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Queen's Park and Maida Vale has the highest total spending on Housing Benefit in 2023-24.

Help with rent. Most people who get it now are pensioners or live in supported housing. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £22.6m
£22.6m to £35.6m
£35.6m to £48.6m
£48.6m to £61.6m
£61.6m to £74.6m
£74.6m and over

Spending on Housing Benefit, total, 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 total are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Housing Benefit: yearly spending at the rate in March 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: Housing Benefit
March 2023	£17.4bn
Population	+£163.0m
Share claiming	−£7.8bn
Payment size	+£2.7bn
March 2026	£12.4bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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 = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Housing Benefit, 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Housing Benefit for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank
1	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£146.6m	£1,182
2	Brent East	£139.6m	£1,029
3	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£131.3m	£1,114
4	Tottenham	£122.7m	£887
5	Birmingham Ladywood	£107.6m	£664
6	Enfield North	£101.9m	£797
7	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£100.7m	£804
8	Birmingham Perry Barr	£97.9m	£784
9	Kensington and Bayswater	£97.8m	£725
10	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£91.3m	£684
11	East Ham	£90.0m	£662
12	Holborn and St Pancras	£89.5m	£805
13	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£88.2m	£759
14	Islington South and Finsbury	£87.2m	£722
15	Birmingham Erdington	£86.2m	£692
16	West Ham and Beckton	£86.0m	£597
17	Islington North	£84.1m	£760
18	Poplar and Limehouse	£82.9m	£558
19	Lewisham East	£82.5m	£705
20	Croydon West	£81.6m	£635
21	Cities of London and Westminster	£80.1m	£615
22	Stratford and Bow	£76.5m	£565
23	Ealing Central and Acton	£75.0m	£548
24	Southgate and Wood Green	£74.4m	£583
25	Finchley and Golders Green	£74.4m	£578
26	Hampstead and Highgate	£70.8m	£596
27	Ealing North	£68.0m	£515
28	Liverpool Riverside	£67.4m	£529
29	Ilford South	£66.0m	£488
30	Hendon	£65.1m	£478
31	Streatham and Croydon North	£64.1m	£533
32	Erith and Thamesmead	£64.1m	£467
33	Ealing Southall	£63.9m	£492
34	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£63.4m	£531
35	Hammersmith and Chiswick	£61.5m	£523
36	Glasgow North East	£61.2m	£541
37	Peckham	£61.2m	£551
38	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	£60.9m	£572
39	Chelsea and Fulham	£60.1m	£492
40	Birmingham Edgbaston	£59.4m	£549
41	Brent West	£59.3m	£416
42	Lewisham North	£59.2m	£504
43	Dulwich and West Norwood	£56.3m	£531
44	Nottingham East	£56.2m	£455
45	Glasgow North	£55.7m	£492
46	Hayes and Harlington	£55.4m	£406
47	Walthamstow	£55.3m	£446
48	Barking	£54.9m	£397
49	Harrow West	£54.7m	£437
50	Birmingham Yardley	£54.4m	£469

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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