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Tottenham has the highest spending on Universal Credit per resident in 2024-25.

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Spending on Universal Credit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Leeds South: £1,806 per resident, 2024-25, 23rd of 632 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £725
  2. £725 to £956
  3. £956 to £1,186
  4. £1,186 to £1,417
  5. £1,417 to £1,648
  6. £1,648 and over
Spending on Universal Credit, 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 641632Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 1Enfield North 2Brent East 3Hackney North and Stoke Newington 4Tottenham 5Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North 6Queen's Park and Maida Vale 10Lewisham East 11Croydon West 13Leeds South 32Bethnal Green and Stepney 36

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Leeds South, Universal Credit: yearly spending at the rate in May 2023 and in May 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.

£180.9mMay 2023+£6.5mPopulation+£72.5mShare claiming+£38.0mPayment size£298.0mMay 2026
What changed: Universal Credit
May 2023£180.9m
Population+£6.5m
Share claiming+£72.5m
Payment size+£38.0m
May 2026£298.0m
The share claiming is the number of households 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 Universal Credit, 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 Universal Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Tottenham£363.2m£2,624£3,676
2Hackney North and Stoke Newington£305.1m£2,599£3,775
3Brent East£355.5m£2,592£3,812
4Enfield North£325.0m£2,549£3,978
5Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£318.3m£2,544£3,991
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£258.3m£2,072£2,884
7Bethnal Green and Stepney£268.3m£1,992£2,594
8Croydon West£262.5m£1,989£2,860
9Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£245.6m£1,958£3,140
10Lewisham East£230.1m£1,953£2,864
11East Ham£263.2m£1,929£2,801
12Barking£273.0m£1,916£2,857
13Blackpool South£212.2m£1,885£3,011
14Blackley and Middleton South£216.2m£1,874£3,007
15Poplar and Limehouse£279.7m£1,872£2,403
16Birmingham Ladywood£309.9m£1,857£2,531
17Southgate and Wood Green£235.9m£1,848£2,748
18Birmingham Erdington£233.0m£1,846£2,891
19Birmingham Perry Barr£230.3m£1,838£2,803
20Ealing North£244.4m£1,817£2,714
21Liverpool Walton£185.1m£1,807£2,862
22Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£208.3m£1,806£2,839
23Leeds South£238.7m£1,806£2,663
24West Ham and Beckton£264.6m£1,789£2,426
25Bradford East£220.7m£1,781£2,792
26Gorton and Denton£211.7m£1,777£2,777
27Birmingham Yardley£209.4m£1,777£2,807
28Peckham£197.3m£1,764£2,349
29Bradford West£221.7m£1,744£2,685
30Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£210.3m£1,735£2,688
31Walsall and Bloxwich£216.7m£1,732£2,746
32Birmingham Northfield£189.3m£1,731£2,821
33Hackney South and Shoreditch£204.0m£1,730£2,226
34Erith and Thamesmead£241.3m£1,728£2,541
35Bootle£177.0m£1,697£2,684
36East Thanet£180.1m£1,695£2,859
37Hendon£235.7m£1,692£2,508
38Nottingham North and Kimberley£184.7m£1,681£2,705
39Islington North£185.4m£1,670£2,225
40Ealing Central and Acton£231.9m£1,668£2,341
41Wolverhampton South East£212.8m£1,658£2,643
42Bradford South£185.9m£1,657£2,665
43Bolton South and Walkden£215.2m£1,650£2,626
44Stratford and Bow£226.5m£1,641£2,166
45Glasgow North East£188.7m£1,639£2,308
46Feltham and Heston£229.8m£1,637£2,427
47Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£175.7m£1,623£2,665
48Walthamstow£202.5m£1,622£2,277
49Derby South£203.2m£1,620£2,503
50Hartlepool£159.0m£1,620£2,651

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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