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Hackney South and Shoreditch has the highest spending on Jobseeker's Allowance per resident in 2024-25.

Money for people looking for work, based on the National Insurance they have paid. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £3.49
  2. £3.49 to £4.55
  3. £4.55 to £5.61
  4. £5.61 to £6.66
  5. £6.66 to £7.72
  6. £7.72 and over
Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, 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.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Stourbridge 1Birmingham Perry Barr 2Hackney North and Stoke Newington 5Birmingham Ladywood 6Birmingham Edgbaston 7Milton Keynes Central 9Hackney South and Shoreditch 11Islington North 16Vauxhall and Camberwell Green 22Clapham and Brixton Hill 24

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Jobseeker's Allowance: 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.

£422.0mFebruary 2023+£4.2mPopulation−£76.4mShare claiming+£8.4mPayment size£358.2mMarch 2026
What changed: Jobseeker's Allowance
February 2023£422.0m
Population+£4.2m
Share claiming−£76.4m
Payment size+£8.4m
March 2026£358.2m
The share claiming is the number of people 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.

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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 Jobseeker's Allowance, 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 Jobseeker's Allowance for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Hackney South and Shoreditch£1.2m£10£13
2Birmingham Ladywood£1.7m£10£14
3Birmingham Perry Barr£1.3m£10£15
4Hackney North and Stoke Newington£1.1m£9.77£14
5Stourbridge£0.90m£9.51£16
6Clapham and Brixton Hill£0.98m£9.46£12
7Islington North£1.0m£9.42£13
8Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£1.00m£9.41£12
9Milton Keynes Central£1.2m£9.03£13
10Birmingham Edgbaston£0.99m£9.01£14
11Dudley£0.94m£9.01£15
12Battersea£1.0m£8.98£12
13South Shields£0.80m£8.85£15
14Ealing Central and Acton£1.2m£8.74£12
15Islington South and Finsbury£1.1m£8.70£11
16Sunderland Central£0.90m£8.58£13
17Walthamstow£1.0m£8.39£12
18Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£0.97m£8.39£13
19Milton Keynes North£0.87m£8.35£14
20Birmingham Erdington£1.1m£8.34£13
21Greenwich and Woolwich£1.0m£8.29£11
22Nottingham East£1.0m£8.19£11
23Washington and Gateshead South£0.76m£7.88£13
24Queen's Park and Maida Vale£0.97m£7.82£11
25Houghton and Sunderland South£0.83m£7.78£13
26Dulwich and West Norwood£0.82m£7.75£11
27Tipton and Wednesbury£0.91m£7.72£12
28Nottingham North and Kimberley£0.84m£7.68£12
29Tottenham£1.1m£7.67£11
30Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£0.96m£7.65£12
31Hammersmith and Chiswick£0.91m£7.64£11
32Bermondsey and Old Southwark£0.84m£7.58£9.55
33Tooting£0.82m£7.56£10
34Birmingham Yardley£0.89m£7.53£12
35Liverpool West Derby£0.76m£7.52£12
36Lewisham West and East Dulwich£0.75m£7.51£11
37Smethwick£0.90m£7.50£12
38Stoke-on-Trent Central£0.89m£7.45£11
39Jarrow and Gateshead East£0.71m£7.40£12
40Chingford and Woodford Green£0.81m£7.40£12
41Wolverhampton South East£0.95m£7.38£12
42Leeds South£0.97m£7.37£11
43Wycombe£0.83m£7.36£11
44Ealing Southall£0.97m£7.36£11
45Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£0.88m£7.33£11
46West Bromwich£0.83m£7.28£11
47Sheffield Heeley£0.81m£7.28£11
48Birmingham Selly Oak£0.79m£7.23£11
49Folkestone and Hythe£0.68m£7.20£12
50Halesowen£0.69m£7.15£12

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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