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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

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.

Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected South West Hertfordshire: £13,042 per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 161st of 631 constituencies.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £12,419
  2. £12,419 to £12,719
  3. £12,719 to £13,020
  4. £13,020 to £13,321
  5. £13,321 to £13,622
  6. £13,622 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 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 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, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1631Birmingham Ladywood 1Liverpool Riverside 2Manchester Rusholme 3Glasgow East 4Glasgow North East 5Lewisham North 6Hackney South and Shoreditch 7Glasgow North 8Bermondsey and Old Southwark 9Bristol Central 10South West Hertfordshire 161

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

South West Hertfordshire, 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.

Benefit
£185.5mFebruary 2023+£3.1mPopulation+£8.9mShare claiming+£22.1mPayment size£219.7mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£185.5m
Population+£3.1m
Share claiming+£8.9m
Payment size+£22.1m
March 2026£219.7m
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 = £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, 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Birmingham Ladywood£129.7m£777£14,901
2Liverpool Riverside£173.1m£1,316£14,616
3Manchester Rusholme£88.5m£732£14,399
4Glasgow East£191.9m£1,819£14,381Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
5Glasgow North East£203.0m£1,764£14,281Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
6Lewisham North£121.7m£1,038£14,131
7Hackney South and Shoreditch£121.0m£1,026£14,087
8Glasgow North£167.1m£1,451£14,067Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
9Bermondsey and Old Southwark£105.6m£955£14,063
10Bristol Central£99.0m£978£14,005
11Bethnal Green and Stepney£109.4m£812£13,960
12Islington North£139.7m£1,258£13,958
13Islington South and Finsbury£148.5m£1,223£13,949
14Leeds Central and Headingley£103.2m£891£13,907
15Glasgow South£191.2m£2,054£13,894Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Liverpool Walton£221.2m£2,160£13,860
17Holborn and St Pancras£152.8m£1,366£13,804
18Leeds South£169.4m£1,282£13,793
19Hartlepool£252.7m£2,573£13,792
20Coatbridge and Bellshill£221.2m£2,314£13,790Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Airdrie and Shotts£218.0m£2,319£13,777Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Hackney North and Stoke Newington£135.0m£1,150£13,740
23Clapham and Brixton Hill£107.9m£1,041£13,716
24Bradford East£170.7m£1,377£13,710
25Knowsley£215.1m£2,171£13,694
26Queen's Park and Maida Vale£176.6m£1,416£13,671
27Tottenham£159.4m£1,152£13,627
28Glasgow West£193.3m£1,893£13,590Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Salford£160.0m£1,152£13,586
30Glasgow South West£184.0m£1,813£13,584Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Stoke-on-Trent Central£222.3m£1,862£13,562
32Cardiff South and Penarth£183.3m£1,627£13,525
33Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton£209.0m£1,777£13,481
34Aberafan Maesteg£249.1m£2,682£13,480
35Manchester Central£139.3m£1,002£13,478
36Walthamstow£128.6m£1,030£13,469
37Broxbourne£249.5m£2,242£13,455
38Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£236.3m£2,416£13,451Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
39Stretford and Urmston£212.6m£2,009£13,451
40West Dunbartonshire£240.2m£2,620£13,448Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41Nottingham East£145.2m£1,155£13,447
42Liverpool Wavertree£194.6m£1,803£13,442
43Swansea West£239.1m£2,119£13,404
44Northampton South£222.3m£1,938£13,401
45Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£195.7m£1,560£13,401
46Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£246.1m£2,574£13,394
47Hamilton and Clyde Valley£257.1m£2,618£13,390Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Poplar and Limehouse£93.7m£627£13,389
49Smethwick£194.4m£1,623£13,385
50Luton South and South Bedfordshire£177.0m£1,320£13,381

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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