
  3. £4,135 to £4,591
  4. £4,591 to £5,048
  5. £5,048 to £5,505
  6. £5,505 and over
  • Estimated value
Benefit spending, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency. 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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1631Clacton 1Liverpool Walton 2Aberafan Maesteg 3Isle of Wight East 4Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 5Clwyd North 6North Ayrshire and Arran 7Easington 8Blackpool South 9Birkenhead 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?

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.

Chart step
This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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

Benefit spending, 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Clacton£711.9m£6,911
2Liverpool Walton£652.3m£6,368
3Aberafan Maesteg£587.7m£6,328
4Isle of Wight East£435.0m£6,269
5Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£597.3m£6,247
6Clwyd North£631.5m£6,232
7North Ayrshire and Arran£561.9m£6,181Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
8Easington£592.6m£6,161
9Blackpool South£692.4m£6,149
10Birkenhead£656.6m£5,981
11East Thanet£634.7m£5,974
12North Norfolk£518.7m£5,967
13Bootle£621.7m£5,963
14Louth and Horncastle£587.6m£5,961
15West Dunbartonshire£545.5m£5,950Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£737.7m£5,897
17Knowsley£582.9m£5,884
18Hartlepool£576.9m£5,876
19Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£589.4m£5,863
20Wallasey£574.2m£5,844
21Great Yarmouth£587.4m£5,843
22Liverpool West Derby£590.0m£5,833
23Rhondda and Ogmore£590.2m£5,832
24Torbay£609.4m£5,819
25Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£524.9m£5,814Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26South Shields£525.5m£5,811
27Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£522.3m£5,795Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28Blackpool North and Fleetwood£565.6m£5,790
29Christchurch£511.0m£5,789
30Lowestoft£551.7m£5,779
31Brent East£791.3m£5,770
32Dumfries and Galloway£555.4m£5,765Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Redcar£548.0m£5,730
34Enfield North£730.4m£5,728
35Bexhill and Battle£528.2m£5,724
36Queen's Park and Maida Vale£711.1m£5,704
37Llanelli£544.1m£5,701
38Hastings and Rye£599.0m£5,694
39Glenrothes and Mid Fife£530.7m£5,690Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40Boston and Skegness£669.6m£5,689
41Washington and Gateshead South£548.0m£5,683
42Bishop Auckland£536.7m£5,666
43Bridlington and The Wolds£538.9m£5,656
44Birmingham Erdington£710.9m£5,635
45Torfaen£529.7m£5,628
46Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£608.6m£5,619
47Hackney North and Stoke Newington£658.6m£5,609
48Folkestone and Hythe£525.3m£5,601
49Houghton and Sunderland South£594.0m£5,598
50Central Ayrshire£500.4m£5,586Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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