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Enfield North has the highest spending on working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64 in 2024-25.

Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support and Carer's Allowance, with Carer Support Payment in Scotland. Disability benefits are paid at all ages, so they are shown separately. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

Under £1,450
£1,450 to £1,857
£1,857 to £2,263
£2,263 to £2,669
£2,669 to £3,076
£3,076 and over

Estimated value

Spending on working-age benefits, per person aged 16 to 64, 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

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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, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Hendon, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment: 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: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023	£6.4m
Population	+£0.21m
Share claiming	+£2.3m
Payment size	+£0.43m
March 2026	£9.4m

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. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

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.

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 working-age benefits, 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 working-age benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank					Notes
1	Enfield North	£367.4m	£2,881	£4,496
2	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£357.6m	£2,859	£4,484
3	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£347.9m	£2,963	£4,305
4	Brent East	£399.4m	£2,912	£4,283
5	Tottenham	£414.4m	£2,993	£4,193
6	Liverpool Walton	£250.4m	£2,444	£3,872
7	Blackpool South	£272.7m	£2,422	£3,870
8	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£298.3m	£2,378	£3,814
9	Blackley and Middleton South	£269.0m	£2,332	£3,742
10	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£272.5m	£2,363	£3,714
11	Birmingham Erdington	£289.0m	£2,291	£3,587
12	Bootle	£232.7m	£2,232	£3,530
13	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£312.0m	£2,503	£3,483
14	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£237.8m	£2,164	£3,482
15	Birmingham Northfield	£233.2m	£2,132	£3,475
16	East Thanet	£218.2m	£2,054	£3,463
17	Birkenhead	£236.6m	£2,155	£3,439
18	Bradford East	£271.4m	£2,189	£3,433
19	Knowsley	£213.6m	£2,157	£3,431
20	Easington	£202.2m	£2,103	£3,422
21	Walsall and Bloxwich	£270.0m	£2,159	£3,422
22	Birmingham Yardley	£253.3m	£2,150	£3,396
23	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£264.8m	£2,184	£3,385
24	Gorton and Denton	£257.5m	£2,162	£3,378
25	Lewisham East	£269.0m	£2,283	£3,348
26	Aberafan Maesteg	£188.5m	£2,029	£3,346
27	Birmingham Perry Barr	£274.5m	£2,191	£3,340
28	Bradford West	£275.6m	£2,169	£3,340
29	Liverpool West Derby	£212.1m	£2,097	£3,333
30	Bradford South	£232.4m	£2,071	£3,331
31	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	£219.7m	£2,028	£3,331
32	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£196.6m	£2,056	£3,329
33	Hartlepool	£198.8m	£2,025	£3,314
34	Bolton South and Walkden	£270.5m	£2,073	£3,301
35	Kingston upon Hull East	£210.9m	£2,022	£3,287
36	Glasgow North East	£268.5m	£2,333	£3,285	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
37	Wolverhampton South East	£262.7m	£2,047	£3,262
38	Barking	£309.4m	£2,171	£3,238
39	Leeds South	£289.7m	£2,192	£3,232
40	Clacton	£175.7m	£1,706	£3,211
41	Croydon West	£291.5m	£2,208	£3,176
42	Southgate and Wood Green	£271.8m	£2,129	£3,167
43	Glenrothes and Mid Fife	£180.0m	£1,930	£3,159	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
44	East Ham	£295.3m	£2,165	£3,143
45	Blackburn	£234.1m	£1,968	£3,128
46	Derby South	£253.1m	£2,018	£3,118
47	Rotherham	£223.1m	£1,943	£3,090
48	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£219.4m	£1,921	£3,089
49	Coventry East	£246.4m	£1,966	£3,089
50	Tipton and Wednesbury	£226.2m	£1,926	£3,081

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, Social Security Scotland, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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