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Liverpool Walton has the most people receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment per 1,000 residents in July 2026.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, in each month with published figures. Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment.

Per 1,000 residents, low to high

Under 46.9
46.9 to 62.3
62.3 to 77.6
77.6 to 93.0
93.0 to 108.4
108.4 and over

Estimated value

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, per 1,000 residents, July 2026, 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 per 1,000 residents are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

South Shields, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023	£53.5m
Population	+£0.45m
Share claiming	+£14.2m
Payment size	+£2.7m
July 2026	£70.8m

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

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 = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, July 2026. Rank is for per 1,000 residents, 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.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment for every constituency, July 2026
Rank				Notes
1	Liverpool Walton	15,955	155.8
2	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	13,714	143.4
3	Easington	13,682	142.2
4	Knowsley	13,686	138.2
5	Aberafan Maesteg	12,669	136.4
6	Bootle	13,780	132.2
7	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	13,214	131.4
8	Blackpool South	14,540	129.1
9	West Dunbartonshire	11,790	128.6	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
10	Rhondda and Ogmore	12,982	128.3
11	Birkenhead	14,041	127.9
12	Liverpool West Derby	12,765	126.2
13	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	11,360	126.0	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
14	Coatbridge and Bellshill	11,694	122.3	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
15	Glasgow South	11,364	122.1	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
16	Dundee Central	12,884	122.0	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
17	Airdrie and Shotts	11,463	121.9	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
18	North Ayrshire and Arran	11,077	121.8	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
19	Glasgow West	12,321	120.7	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
20	Hartlepool	11,830	120.5
21	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	11,573	118.4	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
22	Wallasey	11,623	118.3
23	Glasgow North	13,566	117.8	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
24	Glasgow South West	11,959	117.8	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
25	Glasgow East	12,393	117.5	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
26	Houghton and Sunderland South	12,416	117.0
27	Glasgow North East	13,322	115.8	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
28	Caerphilly	11,206	115.6
29	Barnsley South	12,411	115.0
30	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	10,527	113.9	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
31	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	13,129	113.8
32	Neath and Swansea East	11,598	113.7
33	Liverpool Riverside	14,926	113.4
34	Torfaen	10,651	113.2
35	Llanelli	10,741	112.6
36	Washington and Gateshead South	10,792	111.9
37	Jarrow and Gateshead East	10,764	111.6
38	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	10,784	111.6	Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
39	Clwyd North	11,250	111.0
40	Swansea West	12,392	109.8
41	Rotherham	12,571	109.5
42	Blyth and Ashington	11,586	109.3
43	Liverpool Garston	10,372	109.3
44	Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor	10,759	109.1
45	St Helens South and Whiston	10,626	108.2
46	South Shields	9,758	107.9
47	Widnes and Halewood	10,132	107.3
48	Barnsley North	11,510	106.8
49	Redcar	10,215	106.8
50	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	12,918	106.6

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per 1,000 residents unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Social Security Scotland, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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