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City of London has the highest income tax paid by residents per resident 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.

Per resident, low to high

Under £4,086
£4,086 to £6,350
£6,350 to £8,614
£8,614 to £10,878
£10,878 to £13,142
£13,142 and over

No value

Income tax paid by residents, per resident, 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.

More ways to look at itHow ranks change, why spending changed, and spending compared with the expected level

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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 348 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident 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 per resident, 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	City of London	£685.9m	£47,255	Survey estimate
2	Kensington and Chelsea	£6.0bn	£40,282	Survey estimate
3	Westminster	£5.4bn	£25,018	Survey estimate
4	Camden	£5.2bn	£23,462	Survey estimate
5	Elmbridge	£2.7bn	£18,748	Survey estimate
6	Richmond upon Thames	£3.4bn	£17,206	Survey estimate
7	Hammersmith and Fulham	£3.1bn	£16,577	Survey estimate
8	Wandsworth	£5.1bn	£15,332	Survey estimate
9	St Albans	£1.9bn	£12,955	Survey estimate
10	Islington	£2.9bn	£12,679	Survey estimate
11	Sevenoaks	£1.3bn	£11,065	Survey estimate
12	Waverley	£1.4bn	£10,859	Survey estimate
13	Merton	£2.3bn	£10,521	Survey estimate
14	Windsor and Maidenhead	£1.6bn	£10,035	Survey estimate
15	Guildford	£1.5bn	£9,962	Survey estimate
16	Tandridge	£852.4m	£9,495	Survey estimate
17	Mole Valley	£831.6m	£9,394	Survey estimate
18	Brentwood	£725.3m	£9,269	Survey estimate
19	Lambeth	£3.0bn	£9,229	Survey estimate
20	Three Rivers	£875.4m	£9,210	Survey estimate
21	Southwark	£2.9bn	£9,116	Survey estimate
22	Woking	£922.5m	£8,749	Survey estimate
23	Barnet	£3.5bn	£8,631	Survey estimate
24	South Oxfordshire	£1.3bn	£8,609	Survey estimate
25	Bromley	£2.8bn	£8,306	Survey estimate
26	Winchester	£1.1bn	£8,146	Survey estimate
27	South Cambridgeshire	£1.4bn	£8,140	Survey estimate
28	Kingston upon Thames	£1.4bn	£8,120	Survey estimate
29	Buckinghamshire	£4.6bn	£8,111	Survey estimate
30	Tunbridge Wells	£949.9m	£8,069	Survey estimate
31	Wokingham	£1.5bn	£8,052	Survey estimate
32	Uttlesford	£754.9m	£8,042	Survey estimate
33	Hart	£816.2m	£7,980	Survey estimate
34	Reigate and Banstead	£1.2bn	£7,978	Survey estimate
35	Epping Forest	£1.1bn	£7,914	Survey estimate
36	Hertsmere	£860.1m	£7,850	Survey estimate
37	Epsom and Ewell	£647.5m	£7,834	Survey estimate
38	East Hertfordshire	£1.2bn	£7,832	Survey estimate
39	Surrey Heath	£726.4m	£7,795	Survey estimate
40	Tower Hamlets	£2.6bn	£7,676	Survey estimate
41	Haringey	£2.0bn	£7,668	Survey estimate
42	Cotswold	£694.6m	£7,576	Survey estimate
43	Runnymede	£672.7m	£7,358	Survey estimate
44	Cambridge	£1.1bn	£7,274	Survey estimate
45	Dacorum	£1.1bn	£7,115	Survey estimate
46	Hackney	£1.9bn	£7,086	Survey estimate
47	West Berkshire	£1.1bn	£6,809	Survey estimate
48	Greenwich	£2.0bn	£6,729	Survey estimate
49	Tonbridge and Malling	£903.9m	£6,671	Survey estimate
50	Mid Sussex	£1.1bn	£6,641	Survey estimate

League table of every local authority for the latest period

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

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