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Edmonton and Winchmore Hill has the highest spending on Universal Credit per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

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Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £913
  2. £913 to £1,197
  3. £1,197 to £1,481
  4. £1,481 to £1,765
  5. £1,765 to £2,048
  6. £2,048 and over
Spending on Universal Credit, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by constituency. 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 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.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 1Enfield North 2Brent East 3Tottenham 4Croydon West 5Blackpool South 6Hackney North and Stoke Newington 7Blackley and Middleton South 8Barking 9East Thanet 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Universal Credit: yearly spending at the rate in May 2023 and in May 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.

£53.7bnMay 2023+£746.4mPopulation+£22.8bnShare claiming+£10.2bnPayment size£87.5bnMay 2026
What changed: Universal Credit
May 2023£53.7bn
Population+£746.4m
Share claiming+£22.8bn
Payment size+£10.2bn
May 2026£87.5bn
The share claiming is the number of households 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 Universal Credit, 2023-24. 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 Universal Credit for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£252.6m£2,016£3,156
2Enfield North£250.8m£1,963£3,061
3Brent East£281.1m£2,072£3,046
4Tottenham£287.1m£2,076£2,902
5Croydon West£233.1m£1,814£2,614
6Blackpool South£178.8m£1,603£2,560
7Hackney North and Stoke Newington£207.9m£1,764£2,546
8Blackley and Middleton South£174.6m£1,527£2,447
9Barking£225.6m£1,630£2,440
10East Thanet£150.7m£1,435£2,428
11Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£185.1m£1,489£2,401
12Lewisham East£188.8m£1,614£2,370
13Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£179.1m£1,503£2,333
14Queen's Park and Maida Vale£208.6m£1,681£2,332
15Hartlepool£136.6m£1,424£2,326
16Gorton and Denton£174.0m£1,483£2,320
17Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£151.6m£1,406£2,301
18East Ham£214.9m£1,580£2,299
19Birmingham Erdington£182.9m£1,468£2,289
20Birmingham Northfield£149.6m£1,379£2,244
21Southgate and Wood Green£193.2m£1,515£2,242
22Leeds South£194.7m£1,510£2,234
23Birmingham Perry Barr£182.3m£1,460£2,229
24Bootle£144.6m£1,403£2,212
25Wolverhampton South East£173.3m£1,378£2,203
26Ealing North£193.6m£1,467£2,196
27Walsall and Bloxwich£167.6m£1,375£2,196
28Bolton South and Walkden£175.1m£1,364£2,177
29Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£156.6m£1,378£2,176
30Liverpool Walton£141.6m£1,381£2,172
31Bradford East£168.3m£1,373£2,158
32Erith and Thamesmead£199.4m£1,453£2,152
33Bethnal Green and Stepney£219.1m£1,642£2,144
34Feltham and Heston£199.0m£1,443£2,143
35Southend East and Rochford£134.3m£1,336£2,139
36Nottingham North and Kimberley£144.3m£1,322£2,135
37Birmingham Yardley£156.2m£1,345£2,128
38Dagenham and Rainham£168.1m£1,358£2,121
39Croydon East£151.2m£1,367£2,119
40Birkenhead£142.1m£1,317£2,108
41Easington£123.7m£1,297£2,103
42Bradford South£145.6m£1,306£2,097
43Coventry East£162.3m£1,328£2,094
44Great Yarmouth£121.9m£1,217£2,088
45Ilford South£187.0m£1,383£2,085
46Birmingham Ladywood£244.4m£1,509£2,080
47Peterborough£171.3m£1,299£2,074
48Finchley and Golders Green£169.3m£1,317£2,073
49Knowsley£126.2m£1,299£2,061
50Kingston upon Hull East£131.9m£1,268£2,057

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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