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Below the Breadline, Barnardos 2009
Poverty In Your Area
Poverty In Your Area
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- The Indicator
- Where child poverty is highest
- East of England
- The East Midlands
- London
- The North East
- The North West
- The South East
- The South West
- The West Midlands
- Yorkshire & The Humber
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
The Indicator
Official measures of child poverty are based on a national survey of family income, which shows poverty at national and regional level, but not in more local areas.
However, the figures shown here use tax credit data to give the percentage of children on low incomes in local authorities, parliamentary constituencies and wards across the United Kingdom. Based on how many families are out of work or on low working incomes, this is not a direct measure of exactly how many children are in poverty on the official definition, but is the closest measure we have of local levels of child poverty. The figures are estimates for mid-2011.
In the figures presented below, children are classified as being in poverty if they live in families in receipt of out of work benefits or in receipt of in-work tax credits where their reported income is less than 60 per cent of median income. The number of children in poverty on this measure is reported by HMRC for 2009. We have used survey data to estimate change between 2009 and 2011 - see Note on Method. On this measure, across England, 20.9% of children are in poverty. This represents 2.4 million children, similar to the number officially counted as being in poverty in England, before housing costs. (Note however that the "after housing cost" poverty measure, which takes into account the relatively large amounts that low income families spend on rent or mortgage payments, is much higher.)
Data analysis and presentation by Donald Hirsch and Jacqueline Beckhelling of the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, for End Child Poverty.
Where child poverty is highest
On average throughout the UK, one in five (20.9%) children are classified as below the poverty line (before housing costs). In some areas of our large cities, this rises to over half. This is true in one whole local authority (Tower Hamlets), as well as in the parliamentary constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow. In Islington, in Manchester and in 19 parliamentary constituencies, at least four in ten children are in poverty.
At a more local level, there are even more serious concentrations of child poverty: in 100 local wards, between 50% and 70% of children face poverty (see the End Child Poverty website for full ward level data).
Table 2: Top 20 parliamentary constituencies with highest levels of child poverty across the UK:
| Constituency (pre-2010 boundaries) |
% of children in poverty 2011 |
| Bethnal Green and Bow | 51% |
| Manchester Central | 49% |
| Poplar and Canning Town | 48% |
| Belfast West | 46% |
| Birmingham, Ladywood | 46% |
| Liverpool, Riverside | 46% |
| Islington South and Finsbury | 46% |
| Hackney South and Shoreditch | 45% |
| Birmingham, Sparbrook and Small Heath | 45% |
| Regent's Park and North Kensington | 44% |
| Glasgow North East | 44% |
| Holborn and St.Pancreas | 44% |
| Birmingham, Hodge Hill | 41% |
| Tottenham | 41% |
| Belfast North | 41% |
| Manchester, Blackley | 41% |
| Islington North | 40% |
| Leeds Central | 40% |
| Manchester Gorton | 40% |
| Nottingham North | 39% |
East of England
By Local Authority- Download Local Authority Excel Spreadheet with Breakdowns by Ward.
|
Babergh
|
13%
|
|
Basildon
|
23%
|
|
Bedford
|
20%
|
|
Braintree
|
14%
|
|
Breckland
|
15%
|
|
Brentwood
|
10%
|
|
Broadland
|
10%
|
|
Broxbourne
|
18%
|
|
Cambridge
|
17%
|
|
Castle Point
|
16%
|
|
Central Bedfordshire
|
12%
|
|
Chelmsford
|
12%
|
|
Colchester
|
17%
|
|
Dacorum
|
14%
|
|
East Cambridgeshire
|
11%
|
|
East Hertfordshire
|
9%
|
|
Epping Forest
|
15%
|
|
Fenland
|
20%
|
|
Forest Heath
|
15%
|
|
Great Yarmouth
|
25%
|
|
Harlow
|
22%
|
|
Hertsmere
|
14%
|
|
Huntingdonshire
|
11%
|
|
Ipswich
|
22%
|
|
King's Lynn & W Norfolk
|
18%
|
|
Luton UA
|
29%
|
|
Maldon
|
13%
|
|
Mid Suffolk
|
9%
|
|
North Hertfordshire
|
13%
|
|
North Norfolk
|
16%
|
|
Norwich
|
30%
|
|
Peterborough UA
|
25%
|
|
Rochford
|
11%
|
|
South Cambridgeshire
|
8%
|
|
South Norfolk
|
11%
|
|
Southend-on-Sea UA
|
24%
|
|
St. Albans
|
10%
|
|
St. Edmundsbury
|
12%
|
|
Stevenage
|
19%
|
|
Suffolk Coastal
|
11%
|
|
Tendring
|
24%
|
|
Three Rivers
|
12%
|
|
Thurrock UA
|
20%
|
|
Uttlesford
|
8%
|
|
Watford
|
16%
|
|
Waveney
|
22%
|
|
Welwyn Hatfield
|
16%
|
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|
Basildon
|
25%
|
|
Bedford
|
25%
|
|
Billericay
|
18%
|
|
Braintree
|
16%
|
|
Brentwood and Ongar
|
11%
|
|
Broxbourne
|
18%
|
|
Bury St Edmunds
|
11%
|
|
Cambridge
|
18%
|
|
Castle Point
|
16%
|
|
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
|
12%
|
|
Colchester
|
20%
|
|
Epping Forest
|
16%
|
|
Great Yarmouth
|
25%
|
|
Harlow
|
22%
|
|
Harwich
|
29%
|
|
Hemel Hempstead
|
18%
|
|
Hertford and Stortford
|
10%
|
|
Hertsmere
|
14%
|
|
Hitchin and Harpenden
|
9%
|
|
Huntingdon
|
12%
|
|
Ipswich
|
22%
|
|
Luton North
|
25%
|
|
Luton South
|
29%
|
|
Maldon and East Chelmsford
|
13%
|
|
Mid Bedfordshire
|
8%
|
|
Mid Norfolk
|
12%
|
|
North East Bedfordshire
|
11%
|
|
North East Cambridgeshire
|
20%
|
|
North East Hertfordshire
|
13%
|
|
North Essex
|
11%
|
|
North Norfolk
|
17%
|
|
North West Cambridgeshire
|
16%
|
|
North West Norfolk
|
20%
|
|
Norwich North
|
19%
|
|
Norwich South
|
28%
|
|
Peterborough
|
28%
|
|
Rayleigh
|
9%
|
|
Rochford and Southend East
|
28%
|
|
Saffron Walden
|
9%
|
|
South Cambridgeshire
|
8%
|
|
South East Cambridgeshire
|
10%
|
|
South Norfolk
|
12%
|
|
South Suffolk
|
13%
|
|
South West Bedfordshire
|
18%
|
|
South West Hertfordshire
|
10%
|
|
South West Norfolk
|
16%
|
|
Southend West
|
17%
|
|
St Albans
|
11%
|
|
Stevenage
|
19%
|
|
Suffolk Coastal
|
13%
|
|
Thurrock
|
23%
|
|
Watford
|
15%
|
|
Waveney
|
22%
|
|
Welwyn Hatfield
|
16%
|
|
West Chelmsford
|
13%
|
|
West Suffolk
|
13%
|
The East Midlands
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
By Local Authority- Download Local Authority Excel Spreadheet with Breakdowns by Ward.
| Amber Valley | 17% |
| Ashfield | 22% |
| Bassetlaw | 19% |
| Blaby | 9% |
| Bolsover | 23% |
| Boston | 18% |
| Broxtowe | 15% |
| Charnwood | 14% |
| Chesterfield | 21% |
| Corby | 21% |
| Daventry | 12% |
| Derby UA | 24% |
| Derbyshire Dales | 10% |
| East Lindsey | 20% |
| East Northamptonshire | 12% |
| Erewash | 18% |
| Gainsborough | 19% |
| Gedling | 15% |
| Harborough | 7% |
| High Peak | 13% |
| Kettering | 15% |
| Leicester UA | 32% |
| Lincoln | 24% |
| Mansfield | 23% |
| Melton | 10% |
| Newark & Sherwood | 16% |
| North East Derbyshire | 15% |
| North Kesteven | 10% |
| North West Leicestershire | 13% |
| Northampton | 21% |
| Nottingham UA | 35% |
| Oadby and Wigston | 12% |
| Rushcliffe | 8% |
| Rutland UA | 7% |
| South Derbyshire | 13% |
| South Holland | 15% |
| South Kesteven | 13% |
| South Northamptonshire | 6% |
| Wellingborough | 19% |
| West Lindsey | 15% |
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| Amber Valley | 19% |
| Ashfield | 23% |
| Bassetlaw | 20% |
| Blaby | 9% |
| Bolsover | 22% |
| Boston and Skegness | 21% |
| Bosworth | 13% |
| Broxtowe | 13% |
| Charnwood | 9% |
| Chesterfield | 20% |
| Corby | 16% |
| Daventry | 10% |
| Derby North | 21% |
| Derby South | 28% |
| Erewash | 19% |
| Gedling | 16% |
| Grantham and Stamford | 14% |
| Harborough | 10% |
| High Peak | 13% |
| Kettering | 13% |
| Leicester East | 29% |
| Leicester South | 32% |
| Leicester West | 37% |
| Lincoln | 23% |
| Loughborough | 17% |
| Louth and Horncastle | 17% |
| Mansfield | 22% |
| Newark | 17% |
| North East Derbyshire | 16% |
| North West Leicestershire | 13% |
| Northampton North | 26% |
| Northampton South | 15% |
| Nottingham East | 35% |
| Nottingham North | 39% |
| Nottingham South | 28% |
| Rushcliffe | 8% |
| Rutland and Melton | 9% |
| Sherwood | 18% |
| Sleaford and North Hykeham | 10% |
| South Derbyshire | 14% |
| South Holland and The Deepings | 14% |
| Wellingborough | 17% |
| West Derbyshire | 10% |
London
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Barking and Dagenham | 35% |
| Barent | 21% |
| Bexley | 17% |
| Brent | 30% |
| Bromley | 15% |
| Camden | 37% |
| City of London | 16% |
| Croydon | 24% |
| Ealing | 27% |
| Enfield | 33% |
| Greenwich | 31% |
| Hackney | 39% |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 33% |
| Haringey | 34% |
| Harrow | 21% |
| Havering | 17% |
| Hillingdon | 22% |
| Hounslow | 25% |
| Islington | 43% |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 26% |
| Kingston upon Thames | 14% |
| Lambeth | 33% |
| Lewisham | 32% |
| Merton | 18% |
| Newham | 37% |
| Redbridge | 25% |
| Richmond upon Thames | 9% |
| Southwark | 31% |
| Sutton | 15% |
| Tower Hamlets | 52% |
| Waltham Forest | 31% |
| Wandsworth | 24% |
| Westminster and City of London | 38% |
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| Barking | 35% |
| Battersea | 24% |
| Beckenham | 15% |
| Bethnal Green and Bow | 51% |
| Bexleyheath and Crayford | 16% |
| Brent East | 32% |
| Brent North | 23% |
| Brent South | 34% |
| Brentford and Isleworth | 22% |
| Bromley and Chislehurst | 14% |
| Camberwell and Peckham | 35% |
| Carshalton and Wallington | 18% |
| Chingford and Woodford Green | 21% |
| Chipping Barnet | 18% |
| Cities of London and Westminster | 27% |
| Croydon Central | 28% |
| Croydon North | 28% |
| Croydon South | 14% |
| Dagenham | 34% |
| Dulwich and West Norwood | 24% |
| Ealing North | 26% |
| Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | 34% |
| Ealing, Southall | 26% |
| East Ham | 36% |
| Edmonton | 39% |
| Eltham | 26% |
| Enfield North | 37% |
| Enfield, Southgate | 18% |
| Erith and Thamesmead | 31% |
| Feltham and Heston | 28% |
| Finchley and Golders Green | 17% |
| Greenwich and Woolwich | 34% |
| Hackney North and Stoke Newington | 35% |
| Hackney South and Shoreditch | 45% |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 28% |
| Hampstead and Highgate | 29% |
| Harrow East | 23% |
| Harrow West | 19% |
| Hayes and Harlington | 31% |
| Hendon | 26% |
| Holborn and St Pancras | 44% |
| Hornchurch | 16% |
| Hornsey and Wood Green | 25% |
| Ilford North | 22% |
| Ilford South | 32% |
| Islington North | 40% |
| Islington South and Finsbury | 46% |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 16% |
| Kingston and Surbiton | 16% |
| Lewisham East | 31% |
| Lewisham West | 30% |
| Lewisham, Deptford | 33% |
| Leyton and Wanstead | 28% |
| Mitcham and Morden | 25% |
| North Southwark and Bermondsey | 35% |
| Old Bexley and Sidcup | 11% |
| Orpington | 17% |
| Poplar and Canning Town | 48% |
| Putney | 24% |
| Regent's Park and Kensington North | 44% |
| Richmond Park | 9% |
| Romford | 17% |
| Ruislip-Northwood | 11% |
| Streatham | 30% |
| Sutton and Cheam | 12% |
| Tooting | 24% |
| Tottenham | 41% |
| Twickenham | 10% |
| Upminster | 19% |
| Uxbridge | 22% |
| Vauxhall | 38% |
| Walthamstow | 33% |
| West Ham | 39% |
| Wimbledon | 21% |
The North East
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| County Durham | 22% |
| Darlington UA | 22% |
| Gateshead | 25% |
| Hartlepool UA | 30% |
| Middlesbrough UA | 34% |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 31% |
| North Tyneside | 21% |
| Northumberlnad UA | 18% |
| Redcar and Cleveland UA | 26% |
| South Tyneside | 28% |
| Stockton-on-Tees UA | 23% |
| Sunderland | 26% |
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| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 15% |
| Bishop Auckland | 25% |
| Blaydon | 19% |
| Blyth Valley | 23% |
| City of Durham | 18% |
| Darlington | 24% |
| Easington | 29% |
| Gateshead East and Washington West | 24% |
| Hartlepool | 30% |
| Hexham | 9% |
| Houghton and Washington East | 24% |
| Jarrow | 24% |
| Middlesbrough | 38% |
| Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 24% |
| Newcastle Upon Tyne Central | 29% |
| Newcastle Upon Tyne East and Wallsend | 33% |
| Newcastle upon Tyne North | 24% |
| North Durham | 23% |
| North Tyneside | 24% |
| North West Durham | 20% |
| Redcar | 27% |
| Sedgefield | 22% |
| South Shields | 32% |
| Stockton North | 29% |
| Stockton South | 17% |
| Sunderland North | 29% |
| Sunderland South | 30% |
| Tyne Bridge | 37% |
| Tynemouth | 16% |
| Wansbeck | 24% |
The North West
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits - more data available on request.
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| Allerdale | 16% |
| Barrow-in-Furness | 22% |
| Blackburn with Darwen UA | 29% |
| Blackpool UA | 29% |
| Bolton | 24% |
| Burnley | 29% |
| Bury | 18% |
| Carlisle | 17% |
| Chester West and Chester | 16% |
| Chester East UA | 13% |
| Chorley | 13% |
| Copeland | 18% |
| Eden | 9% |
| Fylde | 12% |
| Halton UA | 27% |
| Hyndburn | 25% |
| Knowsley | 32% |
| Lancaster | 18% |
| Liverpool | 34% |
| Manchester | 40% |
| Oldham | 29% |
| Pendle | 24% |
| Preston | 23% |
| Ribble Valley | 6% |
| Rochdale | 28% |
| Rossendale | 19% |
| Salford | 29% |
| Sefton | 20% |
| South Lakeland | 9% |
| South Ribble | 12% |
| St. Helens | 25% |
| Stockport | 16% |
| Tameside | 24% |
| Trafford | 15% |
| Warrington UA | 14% |
| West Lancashire | 18% |
| Wigan | 20% |
| Wirral | 25% |
| Wyre | 16% |
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| Altrincham and Sale West | 10% |
| Ashton under Lyne | 27% |
| Barrow and Furness | 20% |
| Birkenhead | 39% |
| Blackburn | 32% |
| Blackpool North and Fleetwood | 24% |
| Blackpool South | 32% |
| Bolton North East | 26% |
| Bolton South East | 30% |
| Bolton West | 15% |
| Bootle | 36% |
| Burnley | 29% |
| Bury North | 17% |
| Bury South | 20% |
| Carlisle | 20% |
| Cheadle | 8% |
| Chorley | 13% |
| City of Chester | 17% |
| Congleton | 11% |
| Copeland | 18% |
| Crewe and Nantwich | 19% |
| Crosby | 12% |
| Denton and Reddish | 22% |
| Eccles | 26% |
| Eddisbury | 14% |
| Ellesmere Port and Neston | 18% |
| Fylde | 12% |
| Halton | 26% |
| Hazel Grove | 14% |
| Heywood and Middleton | 25% |
| Hyndburn | 25% |
| Knowsley North and Sefton East | 28% |
| Knowsley South | 29% |
| Lancaster and Wyre | 11% |
| Leigh | 21% |
| Liverpool, Garston | 27% |
| Liverpool, Riverside | 46% |
| Liverpool, Walton | 38% |
| Liverpool, Wavertree | 27% |
| Liverpool, West Derby | 34% |
| Macclesfield | 11% |
| Makerfield | 18% |
| Manchester, Blackley | 41% |
| Manchester, Central | 49% |
| Manchester, Gorton | 40% |
| Manchester, Withington | 27% |
| Morecambe and Lunesdale | 20% |
| Oldham East and Saddleworth | 24% |
| Oldham West and Royton | 32% |
| Pendle | 24% |
| Penrith and The Border | 9% |
| Preston | 26% |
| Ribble Valley | 6% |
| Rochdale | 33% |
| Rossendale and Darwen | 18% |
| Salford | 34% |
| South Ribble | 12% |
| Southport | 15% |
| St. Helens North | 24% |
| St. Helens South | 27% |
| Staylbridge and Hyde | 24% |
| Stockport | 22% |
| Stretford and Urmston | 22% |
| Tatton | 10% |
| Wallasey | 29% |
| Warrington North | 19% |
| Warrington South | 10% |
| Weaver Vale | 21% |
| West Lancashire | 20% |
| Westmorland and Lonsdale | 8% |
| Wigan | 21% |
| Wirral South | 13% |
| Wirral West | 14% |
| Workington | 17% |
| Worsley | 22% |
| Wythenshaw and Sale East | 31% |
The South East
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Adur | 17% |
| Arun | 15% |
| Ashford | 15% |
| Aylesbury Vale | 9% |
| Basingstoke and Deane | 11% |
| Bracknell Forest UA | 10% |
| Brighton and Hove UA | 20% |
| Canterbury | 16% |
| Cherwell | 11% |
| Chichester | 11% |
| Chiltern | 6% |
| Crawley | 17% |
| Dartford | 15% |
| Dover | 19% |
| East Hampshire | 8% |
| Eastbourne | 21% |
| Eastleigh | 10% |
| Elmbridge | 8% |
| Epsom and Ewell | 8% |
| Fareham | 8% |
| Gosport | 18% |
| Gravesham | 19% |
| Guildford | 9% |
| Hart | 5% |
| Hastings | 28% |
| Havant | 20% |
| Horsham | 8% |
| Isle of Wight UA | 20% |
| Lewes | 14% |
| Maidstone | 13% |
| Medway UA | 19% |
| Mid Sussex | 7% |
| Milton Keynes UA | 19% |
| Mole Valley | 7% |
| New Forest | 12% |
| Oxford | 22% |
| Portsmouth UA | 24% |
| Reading UA | 20% |
| Reigate and Banstead | 10% |
| Rother | 17% |
| Runnymede | 11% |
| Rushmoor | 12% |
| Sevenoaks | 11% |
| Shepway | 19% |
| Slough UA | 22% |
| South Bucks | 8% |
| South Oxfordshire | 7% |
| Southampton UA | 26% |
| Spelthorne | 13% |
| Surrey Heath | 8% |
| Swale | 22% |
| Tandridge | 9% |
| Test Valley | 9% |
| Thanet | 25% |
| Tonbridge and Malling | 11% |
| Tunbridge Wells | 11% |
| Vale of White Horse | 8% |
| Waverley | 7% |
| Wealden | 9% |
| West Berkshie UA | 10% |
| West Oxfordshire | 7% |
| Winchester | 7% |
| Windsor and Maidenhead UA | 9% |
| Woking | 11% |
| Wokingham UA | 5% |
| Worthing | 14% |
| Wycombe | 12% |
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| Aldershot | 11% |
| Arundel and South Downs | 8% |
| Ashford | 15% |
| Aylesbury | 11% |
| Banbury | 11% |
| Basingstoke | 13% |
| Beaconsfield | 7% |
| Bexhill and Battle | 15% |
| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | 18% |
| Bracknell | 9% |
| Brighton, Kemptown | 27% |
| Brighton, Pavilion | 16% |
| Buckingham | 5% |
| Canterbury | 17% |
| Chatham and Aylesford | 19% |
| Chesham and Amersham | 6% |
| Chichester | 11% |
| Crawley | 17% |
| Dartford | 16% |
| Dover | 20% |
| East Hampshire | 9% |
| East Surrey | 9% |
| East Worthing and Shoreham | 15% |
| Eastbourne | 20% |
| Eastleigh | 11% |
| Epsom and Ewell | 8% |
| Esher and Walton | 8% |
| Fareham | 8% |
| Faversham and Mid Kent | 16% |
| Folkestone and Hythe | 19% |
| Gillingham | 19% |
| Gosport | 16% |
| Gravesham | 19% |
| Guildford | 9% |
| Hastings and Rye | 27% |
| Havant | 22% |
| Henley | 6% |
| Horsham | 7% |
| Hove | 16% |
| Isle of Wight | 20% |
| Lewes | 13% |
| Maidenhead | 8% |
| Maidstone and The Weald | 12% |
| Medway | 18% |
| Mid Sussex | 8% |
| Milton Keynes North East | 16% |
| Milton Keynes South West | 21% |
| Mole Valley | 6% |
| New Forest East | 12% |
| New Forest West | 11% |
| Newbury | 10% |
| North East Hampshire | 6% |
| North Thanet | 23% |
| North West Hampshire | 9% |
| Oxford East | 25% |
| Oxford West and Abingdon | 9% |
| Portsmouth North | 20% |
| Portsmouth South | 27% |
| Reading East | 16% |
| Reading West | 18% |
| Reigate | 9% |
| Romsey | 8% |
| Runnymede and Weybridge | 9% |
| Sevenoaks | 11% |
| Sittingbourne and Sheppey | 23% |
| Slough | 22% |
| South Thanet | 21% |
| South West Surrey | 7% |
| Southampton, Itchen | 28% |
| Southampton, Test | 24% |
| Spelthorne | 13% |
| Surrey Heath | 9% |
| Tonbridge and Malling | 10% |
| Tunbridge Wells | 11% |
| Wantage | 8% |
| Wealden | 9% |
| Winchester | 7% |
| Windsor | 10% |
| Witney | 7% |
| Woking | 10% |
| Wokingham | 6% |
| Worthing West | 14% |
| Wycombe | 15% |
The South West
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Bath and North East Somerset UA | 12% |
| Bournemouth UA | 19% |
| Bristol, City of UA | 25% |
| Cheltenham | 16% |
| Christchurch | 15% |
| Cornwall UA | 17% |
| Cotswold | 9% |
| East Devon | 9% |
| East Dorset | 9% |
| Exeter | 16% |
| Forest of Dean | 14% |
| *Isles of Scilly | 3% |
| Gloucester | 19% |
| Mendip | 13% |
| Mid Devon | 11% |
| North Devon | 14% |
| North Dorset | 11% |
| North Somerset UA | 13% |
| Plymouth UA | 20% |
| Poole UA | 16% |
| Purbeck | 12% |
| Sedgemoor | 15% |
| South Gloucestershire UA | 10% |
| South Hams | 11% |
| South Somerset | 12% |
| Stroud | 10% |
| Swindon UA | 16% |
| Taunton Deane | 13% |
| Teignbridge | 13% |
| Tewkesbury | 12% |
| Torbay UA | 22% |
| Torridge | 15% |
| West Devon | 11% |
| West Dorset | 11% |
| West Somerset | 17% |
| Weymouth and Portland | 18% |
| Wiltshire UA | 10% |
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| Bath | 13% |
| Bournemouth East | 18% |
| Bournemouth West | 22% |
| Bridgwater | 18% |
| Bristol East | 27% |
| Bristol North West | 23% |
| Bristol South | 29% |
| Bristol West | 12% |
| Cheltenham | 18% |
| Christchurch | 13% |
| Cotswold | 8% |
| Devizes | 11% |
| East Devon | 10% |
| Exeter | 16% |
| Falmouth and Camborne | 20% |
| Forest of Dean | 13% |
| Gloucester | 19% |
| Kingswood | 15% |
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | 13% |
| North Cornwall | 16% |
| North Devon | 14% |
| North Dorset | 10% |
| North Swindon | 14% |
| North Wiltshire | 9% |
| Northavon | 8% |
| Plymouth, Devonport | 26% |
| Plymouth, Sutton | 22% |
| Poole | 17% |
| Salisbury | 9% |
| Somerton and Frome | 11% |
| South Dorset | 16% |
| South East Cornwall | 15% |
| South Swindon | 17% |
| South West Devon | 7% |
| St Ives | 18% |
| Stroud | 10% |
| Taunton | 13% |
| Teignbridge | 13% |
| Tewkesbury | 11% |
| Tiverton and Honiton | 10% |
| Torbay | 21% |
| Torridge and West Devon | 14% |
| Totnes | 17% |
| Truro and St Austell | 15% |
| Wansdyke | 10% |
| Wells | 12% |
| West Dorset | 11% |
| Westbury | 13% |
| Weston-Super-Mare | 19% |
| Woodspring | 7% |
| Yeovil | 13% |
The West Midlands
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Birmingham | 34% |
| Bromsgrove | 9% |
| Cannock Chase | 19% |
| Coventry | 27% |
| Dudley | 22% |
| East Staffordshire | 17% |
| Herefordshire UA | 14% |
| Lichfield | 13% |
| Malvern Hills | 13% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 18% |
| North Warwickshire | 14% |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | 19% |
| Redditch | 19% |
| Rugby | 13% |
| Sandwell | 31% |
| Shropshire UA | 13% |
| Solihull | 16% |
| South Staffordshire | 12% |
| Stafford | 11% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 11% |
| Stoke-on-Trent UA | 29% |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 10% |
| Tamworth | 19% |
| Telford and Wrekin UA | 25% |
| Walsall | 29% |
| Warwick | 11% |
| Wolverhampton | 31% |
| Worcester | 17% |
| Wychavon | 13% |
| Wyre Forest | 19% |
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| Aldridge-Brownhills | 15% |
| Birmingham, Edgbaston | 29% |
| Birmingham, Erdington | 36% |
| Birmingham, Hall Green | 28% |
| Birmingham, Hodge Hill | 41% |
| Birmingham, Ladywood | 46% |
| Birmingham, Northfield | 32% |
| Birmingham, Perry Barr | 29% |
| Birmingham, Selly Oak | 30% |
| Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath | 45% |
| Birmingham, Yardley | 30% |
| Bromsgrove | 9% |
| Burton | 18% |
| Cannock Chase | 20% |
| Coventry North East | 33% |
| Coventry North West | 20% |
| Coventry South | 26% |
| Dudley North | 27% |
| Dudley South | 23% |
| Halesowen and Rowley Regis | 24% |
| Hereford | 14% |
| Leominster | 13% |
| Lichfield | 13% |
| Ludlow | 12% |
| Meriden | 21% |
| Mid Worcestershire | 13% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 18% |
| North Shropshire | 13% |
| North Warwickshire | 16% |
| Nuneaton | 18% |
| Redditch | 19% |
| Rugby and Kenilworth | 12% |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | 14% |
| Solihull | 10% |
| South Staffordshire | 11% |
| Stafford | 13% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 14% |
| Stoke-on-Trent Central | 30% |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | 30% |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | 25% |
| Stone | 8% |
| Stourbridge | 19% |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 10% |
| Sutton Coldfield | 9% |
| Tamworth | 18% |
| Telford | 30% |
| The Wrekin | 17% |
| Walsall North | 34% |
| Walsall South | 34% |
| Warley | 32% |
| Warwick and Leamington | 13% |
| West Bromwich East | 29% |
| West Bromwich West | 32% |
| West Worcestershire | 13% |
| Wolverhampton North East | 33% |
| Wolverhampton South East | 36% |
| Wolverhampton South West | 24% |
| Worcester | 17% |
| Wyre Forest | 19% |
Yorkshire & The Humber
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Barnsley | 23% |
| Bradford | 26% |
| Calderdale | 20% |
| Craven | 8% |
| Doncaster | 23% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire UA | 12% |
| Hambleton | 8% |
| Harrogate | 8% |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of UA | 32% |
| Kirklees | 20% |
| Leeds | 21% |
| North East Lincolnshire UA | 26% |
| North Lincolnshire UA | 19% |
| Richmondshire | 8% |
| Rotherham | 22% |
| Ryedale | 9% |
| Scarborough; | 20% |
| Selby | 11% |
| Sheffield | 23% |
| Wakefield | 20% |
| York UA | 12% |
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| Barnsley Central | 25% |
| Barnsley East and Mexborough | 26% |
| Barnsley West and Penistone | 17% |
| Batley and Spen | 20% |
| Beverley and Holderness | 12% |
| Bradford North | 32% |
| Bradford South | 27% |
| Bradford West | 32% |
| Brigg and Goole | 14% |
| Calder Valley | 14% |
| City of York | 17% |
| Cleethorpes | 18% |
| Colne Valley | 15% |
| Dewsbury | 23% |
| Don Valley | 19% |
| Doncaster Central | 24% |
| Doncaster North | 26% |
| East Yorkshire | 15% |
| Elmet | 11% |
| Great Grimsby | 31% |
| Halifax | 25% |
| Haltemprice and Howden | 6% |
| Harrogate and Knaresborough | 9% |
| Hemsworth | 20% |
| Huddersfield | 27% |
| Keighley | 19% |
| Kingston upon Hull East | 31% |
| Kingston upon Hull North | 33% |
| Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | 28% |
| Leeds Central | 40% |
| Leeds East | 33% |
| Leeds North East | 15% |
| Leeds North West | 13% |
| Leeds West | 28% |
| Morley and Rothwell | 17% |
| Normanton | 12% |
| Pontefract and Castleford | 23% |
| Pudsey | 9% |
| Richmond (Yorks) | 9% |
| Rother Valley | 19% |
| Rotherham | 28% |
| Ryedale | 9% |
| Scarborough and Whitby | 20% |
| Scunthorpe | 23% |
| Selby | 10% |
| Sheffield, Attercliffe | 20% |
| Sheffield, Brightside | 37% |
| Sheffield, Central | 36% |
| Sheffield, Hallam | 5% |
| Sheffield, Heeley | 25% |
| Sheffield, Hillsborough | 11% |
| Shipley | 13% |
| Skipton and Ripon | 7% |
| Vale of York | 6% |
| Wakefield | 20% |
| Wentworth | 20% |
Northern Ireland
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Antrim | 15% |
| Ards | 15% |
| Armagh | 17% |
| Ballymena | 16% |
| Ballymoney | 20% |
| Banbridge | 14% |
| Belfast | 35% |
| Carrickfergus | 16% |
| Castlereagh | 12% |
| Coleraine | 21% |
| Cookstown | 21% |
| Craigavon | 21% |
| Derry | 36% |
| Down | 19% |
| Dungannon | 20% |
| Fermanagh | 19% |
| Larne | 18% |
| Limavady | 26% |
| Lisburn | 21% |
| Magherafelt | 17% |
| Moyle | 24% |
| Newry and Mourne | 25% |
| Newtonabbey | 17% |
| North Down | 12% |
| Omagh | 22% |
| Strabane | 31% |
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| Belfast East | 21% |
| Belfast North | 41% |
| Belfast South | 20% |
| Belfast West | 46% |
| East Antrim | 16% |
| East Londonderry | 23% |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 18% |
| Foyle | 36% |
| Lagan Valley | 13% |
| Mid Ulster | 20% |
| Newry and Armagh | 24% |
| North Antrim | 19% |
| North Down | 13% |
| South Antrim | 14% |
| South Down | 19% |
| Strangford | 13% |
| Upper Bann | 20% |
| West Tyrone | 26% |
Scotland
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Aberdeen City | 16% |
| Aberdeenshire | 9% |
| Angus | 15% |
| Argyll and Bute | 14% |
| Clackmannanshire | 23% |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 17% |
| Dundee City | 27% |
| East Ayrshire | 23% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 10% |
| East Lothian | 10% |
| East Renfrewshire | 10% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 19% |
| Eilean Siar (Western Isles) | 11% |
| Falkirk | 17% |
| Fife | 20% |
| Glasgow City | 35% |
| Highland | 15% |
| Inverclyde | 24% |
| Midlothian | 18% |
| Moray | 13% |
| North Ayrshire | 25% |
| North Lanarkshire | 22% |
| Orkney Islands | 8% |
| Perth and Kinross | 11% |
| Renfrewshire | 19% |
| Scottish Borders | 13% |
| Shetland Islands | 7% |
| South Ayrshire | 19% |
| South Lanarkshire | 18% |
| Stirling | 14% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 26% |
| West Lothian | 18% |
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| Aberdeen North | 24% |
| Aberdeen South | 12% |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 24% |
| Angus | 18% |
| Argyll and Bute | 14% |
| Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 23% |
| Banff and Buchan | 14% |
| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 15% |
| Caithness Sutherland & Easter Ross | 19% |
| Central Ayrshire | 22% |
| Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 21% |
| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 18% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 18% |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 15% |
| Dundee East | 21% |
| Dundee West | 27% |
| Dunfermline and West Fife | 16% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 7% |
| East Kilbride. Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 15% |
| East Lothian | 14% |
| East Renfrewshire | 10% |
| Edinburgh East | 25% |
| Edinburgh North and Leith | 22% |
| Edinburgh South | 15% |
| Edinburgh South West | 19% |
| Edinburgh West | 15% |
| Falkirk | 17% |
| Glasgow Central | 39% |
| Glasgow East | 36% |
| Glasgow North | 30% |
| Glasgow North East | 44% |
| Glasgow North West | 33% |
| Glasgow South | 27% |
| Glasgow South West | 33% |
| Glenrothes | 28% |
| Gordon | 7% |
| Inverclyde | 24% |
| Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 14% |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 22% |
| Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 23% |
| Lanark and Hamilton East | 19% |
| Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 18% |
| Livingstone | 19% |
| Midlothian | 18% |
| Moray | 13% |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 24% |
| Nan Eilean Siar | 11% |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 23% |
| North East Fife | 12% |
| Ochil and South Perthshire | 16% |
| Orkney and Shetland | 8% |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 17% |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 22% |
| Perth and North Perthshire | 13% |
| Ross, Skye and Lochaber | 12% |
| Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 21% |
| Stirling | 14% |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 6% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 26% |
Wales
Percentage of children in families on out of work benefits.
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| Blaenau Gwent | 29% |
| Bridgend | 22% |
| Caerphilly | 25% |
| Cardiff; | 26% |
| Carmarthenshire | 19% |
| Ceredigion | 16% |
| Conwy | 19% |
| Denbighshire | 20% |
| Flintshire | 16% |
| Gwynedd | 16% |
| Isle of Anglesey | 18% |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 28% |
| Monmouthshire | 12% |
| Neath Port Talbot | 25% |
| Newport | 25% |
| Pembrokeshire | 18% |
| Powys | 12% |
| Rhondda, Cynon, Taff | 25% |
| Swansea | 23% |
| Torfaen | 23% |
| Vale of Glamorgan | 16% |
| Wrexham | 19% |
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| Aberavon | 30% |
| Alyn and Deeside | 16% |
| Blaenau Gwent | 29% |
| Brecon and Radnorshire | 12% |
| Bridgend | 18% |
| Caernarfon | 14% |
| Caerphilly | 25% |
| Cardiff Central | 24% |
| Cardiff North | 12% |
| Cardiff South and Penarth | 32% |
| Cardiff West | 29% |
| Carmarthen East and Dinefwyr | 17% |
| Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | 19% |
| Ceredigion | 16% |
| Clwyd South | 18% |
| Clwyd West | 18% |
| Conwy | 20% |
| Cynon Valley | 29% |
| Delyn | 16% |
| Gower | 13% |
| Islwyn | 22% |
| Llanelli | 23% |
| Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | 14% |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | 29% |
| Monmouth | 12% |
| Montgomeryshire | 13% |
| Neath | 21% |
| Newport East | 25% |
| Newport West | 23% |
| Ogmore | 25% |
| Pontypridd | 18% |
| Preseli Pembrokeshire | 17% |
Note on method
These data have been compiled using "National Indicator 116", an official indicator of child poverty at local level. A full description of this indicator can be found at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/ni116-tech-note.pdf.
The indicator tries as far as possible to use tax credit data to replicate the official national indicator for child poverty, which is based on the Family Resources Survey and reported in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) survey as children in households with below 60% median income before housing costs. For children whose parents do not work, it counts poverty as being in a family claiming out of work benefits. This shows more children as being in poverty than the survey data, since about a quarter of children whose parents are out of work nevertheless have incomes above the poverty line. On the other hand, the local figures show considerably less in-work poverty than the HBAI data. This may partly be because the former only consider families claiming tax credits, and partly because they calculate incomes at the family rather than the household level. The family does not include, for example, non-dependent children. A family living in the same household as one or more non-dependents will have higher income needs for their whole household than just for the "family", and if the non-dependents are not working, this can mean that the household income does not reach 60% median, adjusted for household size, even though the family income is enough to reach this threshold adjusted for family size only.
These two significant differences, however, balance out, showing a similar number of children in poverty overall in the local indicators as in the national figures.
The latest HMRC data reporting this indicator are for August 20091. However, the Centre for Research in Social Policy has estimated the change in the number of children in each area are in out of work households in mid-2011 than in these 2009 data, and added this number to the 2009 estimate. It has based this change on regional data on the percentage of children in workless families in the Labour Force Survey2. The percentage point change in this figure for the whole region is applied to the percentage of children assumed to be in families on out of work benefits in each local authority, constituency and ward in the region. The resulting increase in the number of children in out of work households is taken as an estimate of the rise in the number in out of work families, and added to the 2009 total, to calculate a new estimate of child poverty for 2011. While this method does not pick up differences in the change in levels of worklessness among different local areas within one region, it gives a more up-to-date estimate of child poverty than the 2009 figures.