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Queen's Park and Maida Vale has the highest spending on Housing Benefit per resident in 2024-25.

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Spending on Housing Benefit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Paisley and Renfrewshire South: £262 per resident, 2024-25, 176th of 632 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £183
  2. £183 to £271
  3. £271 to £358
  4. £358 to £446
  5. £446 to £533
  6. £533 and over
Spending on Housing Benefit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency. Equal-size areas: every constituency is one hexagon of the same size, so small city seats show as clearly as large rural ones. Hexagon layout by Open Innovations. 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 resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1632Queen's Park and Maida Vale 1Birmingham Perry Barr 2Hackney North and Stoke Newington 3Brent East 4Holborn and St Pancras 5Tottenham 6Kensington and Bayswater 7Islington North 8Birmingham Erdington 9Islington South and Finsbury 10Paisley and Renfrewshire South 176

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Paisley and Renfrewshire South, Housing Benefit: yearly spending at the rate in March 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.

£27.4mMarch 2023+£0.18mPopulation−£16.2mShare claiming+£5.6mPayment size£17.0mMarch 2026
What changed: Housing Benefit
March 2023£27.4m
Population+£0.18m
Share claiming−£16.2m
Payment size+£5.6m
March 2026£17.0m
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.

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.

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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

Spending on Housing Benefit, 2024-25. 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Housing Benefit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Queen's Park and Maida Vale£133.4m£1,070
2Birmingham Perry Barr£107.1m£855
3Hackney North and Stoke Newington£97.8m£833
4Brent East£110.9m£808
5Holborn and St Pancras£83.2m£744
6Tottenham£99.8m£721
7Kensington and Bayswater£94.4m£713
8Islington North£78.3m£706
9Birmingham Erdington£88.5m£701
10Islington South and Finsbury£81.3m£670
11Lewisham East£78.0m£662
12Hackney South and Shoreditch£78.0m£662
13Birmingham Ladywood£109.3m£655
14Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£75.1m£600
15Cities of London and Westminster£78.3m£597
16Croydon West£77.1m£585
17Birmingham Edgbaston£64.1m£582
18Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£70.1m£581
19Enfield North£73.1m£574
20Glasgow North£65.2m£566
21Bethnal Green and Stepney£74.1m£551
22Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£58.2m£550
23West Ham and Beckton£80.1m£542
24Hampstead and Highgate£63.1m£536
25Peckham£59.6m£532
26Lewisham West and East Dulwich£52.0m£524
27Birmingham Yardley£60.5m£514
28Liverpool Riverside£67.1m£510
29Glasgow North East£58.1m£505
30Dulwich and West Norwood£52.6m£499
31Hammersmith and Chiswick£58.2m£491
32Glasgow East£51.8m£491
33East Ham£66.9m£491
34Streatham and Croydon North£59.0m£488
35Ealing Central and Acton£67.0m£482
36Clapham and Brixton Hill£49.6m£479
37Southgate and Wood Green£60.0m£470
38Chelsea and Fulham£56.3m£461
39Lewisham North£53.5m£457
40Nottingham East£57.4m£456
41Finchley and Golders Green£59.2m£455
42Stratford and Bow£62.4m£452
43Poplar and Limehouse£67.0m£448
44Ealing North£59.8m£444
45Tooting£47.5m£439
46Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven£42.8m£436
47Hornsey and Friern Barnet£44.0m£433
48Erith and Thamesmead£60.2m£431
49Birmingham Selly Oak£47.3m£431
50Edinburgh East and Musselburgh£50.1m£430

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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