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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest total spending on Jobseeker's Allowance in 2023-24.

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, 2023-24, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £0.38m
  2. £0.38m to £0.55m
  3. £0.55m to £0.72m
  4. £0.72m to £0.89m
  5. £0.89m to £1.1m
  6. £1.1m and over
Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, 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

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 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Dudley 5Birmingham Edgbaston 6Hackney North and Stoke Newington 7Wolverhampton South East 11Hackney South and Shoreditch 12Birmingham Erdington 13Leeds South 34Nottingham East 36

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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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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, 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 Jobseeker's Allowance for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Birmingham Ladywood£2.5m£16£21
2Birmingham Perry Barr£1.8m£14£22
3Hackney South and Shoreditch£1.5m£13£17
4Hackney North and Stoke Newington£1.5m£13£18
5Wolverhampton South East£1.4m£11£17
6Birmingham Erdington£1.3m£11£17
7Nottingham East£1.3m£11£14
8Dudley£1.3m£13£21
9Birmingham Edgbaston£1.3m£12£18
10Leeds South£1.3m£9.81£15
11Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£1.2m£11£17
12Queen's Park and Maida Vale£1.2m£10£14
13Islington South and Finsbury£1.2m£10£13
14Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£1.2m£9.93£16
15Glasgow North East£1.2m£11£15
16Tipton and Wednesbury£1.2m£10£16
17Tottenham£1.2m£8.60£12
18Stourbridge£1.2m£13£21
19Sunderland Central£1.2m£11£18
20Ealing Central and Acton£1.2m£8.50£12
21South Shields£1.1m£13£21
22Bradford East£1.1m£9.22£14
23Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£1.1m£9.45£15
24Smethwick£1.1m£9.53£15
25West Bromwich£1.1m£9.89£16
26Milton Keynes Central£1.1m£8.25£12
27Nottingham North and Kimberley£1.1m£10£16
28Bolton North East£1.1m£9.33£15
29Islington North£1.1m£9.90£13
30Brent East£1.1m£8.03£12
31Birmingham Yardley£1.1m£9.38£15
32Stoke-on-Trent Central£1.1m£9.02£14
33Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham£1.1m£8.78£13
34Bolton South and Walkden£1.1m£8.18£13
35Northampton North£1.0m£7.91£12
36Erith and Thamesmead£1.0m£7.50£11
37Kingston upon Hull East£1.0m£9.89£16
38Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£1.0m£9.66£12
39Poplar and Limehouse£1.0m£6.91£8.88
40Bethnal Green and Stepney£1.0m£7.63£9.96
41Sheffield Heeley£0.99m£9.08£14
42Walthamstow£0.99m£8.00£11
43Bradford West£0.99m£7.90£12
44Liverpool Wavertree£0.99m£9.23£13
45Liverpool West Derby£0.99m£9.86£16
46Birmingham Selly Oak£0.98m£8.97£13
47Clapham and Brixton Hill£0.98m£9.43£12
48Ealing Southall£0.98m£7.52£11
49Battersea£0.98m£8.62£11
50Stoke-on-Trent North£0.97m£9.49£16

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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