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Kensington and Chelsea has the highest total income tax paid by residents in 2023-24.

Income tax paid by people who live in the area, estimated by HMRC from a sample survey. This is income tax only. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £654.3m
£654.3m to £1.2bn
£1.2bn to £1.7bn
£1.7bn to £2.2bn
£2.2bn to £2.7bn
£2.7bn and over

No value

Income tax paid by residents, total, 2023-24, by local authority. Boundaries are simplified. London is also shown larger, in a separate box. Northern Ireland is not covered. Every value is in the table below.

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Each line is one of the 348 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

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.

What changed: State Pension
February 2023	£120.7bn
Population	+£2.5bn
Share claiming	+£5.2bn
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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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 = £765 − £935 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,046 × share aged 66 and over − £177 × deprivation decile + £267 × ln(median pay) + £581 × Wales + £224 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.87. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Income tax paid by residents, 2023-24. Rank is for total, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 350 rows are shown.

Income tax paid by residents for every local authority, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Kensington and Chelsea	£6.0bn	£40,282	Survey estimate
2	Westminster	£5.4bn	£25,018	Survey estimate
3	Camden	£5.2bn	£23,462	Survey estimate
4	Wandsworth	£5.1bn	£15,332	Survey estimate
5	Buckinghamshire	£4.6bn	£8,111	Survey estimate
6	Barnet	£3.5bn	£8,631	Survey estimate
7	Richmond upon Thames	£3.4bn	£17,206	Survey estimate
8	Hammersmith and Fulham	£3.1bn	£16,577	Survey estimate
9	City of Edinburgh	£3.1bn	£5,908	Survey estimate
10	Lambeth	£3.0bn	£9,229	Survey estimate
11	Southwark	£2.9bn	£9,116	Survey estimate
12	Islington	£2.9bn	£12,679	Survey estimate
13	Bromley	£2.8bn	£8,306	Survey estimate
14	North Yorkshire	£2.7bn	£4,291	Survey estimate
15	Birmingham	£2.7bn	£2,286	Survey estimate
16	Leeds	£2.7bn	£3,196	Survey estimate
17	Elmbridge	£2.7bn	£18,748	Survey estimate
18	Tower Hamlets	£2.6bn	£7,676	Survey estimate
19	Cheshire East	£2.5bn	£5,941	Survey estimate
20	Wiltshire	£2.3bn	£4,509	Survey estimate
21	Ealing	£2.3bn	£6,113	Survey estimate
22	Merton	£2.3bn	£10,521	Survey estimate
23	Haringey	£2.0bn	£7,668	Survey estimate
24	Greenwich	£2.0bn	£6,729	Survey estimate
25	St Albans	£1.9bn	£12,955	Survey estimate
26	Hackney	£1.9bn	£7,086	Survey estimate
27	Somerset	£1.9bn	£3,213	Survey estimate
28	Croydon	£1.9bn	£4,633	Survey estimate
29	Bristol, City of	£1.8bn	£3,782	Survey estimate
30	West Northamptonshire	£1.8bn	£4,148	Survey estimate
31	Lewisham	£1.7bn	£5,780	Survey estimate
32	Brent	£1.7bn	£4,916	Survey estimate
32	Glasgow City	£1.7bn	£2,703	Survey estimate
34	Hounslow	£1.7bn	£5,569	Survey estimate
35	Windsor and Maidenhead	£1.6bn	£10,035	Survey estimate
36	Cheshire West and Chester	£1.5bn	£4,155	Survey estimate
36	Hillingdon	£1.5bn	£4,724	Survey estimate
38	Cornwall	£1.5bn	£2,593	Survey estimate
39	Wokingham	£1.5bn	£8,052	Survey estimate
39	Guildford	£1.5bn	£9,962	Survey estimate
39	Harrow	£1.5bn	£5,562	Survey estimate
42	Waverley	£1.4bn	£10,859	Survey estimate
42	Sheffield	£1.4bn	£2,514	Survey estimate
42	Redbridge	£1.4bn	£4,537	Survey estimate
45	Central Bedfordshire	£1.4bn	£4,634	Survey estimate
45	Dorset	£1.4bn	£3,719	Survey estimate
47	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£1.4bn	£3,500	Survey estimate
48	Enfield	£1.4bn	£4,241	Survey estimate
49	Kingston upon Thames	£1.4bn	£8,120	Survey estimate
50	South Cambridgeshire	£1.4bn	£8,140	Survey estimate

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are total unless a column says otherwise. Sources: HM Revenue and Customs, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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