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Broxbourne has the highest spending on State Pension per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

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, 2024-25, by local authority

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £10,394
  2. £10,394 to £10,703
  3. £10,703 to £11,012
  4. £11,012 to £11,321
  5. £11,321 to £11,630
  6. £11,630 and over
Spending on State Pension, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by local authority. 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 person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1348Broxbourne 1Redditch 2St Albans 3Chelmsford 4Hinckley and Bosworth 5East Hertfordshire 6Central Bedfordshire 7Tonbridge and Malling 8Blaby 9Guildford 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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Broxbourne£202.2m£1,985£12,125
2Redditch£192.4m£2,193£12,052
3St Albans£303.7m£2,015£12,027
4Chelmsford£414.2m£2,199£12,018
5Hinckley and Bosworth£303.3m£2,601£12,009
6East Hertfordshire£337.1m£2,150£12,009
7Central Bedfordshire£648.0m£2,050£11,951
8Tonbridge and Malling£300.7m£2,200£11,939
9Blaby£250.6m£2,324£11,929
10Guildford£294.0m£1,938£11,915
11Basildon£370.1m£1,919£11,911
12Hart£239.8m£2,327£11,907
13Gravesham£209.5m£1,892£11,904
14Rochford£233.7m£2,610£11,892
15Dacorum£320.9m£1,992£11,889
16Wokingham£366.6m£1,956£11,885
17Tandridge£217.9m£2,419£11,869
18Tamworth£176.5m£2,182£11,866
19Uttlesford£226.9m£2,390£11,854
20North Hertfordshire£307.9m£2,250£11,852
21Harlow£156.7m£1,597£11,848
22Welwyn Hatfield£221.6m£1,801£11,842
23Three Rivers£198.8m£2,080£11,839
24West Berkshire£375.7m£2,278£11,839
25Huntingdonshire£436.9m£2,295£11,832
26North West Leicestershire£250.8m£2,242£11,827
27Erewash£271.1m£2,382£11,826
28Bracknell Forest£232.3m£1,780£11,822
29Charnwood£407.9m£2,166£11,820
30Buckinghamshire£1.2bn£2,135£11,818
31Horsham£401.3m£2,656£11,804
32West Northamptonshire£856.8m£1,942£11,793
33Calderdale£458.8m£2,186£11,793
34High Peak£235.7m£2,565£11,791
35Brentwood£179.3m£2,271£11,789
36Warwick£329.6m£2,119£11,788
37Sevenoaks£304.2m£2,480£11,785
38Bromley£670.9m£2,005£11,781
39Falkirk£353.7m£2,213£11,771
40Broxtowe£277.2m£2,429£11,769
41Medway£532.7m£1,826£11,769
42Mole Valley£243.5m£2,750£11,766
43Maldon£200.1m£2,899£11,762
44Spelthorne£212.3m£1,995£11,761
45Stockport£682.0m£2,257£11,761
46North Northamptonshire£765.8m£2,040£11,756
47South Lanarkshire£765.7m£2,299£11,755
48Dudley£748.2m£2,259£11,750
49West Dunbartonshire£202.7m£2,282£11,750
50West Lothian£367.0m£1,971£11,749

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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