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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest total spending on Jobseeker's Allowance in 2024-25.

Money for people looking for work, based on the National Insurance they have paid. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £0.36m
  2. £0.36m to £0.50m
  3. £0.50m to £0.63m
  4. £0.63m to £0.76m
  5. £0.76m to £0.89m
  6. £0.89m and over
Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, 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

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 total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Birmingham Perry Barr 2Hackney North and Stoke Newington 5Birmingham Ladywood 6Milton Keynes Central 9Hackney South and Shoreditch 11Birmingham Erdington 13Ealing Central and Acton 21Walthamstow 28Islington South and Finsbury 40Tottenham 56

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Jobseeker's Allowance: 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.

£422.0mFebruary 2023+£4.2mPopulation−£76.4mShare claiming+£8.4mPayment size£358.2mMarch 2026
What changed: Jobseeker's Allowance
February 2023£422.0m
Population+£4.2m
Share claiming−£76.4m
Payment size+£8.4m
March 2026£358.2m
The share claiming is the number of people 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 Jobseeker's Allowance, 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 Jobseeker's Allowance for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Birmingham Ladywood£1.7m£10£14
2Birmingham Perry Barr£1.3m£10£15
3Milton Keynes Central£1.2m£9.03£13
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£1.2m£10£13
5Ealing Central and Acton£1.2m£8.74£12
6Hackney North and Stoke Newington£1.1m£9.77£14
7Tottenham£1.1m£7.67£11
8Islington South and Finsbury£1.1m£8.70£11
9Birmingham Erdington£1.1m£8.34£13
10Walthamstow£1.0m£8.39£12
11Islington North£1.0m£9.42£13
12Battersea£1.0m£8.98£12
13Nottingham East£1.0m£8.19£11
14Greenwich and Woolwich£1.0m£8.29£11
15Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£1.00m£9.41£12
16Birmingham Edgbaston£0.99m£9.01£14
17Clapham and Brixton Hill£0.98m£9.46£12
18Poplar and Limehouse£0.98m£6.57£8.43
19Leeds South£0.97m£7.37£11
20Queen's Park and Maida Vale£0.97m£7.82£11
21Ealing Southall£0.97m£7.36£11
22Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£0.97m£8.39£13
23Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£0.96m£7.65£12
24Wolverhampton South East£0.95m£7.38£12
25Dudley£0.94m£9.01£15
26Brent East£0.94m£6.84£10
27Barking£0.93m£6.52£9.73
28Tipton and Wednesbury£0.91m£7.72£12
29Hammersmith and Chiswick£0.91m£7.64£11
30Stourbridge£0.90m£9.51£16
31Sunderland Central£0.90m£8.58£13
32Smethwick£0.90m£7.50£12
33Erith and Thamesmead£0.89m£6.41£9.42
34Uxbridge and South Ruislip£0.89m£7.11£11
35Stoke-on-Trent Central£0.89m£7.45£11
36Birmingham Yardley£0.89m£7.53£12
37Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£0.88m£7.33£11
38Luton South and South Bedfordshire£0.87m£6.51£9.71
39Milton Keynes North£0.87m£8.35£14
40Stratford and Bow£0.87m£6.28£8.29
41Bethnal Green and Stepney£0.85m£6.34£8.26
42Streatham and Croydon North£0.85m£7.05£10
43Ealing North£0.85m£6.32£9.43
44Brent West£0.85m£5.84£8.34
45Nottingham North and Kimberley£0.84m£7.68£12
46West Ham and Beckton£0.84m£5.70£7.73
47Bermondsey and Old Southwark£0.84m£7.58£9.55
48West Bromwich£0.83m£7.28£11
49Southgate and Wood Green£0.83m£6.52£9.70
50Huddersfield£0.83m£6.98£11

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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