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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough has the highest spending on Income Support per resident in 2024-25.

An older benefit for people on a low income. Universal Credit has mostly replaced it. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Income Support, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected North Norfolk: £2.97 per resident, 2024-25, 422nd of 632 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £2.74
  2. £2.74 to £4.23
  3. £4.23 to £5.73
  4. £5.73 to £7.22
  5. £7.22 to £8.72
  6. £8.72 and over
Spending on Income Support, per resident, 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 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 1Liverpool Walton 2Glasgow North East 3Aberafan Maesteg 4Sheffield Heeley 5Middlesbrough and Thornaby East 6Tipton and Wednesbury 7Glenrothes and Mid Fife 8Birkenhead 9Liverpool Riverside 33North Norfolk 332

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

North Norfolk, 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.

Benefit
£296.0mFebruary 2023+£5.6mPopulation+£11.1mShare claiming+£37.9mPayment size£350.7mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£296.0m
Population+£5.6m
Share claiming+£11.1m
Payment size+£37.9m
March 2026£350.7m
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 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.

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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 Income Support, 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.

Spending on Income Support for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£1.7m£15£24
2Glasgow North East£1.7m£15£21
3Liverpool Walton£1.4m£14£22
4Aberafan Maesteg£1.1m£12£20
5Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£1.4m£12£18
6Sheffield Heeley£1.3m£12£18
7Tipton and Wednesbury£1.3m£11£18
8Birkenhead£1.2m£11£17
9Glenrothes and Mid Fife£0.99m£11£17
10Liverpool Riverside£1.4m£11£14
11Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£1.3m£10£17
12Sheffield South East£1.1m£10£17
13Rhondda and Ogmore£1.0m£10£17
14Knowsley£1.0m£10£16
15Liverpool West Derby£1.00m£9.84£16
16Glasgow South West£1.00m£9.82£14
17Redcar£0.93m£9.70£16
18Jarrow and Gateshead East£0.94m£9.70£16
19Glasgow West£0.99m£9.66£14
20Walsall and Bloxwich£1.2m£9.59£15
21Kingston upon Hull East£1.00m£9.57£16
22Birmingham Northfield£1.0m£9.49£15
23Liverpool Garston£0.89m£9.35£16
24Glasgow East£0.98m£9.30£13
25Nottingham North and Kimberley£1.0m£9.28£15
26Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£0.93m£9.24£15
27Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland£0.89m£9.23£16
28West Dunbartonshire£0.84m£9.18£15
29Wolverhampton South East£1.2m£9.10£15
30Bootle£0.94m£9.01£14
31Sunderland Central£0.94m£9.01£14
32Holborn and St Pancras£1.00m£8.94£12
33Easington£0.85m£8.83£14
34Bradford East£1.1m£8.76£14
35Islington North£0.96m£8.66£12
36Airdrie and Shotts£0.81m£8.65£13
37Bethnal Green and Stepney£1.2m£8.60£11
38Stockton North£0.90m£8.59£14
39Blackpool South£0.97m£8.59£14
40South Shields£0.77m£8.53£14
41Rotherham£0.98m£8.51£14
42Coatbridge and Bellshill£0.81m£8.50£13
43Bradford West£1.1m£8.44£13
44Birmingham Erdington£1.1m£8.40£13
45Clwyd North£0.85m£8.39£15
46Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£0.91m£8.36£14
47Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor£0.82m£8.34£14
48Queen's Park and Maida Vale£1.0m£8.30£12
49Islington South and Finsbury£1.0m£8.28£11
50Bradford South£0.92m£8.23£13

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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