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Clacton has the highest benefit spending per resident in 2024-25.

All the benefits on this site: pensioner, disability, carer, working-age and housing benefits paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In Scotland, it includes the Social Security Scotland benefits that replace some of them. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Benefit spending, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Perth and Kinross-shire: £4,585 per resident, 2024-25, 271st of 631 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £3,662
  2. £3,662 to £4,117
  3. £4,117 to £4,572
  4. £4,572 to £5,027
  5. £5,027 to £5,482
  6. £5,482 and over
  • Estimated value
Benefit spending, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency. Boundaries are simplified. London is also shown larger, in a separate box. 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 resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1631Clacton 1Liverpool Walton 2Aberafan Maesteg 3Isle of Wight East 4Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 5Clwyd North 6North Ayrshire and Arran 7Easington 8Blackpool South 9Birkenhead 10Perth and Kinross-shire 271

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Perth and Kinross-shire, 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
£232.8mFebruary 2023+£5.3mPopulation+£8.8mShare claiming+£29.4mPayment size£276.3mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£232.8m
Population+£5.3m
Share claiming+£8.8m
Payment size+£29.4m
March 2026£276.3m
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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
Expected level = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Benefit spending, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Clacton£708.9m£6,882
2Liverpool Walton£649.5m£6,341
3Aberafan Maesteg£585.2m£6,301
4Isle of Wight East£433.2m£6,243
5Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£594.7m£6,220
6Clwyd North£628.9m£6,205
7North Ayrshire and Arran£559.6m£6,154Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
8Easington£590.1m£6,135
9Blackpool South£689.5m£6,123
10Birkenhead£653.9m£5,956
11East Thanet£632.0m£5,949
12North Norfolk£516.5m£5,942
13Bootle£619.1m£5,937
14Louth and Horncastle£585.1m£5,936
15West Dunbartonshire£543.2m£5,925Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£734.6m£5,872
17Knowsley£580.4m£5,859
18Hartlepool£574.5m£5,852
19Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£586.9m£5,838
20Wallasey£571.7m£5,819
21Great Yarmouth£584.9m£5,818
22Liverpool West Derby£587.5m£5,808
23Rhondda and Ogmore£587.7m£5,807
24Torbay£606.8m£5,795
25Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£522.7m£5,790Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26South Shields£523.3m£5,787
27Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£520.1m£5,770Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28Blackpool North and Fleetwood£563.2m£5,765
29Christchurch£508.9m£5,764
30Lowestoft£549.3m£5,754
31Brent East£787.9m£5,745
32Dumfries and Galloway£553.1m£5,741Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Redcar£545.6m£5,706
34Enfield North£727.3m£5,704
35Bexhill and Battle£526.0m£5,700
36Queen's Park and Maida Vale£708.1m£5,680
37Llanelli£541.7m£5,677
38Hastings and Rye£596.4m£5,670
39Glenrothes and Mid Fife£528.4m£5,666Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40Boston and Skegness£666.7m£5,665
41Washington and Gateshead South£545.7m£5,659
42Bishop Auckland£534.4m£5,642
43Bridlington and The Wolds£536.6m£5,632
44Birmingham Erdington£707.9m£5,611
45Torfaen£527.5m£5,605
46Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£606.0m£5,595
47Hackney North and Stoke Newington£655.8m£5,585
48Folkestone and Hythe£523.1m£5,578
49Houghton and Sunderland South£591.5m£5,574
50Central Ayrshire£498.3m£5,562Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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