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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.

Spending on working-age benefits, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Mid Norfolk: £1,559 per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, 455th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £1,450
  2. £1,450 to £1,857
  3. £1,857 to £2,263
  4. £2,263 to £2,669
  5. £2,669 to £3,076
  6. £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

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 641632Enfield North 1Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 2Hackney North and Stoke Newington 3Brent East 4Tottenham 5Liverpool Walton 6Blackpool South 7Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North 8Blackley and Middleton South 9Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 10Mid Norfolk 455

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Mid Norfolk, 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.

Benefit
£4.7mFebruary 2023+£0.05mPopulation+£0.71mShare claiming+£0.28mPayment size£5.7mMarch 2026
What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023£4.7m
Population+£0.05m
Share claiming+£0.71m
Payment size+£0.28m
March 2026£5.7m
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.

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