For further background information on benefits statistics please follow links below:
Benefit Statistics - Further Information
Personal Independence Payment Statistics - Further information
For each benefit, the boundaries are based on the Claimant's postcode at the time of their claim, the exception is Universal Credit where the claimant's 2023 postcode has been used to derive the boundaries for each of the years 2017- 2023.
Figures relate to Claimants at February each year and are rounded to the nearest 10.