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Broxbourne has the highest spending on State Pension per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

The State Pension, paid from State Pension age. It includes the new State Pension and the older basic and additional pensions. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, by local authority

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £10,010
  2. £10,010 to £10,305
  3. £10,305 to £10,600
  4. £10,600 to £10,895
  5. £10,895 to £11,191
  6. £11,191 and over
Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 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

Total or per person

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 person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1348Broxbourne 1East Hertfordshire 2Redditch 3Hinckley and Bosworth 4St Albans 5Chelmsford 6Central Bedfordshire 7Blaby 8North Hertfordshire 9Tonbridge and Malling 10

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.

£120.7bnFebruary 2023+£2.5bnPopulation+£5.2bnShare claiming+£15.0bnPayment size£143.4bnMarch 2026
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?

Spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 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 = £12,909 + £3,353 × share aged 0 to 15 − £1,419 × share aged 66 and over − £40 × deprivation decile − £91 × ln(median pay) + £207 × Wales + £80 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.35. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on State Pension, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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.

Spending on State Pension for every local authority, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Broxbourne£191.8m£1,903£11,585
2East Hertfordshire£316.3m£2,055£11,584
3Redditch£182.3m£2,083£11,558
4Hinckley and Bosworth£286.8m£2,488£11,543
5St Albans£286.8m£1,916£11,541
6Chelmsford£392.2m£2,110£11,531
7Central Bedfordshire£606.1m£1,957£11,507
8Blaby£237.1m£2,251£11,485
9North Hertfordshire£291.6m£2,151£11,463
10Tonbridge and Malling£283.7m£2,094£11,461
11Basildon£349.5m£1,832£11,437
12Hart£225.1m£2,201£11,430
13Dacorum£302.4m£1,907£11,427
14Guildford£277.3m£1,854£11,416
15Harlow£148.6m£1,542£11,407
16Tandridge£206.0m£2,294£11,405
17Wokingham£343.4m£1,856£11,402
18Bracknell Forest£216.1m£1,676£11,400
19Huntingdonshire£410.4m£2,193£11,399
20Tamworth£166.2m£2,065£11,397
21Welwyn Hatfield£208.6m£1,709£11,392
22Horsham£377.7m£2,526£11,382
23Three Rivers£187.4m£1,971£11,378
24West Berkshire£352.9m£2,150£11,377
25Erewash£257.6m£2,260£11,376
26Buckinghamshire£1.2bn£2,040£11,373
27Uttlesford£210.8m£2,246£11,373
28Gravesham£198.8m£1,822£11,370
29North West Leicestershire£236.2m£2,142£11,370
30Rochford£221.7m£2,508£11,367
31North Northamptonshire£721.9m£1,955£11,339
32Charnwood£385.5m£2,060£11,339
33Brentwood£170.4m£2,178£11,338
34Mid Sussex£353.3m£2,233£11,338
35Rugby£230.1m£1,923£11,337
36Spelthorne£201.9m£1,928£11,329
37Bromley£636.4m£1,914£11,326
38West Northamptonshire£807.4m£1,841£11,316
39Sevenoaks£288.4m£2,368£11,312
40High Peak£221.0m£2,409£11,308
41Stockport£647.2m£2,162£11,307
42Castle Point£248.6m£2,767£11,304
43Maldon£187.7m£2,746£11,304
44Dartford£174.6m£1,434£11,299
45Adur£166.7m£2,580£11,299
46Warwick£311.9m£2,030£11,298
47Stevenage£149.0m£1,650£11,297
48Stoke-on-Trent£483.9m£1,821£11,297
49West Lothian£343.8m£1,866£11,296
50Falkirk£334.5m£2,104£11,296

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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