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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

State Pension, Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance and winter heating payments, with the Scottish benefits that replace them. Per person figures use people aged 66 and over, the State Pension age. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

Under £12,290
£12,290 to £12,572
£12,572 to £12,854
£12,854 to £13,136
£13,136 to £13,417
£13,417 and over

Estimated value

Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, 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

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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 631 ranked constituencies. 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.

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.

What changed: State Pension
February 2023	£120.7bn
Population	+£2.3bn
Share claiming	+£5.4bn
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.

Expected level = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on pensioner benefits, 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank					Notes
1	Birmingham Ladywood	£124.5m	£769	£14,519
2	Liverpool Riverside	£166.8m	£1,309	£14,275
3	Glasgow East	£184.7m	£1,790	£14,160	Shared out, Estimated
4	Manchester Rusholme	£84.7m	£718	£14,136
5	Glasgow North East	£194.9m	£1,721	£13,987	Shared out, Estimated
6	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	£100.6m	£914	£13,861
7	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£115.3m	£992	£13,837
8	Lewisham North	£115.2m	£982	£13,794
9	Islington South and Finsbury	£142.8m	£1,182	£13,776
10	Glasgow North	£160.5m	£1,419	£13,756	Shared out, Estimated
11	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£105.2m	£789	£13,753
12	Glasgow South	£184.6m	£2,010	£13,722	Shared out, Estimated
13	Holborn and St Pancras	£147.4m	£1,326	£13,703
14	Bristol Central	£94.9m	£945	£13,697
15	Islington North	£134.1m	£1,211	£13,689
16	Leeds South	£165.1m	£1,280	£13,658
17	Leeds Central and Headingley	£101.4m	£899	£13,639
18	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£213.0m	£2,240	£13,633	Shared out, Estimated
19	Airdrie and Shotts	£211.6m	£2,261	£13,610	Shared out, Estimated
20	Liverpool Walton	£213.2m	£2,079	£13,607
21	Bradford East	£165.1m	£1,347	£13,579
22	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£103.3m	£993	£13,494
23	Knowsley	£206.1m	£2,121	£13,491
24	Tottenham	£152.7m	£1,105	£13,463
25	Stoke-on-Trent Central	£217.5m	£1,851	£13,460
26	Hartlepool	£241.2m	£2,514	£13,455
27	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£168.5m	£1,358	£13,451
28	Salford	£157.0m	£1,174	£13,417
29	Glasgow West	£186.4m	£1,840	£13,401	Shared out, Estimated
30	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£128.3m	£1,088	£13,357
31	Glasgow South West	£175.6m	£1,757	£13,343	Shared out, Estimated
32	Aberafan Maesteg	£242.6m	£2,631	£13,331
33	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£229.1m	£2,347	£13,328	Shared out, Estimated
34	Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton	£204.2m	£1,769	£13,316
35	Cardiff South and Penarth	£177.8m	£1,586	£13,311
36	Walthamstow	£123.8m	£999	£13,279
37	Poplar and Limehouse	£89.2m	£600	£13,272
38	Liverpool Wavertree	£189.0m	£1,770	£13,262
39	West Dunbartonshire	£232.2m	£2,533	£13,261	Shared out, Estimated
40	Thurrock	£167.2m	£1,355	£13,256
41	Swansea West	£234.2m	£2,104	£13,246
42	Telford	£212.2m	£1,947	£13,240
43	Northampton South	£215.9m	£1,898	£13,238
44	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£240.8m	£2,527	£13,231
45	Nottingham East	£140.7m	£1,139	£13,228
46	Coventry East	£202.0m	£1,653	£13,226
47	Hamilton and Clyde Valley	£249.6m	£2,554	£13,217	Shared out, Estimated
48	Broxbourne	£242.9m	£2,206	£13,217
49	Peckham	£115.5m	£1,040	£13,209
50	Manchester Central	£135.7m	£1,008	£13,205

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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