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Christchurch has the highest spending on State Pension per resident in 2024-25.

The State Pension, paid from State Pension age. It includes the new State Pension and the older basic and additional pensions. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on State Pension, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £1,231
  2. £1,231 to £1,646
  3. £1,646 to £2,060
  4. £2,060 to £2,474
  5. £2,474 to £2,889
  6. £2,889 and over
Spending on State Pension, 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

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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 residentPer person aged 66 and over1631New Forest West 184Christchurch 206Clacton 270Bexhill and Battle 278Louth and Horncastle 331North Norfolk 412South Shropshire 470West Dorset 474Isle of Wight East 479Honiton and Sidmouth 504

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.

£120.7bnFebruary 2023+£2.3bnPopulation+£5.4bnShare claiming+£15.0bnPayment size£143.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£120.7bn
Population+£2.3bn
Share claiming+£5.4bn
Payment size+£15.0bn
March 2026£143.4bn
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 pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 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 = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on State Pension, 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 State Pension for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Christchurch£347.9m£3,940£11,638
2North Norfolk£337.4m£3,882£11,424
3New Forest West£327.0m£3,846£11,658
4West Dorset£345.2m£3,584£11,328
5Bexhill and Battle£327.6m£3,550£11,575
6Clacton£361.1m£3,505£11,583
7Honiton and Sidmouth£327.6m£3,497£11,258
8Isle of Wight East£240.5m£3,465£11,318
9Louth and Horncastle£340.8m£3,457£11,521
10South Shropshire£328.9m£3,412£11,338
11Suffolk Coastal£323.5m£3,394£11,425
12Arundel and South Downs£329.8m£3,326£11,692
13North Northumberland£310.8m£3,312£11,369
14Waveney Valley£301.3m£3,298£11,439
15Bridlington and The Wolds£313.4m£3,290£11,274
16South Devon£302.4m£3,277£11,233
17North Herefordshire£300.3m£3,237£11,385
18Torridge and Tavistock£314.1m£3,217£11,328
19Wirral West£286.5m£3,217£11,657
20Lewes£311.0m£3,193£11,679
21West Worcestershire£327.1m£3,191£11,586
22Tiverton and Minehead£296.8m£3,189£11,331
23Sefton Central£296.3m£3,174£11,880
24Thirsk and Malton£311.9m£3,123£11,439
25Westmorland and Lonsdale£285.5m£3,117£11,405
26Skipton and Ripon£311.2m£3,103£11,541
27South East Cornwall£288.6m£3,102£11,080
28North Dorset£296.5m£3,097£11,633
29Fylde£312.4m£3,081£11,185
30Mid Dorset and North Poole£300.4m£3,073£11,875
31Beverley and Holderness£282.3m£3,072£11,628
32Kingswinford and South Staffordshire£278.4m£3,066£11,835
33St Ives£273.8m£3,056£11,139
34Hexham£294.2m£3,054£11,474
35Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£333.1m£3,054£11,499
36Newton Abbot£288.1m£3,034£11,494
37Herne Bay and Sandwich£311.0m£3,033£11,455
38South Dorset£304.3m£3,025£11,308
39Glastonbury and Somerton£284.2m£3,023£11,624
40Wells and Mendip Hills£280.7m£3,020£11,581
41New Forest East£273.6m£3,003£11,761
42Staffordshire Moorlands£257.8m£3,002£11,707
43Isle of Wight West£216.9m£3,002£11,252
44Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe£277.5m£3,000£11,155
45Chichester£327.7m£2,995£11,674
46Derbyshire Dales£273.3m£2,991£11,671
47Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk£288.3m£2,983£11,435
48Richmond and Northallerton£281.9m£2,977£11,500
49Broadland and Fakenham£288.4m£2,970£11,458
50Dumfries and Galloway£286.0m£2,968£11,312

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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