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Queen's Park and Maida Vale has the highest total spending on Housing Benefit in 2024-25.

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 £20.9m
£20.9m to £32.4m
£32.4m to £43.8m
£43.8m to £55.3m
£55.3m to £66.7m
£66.7m and over

Spending on Housing Benefit, total, 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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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, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Glasgow North East, 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	£61.1m
Population	+£0.79m
Share claiming	−£36.6m
Payment size	+£13.1m
March 2026	£38.4m

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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
Rank
1	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£133.4m	£1,070
2	Brent East	£110.9m	£808
3	Birmingham Ladywood	£109.3m	£655
4	Birmingham Perry Barr	£107.1m	£855
5	Tottenham	£99.8m	£721
6	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£97.8m	£833
7	Kensington and Bayswater	£94.4m	£713
8	Birmingham Erdington	£88.5m	£701
9	Holborn and St Pancras	£83.2m	£744
10	Islington South and Finsbury	£81.3m	£670
11	West Ham and Beckton	£80.1m	£542
12	Islington North	£78.3m	£706
13	Cities of London and Westminster	£78.3m	£597
14	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£78.0m	£662
15	Lewisham East	£78.0m	£662
16	Croydon West	£77.1m	£585
17	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£75.1m	£600
18	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£74.1m	£551
19	Enfield North	£73.1m	£574
20	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£70.1m	£581
21	Liverpool Riverside	£67.1m	£510
22	Poplar and Limehouse	£67.0m	£448
23	Ealing Central and Acton	£67.0m	£482
24	East Ham	£66.9m	£491
25	Glasgow North	£65.2m	£566
26	Birmingham Edgbaston	£64.1m	£582
27	Hampstead and Highgate	£63.1m	£536
28	Stratford and Bow	£62.4m	£452
29	Birmingham Yardley	£60.5m	£514
30	Erith and Thamesmead	£60.2m	£431
31	Southgate and Wood Green	£60.0m	£470
32	Ealing North	£59.8m	£444
33	Peckham	£59.6m	£532
34	Finchley and Golders Green	£59.2m	£455
35	Streatham and Croydon North	£59.0m	£488
36	Hammersmith and Chiswick	£58.2m	£491
37	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	£58.2m	£550
38	Glasgow North East	£58.1m	£505
39	Nottingham East	£57.4m	£456
40	Chelsea and Fulham	£56.3m	£461
41	Ealing Southall	£56.1m	£424
42	Lewisham North	£53.5m	£457
43	Ilford South	£53.3m	£385
44	Dulwich and West Norwood	£52.6m	£499
45	Lewisham West and East Dulwich	£52.0m	£524
46	Hendon	£51.9m	£373
47	Glasgow East	£51.8m	£491
48	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	£50.1m	£430
49	Greenwich and Woolwich	£49.9m	£403
50	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£49.6m	£479

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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