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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on Jobseeker's Allowance per resident in 2023-24.

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.

Per resident, low to high

Under £3.55
£3.55 to £4.97
£4.97 to £6.39
£6.39 to £7.81
£7.81 to £9.24
£9.24 and over

Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, per resident, 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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

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.

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.

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, 2023-24. 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, 2023-24
Rank
1	Birmingham Ladywood	£2.5m	£16	£21
2	Birmingham Perry Barr	£1.8m	£14	£22
3	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£1.5m	£13	£17
4	South Shields	£1.1m	£13	£21
5	Stourbridge	£1.2m	£13	£21
6	Dudley	£1.3m	£13	£21
7	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£1.5m	£13	£18
8	Birmingham Edgbaston	£1.3m	£12	£18
9	Sunderland Central	£1.2m	£11	£18
10	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£1.2m	£11	£17
11	Wolverhampton South East	£1.4m	£11	£17
12	Glasgow North East	£1.2m	£11	£15
13	Birmingham Erdington	£1.3m	£11	£17
14	Nottingham East	£1.3m	£11	£14
15	North Ayrshire and Arran	£0.97m	£11	£18
16	Tipton and Wednesbury	£1.2m	£10	£16
17	Islington South and Finsbury	£1.2m	£10	£13
18	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£1.1m	£10	£16
19	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£1.2m	£10	£14
20	Washington and Gateshead South	£0.95m	£9.96	£16
21	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£1.2m	£9.93	£16
22	Islington North	£1.1m	£9.90	£13
23	Kingston upon Hull East	£1.0m	£9.89	£16
24	West Bromwich	£1.1m	£9.89	£16
25	Liverpool West Derby	£0.99m	£9.86	£16
26	Leeds South	£1.3m	£9.81	£15
27	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	£1.0m	£9.66	£12
28	Folkestone and Hythe	£0.89m	£9.56	£16
29	Smethwick	£1.1m	£9.53	£15
30	Stoke-on-Trent North	£0.97m	£9.49	£16
31	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£1.1m	£9.45	£15
32	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£0.98m	£9.43	£12
33	Birmingham Yardley	£1.1m	£9.38	£15
34	Bolton North East	£1.1m	£9.33	£15
35	Liverpool Wavertree	£0.99m	£9.23	£13
36	Bradford East	£1.1m	£9.22	£14
37	Bootle	£0.95m	£9.21	£15
38	Houghton and Sunderland South	£0.95m	£9.13	£15
39	Sheffield Heeley	£0.99m	£9.08	£14
40	Stoke-on-Trent Central	£1.1m	£9.02	£14
41	Birmingham Selly Oak	£0.98m	£8.97	£13
42	Halesowen	£0.86m	£8.94	£15
43	Jarrow and Gateshead East	£0.86m	£8.94	£15
44	Birmingham Northfield	£0.97m	£8.93	£15
45	Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham	£1.1m	£8.78	£13
46	Wigan	£0.94m	£8.74	£14
47	Glasgow South West	£0.87m	£8.71	£13
48	Ashfield	£0.84m	£8.70	£14
49	Battersea	£0.98m	£8.62	£11
50	Tottenham	£1.2m	£8.60	£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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