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Stourbridge has the highest spending on Jobseeker's Allowance per person aged 16 to 64 in 2024-25.

Money for people looking for work, based on the National Insurance they have paid. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Birmingham Ladywood: £14 per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, 6th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £5.61
  2. £5.61 to £7.10
  3. £7.10 to £8.58
  4. £8.58 to £10
  5. £10 to £12
  6. £12 and over
Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, 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 person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Stourbridge 1Birmingham Perry Barr 2South Shields 3Dudley 4Hackney North and Stoke Newington 5Birmingham Ladywood 6Birmingham Edgbaston 7Milton Keynes North 8Milton Keynes Central 9Sunderland Central 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Birmingham Ladywood, Jobseeker's Allowance: 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.

£3.4mFebruary 2023+£0.07mPopulation−£2.7mShare claiming−£0.08mPayment size£0.67mMarch 2026
What changed: Jobseeker's Allowance
February 2023£3.4m
Population+£0.07m
Share claiming−£2.7m
Payment size−£0.08m
March 2026£0.67m
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Jobseeker's Allowance, 2024-25. Rank is for per person aged 16 to 64, 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 Jobseeker's Allowance for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Stourbridge£0.90m£9.51£16
2Birmingham Perry Barr£1.3m£10£15
3South Shields£0.80m£8.85£15
4Dudley£0.94m£9.01£15
5Hackney North and Stoke Newington£1.1m£9.77£14
6Birmingham Ladywood£1.7m£10£14
7Birmingham Edgbaston£0.99m£9.01£14
8Milton Keynes North£0.87m£8.35£14
9Milton Keynes Central£1.2m£9.03£13
10Sunderland Central£0.90m£8.58£13
11Hackney South and Shoreditch£1.2m£10£13
12Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£0.97m£8.39£13
13Birmingham Erdington£1.1m£8.34£13
14Washington and Gateshead South£0.76m£7.88£13
15Houghton and Sunderland South£0.83m£7.78£13
16Islington North£1.0m£9.42£13
17Folkestone and Hythe£0.68m£7.20£12
18Nottingham North and Kimberley£0.84m£7.68£12
19Tipton and Wednesbury£0.91m£7.72£12
20Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£0.96m£7.65£12
21Ealing Central and Acton£1.2m£8.74£12
22Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£1.00m£9.41£12
23Jarrow and Gateshead East£0.71m£7.40£12
24Clapham and Brixton Hill£0.98m£9.46£12
25Liverpool West Derby£0.76m£7.52£12
26Birmingham Yardley£0.89m£7.53£12
27Halesowen£0.69m£7.15£12
28Walthamstow£1.0m£8.39£12
29Wolverhampton South East£0.95m£7.38£12
30Battersea£1.0m£8.98£12
31Smethwick£0.90m£7.50£12
32Chingford and Woodford Green£0.81m£7.40£12
33Stoke-on-Trent North£0.74m£7.11£12
34West Bromwich£0.83m£7.28£11
35Bradford South£0.80m£7.13£11
36Stoke-on-Trent Central£0.89m£7.45£11
37Sheffield Heeley£0.81m£7.28£11
38Wycombe£0.83m£7.36£11
39Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£0.88m£7.33£11
40Islington South and Finsbury£1.1m£8.70£11
41Greenwich and Woolwich£1.0m£8.29£11
42Nottingham East£1.0m£8.19£11
43Buckingham and Bletchley£0.75m£6.79£11
44Kingston upon Hull East£0.71m£6.81£11
45Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy£0.65m£6.72£11
46Leeds North East£0.68m£6.89£11
47Huddersfield£0.83m£6.98£11
48Queen's Park and Maida Vale£0.97m£7.82£11
49Leeds South£0.97m£7.37£11
50Watford£0.83m£7.15£11

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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