0 poverty Child poverty map of the UK November 2016 Compilation of child poverty local indicators, update to December 2015 Laura Valadez and Donald Hirsch, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Where child poverty is highest In the UK, over one in four children are living in poverty once housing costs have been deducted from their income. According to official child poverty data (HBAI – table 4.14ts), the proportion below 60 per cent of median income after housing costs rose from 27 per cent in 2012/13 to 29 per cent in 2014/15. Estimates of local child poverty rates show that it is the highest in large cities, particularly in London, Birmingham and Manchester. As Table 1 illustrates, among the twenty parliamentary constituencies with the highest levels of childhood poverty, seven are located in London, three in Birmingham, and three in Manchester. Birmingham Ladywood has the highest figures of child poverty with 47 per cent, followed by Manchester Central with 45 per cent, and both Poplar and Limehouse and Birmingham Hodge Hill with almost 44 per cent. There are also important pockets of child poverty in areas of Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Sheffield, Nottingham, and Glasgow, with figures of around 40 per cent. Table 1 Top 20 parliamentary constituencies with highest levels of child poverty across the UK Constituency 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. % of children in poverty 2015 (after housing costs) Birmingham, Ladywood Manchester Central Poplar and Limehouse Birmingham, Hodge Hill Bethnal Green and Bow Manchester, Gorton Leeds Central Hackney South and Shoreditch Westminster North Birmingham, Hall Green Blackley and Broughton Liverpool, Riverside Middlesbrough Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough Vauxhall Bermondsey and Old Southwark Nottingham East Glasgow Central Edmonton Nottingham North 47.3% 44.8% 43.7% 43.7% 43.2% 42.0% 41.8% 40.9% 40.6% 40.5% 40.3% 40.2% 39.9% 39.7% 39.6% 39.5% 39.5% 39.2% 39.2% 39.0% 2 At the local authority level (Table 2), Manchester as a whole has a higher rate of child poverty than Birmingham (40% vs 37%). An interesting change is that, compared to 2013 figures, child poverty in some areas of London seems to have been reduced. In 2013, three London boroughs had 40-50 per cent of children in poverty (AHC). In the last quarter of 2015, only Tower Hamlets, the local authority with the highest proportion of child poverty in the UK, has a child poverty rate in this range (43%). Nevertheless, four of the five local authorities where poverty is highest remain in London. Focusing on a more local level (Table 3), in 21 electoral wards more than 50 per cent of children live in poverty after housing costs. Table 2 Top 20 local authorities with highest levels of child poverty across the UK Local Authority 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. % of children in poverty 2015 (after housing costs) Tower Hamlets Manchester Westminster Islington Newham Birmingham Hackney Middlesbrough Nottingham Southwark Barking and Dagenham Lambeth Leicester Blackpool Kingston upon Hull, City of Camden Sandwell Lewisham Waltham Forest Wolverhampton 43.5% 40.0% 37.7% 37.7% 37.5% 37.4% 37.1% 37.0% 37.0% 36.7% 36.6% 36.1% 35.9% 35.5% 35.4% 35.2% 34.9% 34.7% 34.6% 34.6% 3 Table 3 Electoral wards with the highest levels of child poverty across the UK Ward name % of children in poverty 2015 Parliamentary Constituency (after housing costs) 1. 2. 3. Princes Park Rhyl West Westgate 54.8% 54.8% 53.6% 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Portsoken Moss Side Pillgwenlly Picton Rush Green East University Gresham Coolessan Pen-y-waun University Pier Bloomfield Hyde Park and Woodhouse Coldhurst Cathays Nechells Queensway 53.4% 52.5% 52.3% 52.2% 52.0% 52.0% 52.0% 51.5% 51.2% 51.1% 51.1% 50.8% 50.8% 50.8% 50.6% 50.5% 50.1% 50.0% Liverpool, Riverside Vale of Clwyd Newcastle upon Tyne Central Cities of London and Westminster Manchester Central Newport West Liverpool, Wavertree Clacton West Tyrone Middlesbrough Middlesbrough East Londonderry Cynon Valley Lancaster and Fleetwood Clacton Blackpool South Leeds Central Oldham West and Royton Cardiff Central Birmingham, Ladywood Wrexham Where child poverty is lowest The parliamentary constituencies with the lowest levels of child poverty (AHC) are Gordon, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Sheffield Hallam, and York Outer, with figures between 9 and 10 per cent (Table 4). The constituencies of both David Cameron (Witney) and Theresa May (Maidenhead) are among the 20 with the lowest child poverty. At the local authority level (Table 5), only Wokingham and Shetland Island have child poverty rates of around 10 percent, once housing costs have been taken into account. 4 Table 4 Top 20 parliamentary constituencies with lowest levels of child poverty across the UK Constituency 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. % of children in poverty 2015 (after housing costs) Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Sheffield, Hallam York Outer Wokingham Buckingham North East Hampshire Hitchin and Harpenden East Dunbartonshire Orkney and Shetland Henley Haltemprice and Howden North Somerset South Northamptonshire South West Surrey Winchester Witney Maidenhead Rushcliffe Horsham Table 5 9.2% 9.9% 10.0% 10.3% 11.0% 11.8% 11.9% 12.1% 12.2% 12.2% 12.2% 12.5% 12.6% 12.7% 12.9% 12.9% 13.1% 13.2% 13.2% 13.2% Top 20 local authorities with lowest levels of child poverty across the UK Local Authority 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. % of children in poverty 2015 (after housing costs) Wokingham Shetland Islands Ribble Valley Hart South Northamptonshire Harborough Waverley Aberdeenshire South Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire Mid Sussex Mole Valley Rushcliffe St Albans South Cambridgeshire Uttlesford Chiltern Rutland Richmond upon Thames Horsham 10.4% 10.6% 11.3% 11.9% 12.5% 12.7% 12.8% 13.1% 13.1% 13.1% 13.3% 13.3% 13.3% 13.7% 13.8% 13.8% 13.8% 13.9% 13.9% 14.0% 5 The local indicators in this report: The figures presented in this report are based on tax credit data, used to estimate the percentage of children on low incomes in local authorities, parliamentary constituencies and wards across the UK. They also use national trends in worklessness to estimate recent changes in the number of children who are in poverty because their parents have lost their jobs, to update the local tax credit data which is more than two years old. This is not a direct measure of exactly how many children are in poverty on the official definition, but is based on the closest to an equivalent measure we have of local levels of child poverty. The data have been adjusted to produce figures compatible with the measures derived from the national survey of income, showing how many children live in households with below 60 per cent of median income. Specifically, the adjustments ensure that the total reported level of child poverty, before and after housing costs, is similar when adding up all the local figures as the official national totals. Thus, the local data gives an idea of the relative poverty levels in different areas, but are adjusted to estimate what these actual levels would be if they could be measured on the same basis as the national household income survey. The local data starts by classifying children 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 family income is less than 60 per cent of median income. This indicator, compiled officially as a local estimate of child poverty, has been reported for August 2013 by HMRC. However, on its own it is provides an inaccurate picture of actual child poverty, considerably overstating the numbers in out-of-work poverty and understating the numbers in working poverty. While these factors may balance out overall, they can seriously misrepresent the overall trend where working and non-working poverty change in different ways, as well as misrepresenting local differences where working poverty is relatively more important in some areas than others. Therefore, the figures include an upward adjustment in the in-work figure and a downward adjustment in the out-of-work figure. The adjustments are made separately to for AHC and BHC estimates, in each case according to how the total of the local estimates compare to the actual national measure. Figures are then updated, taking into account Labour Force Survey data on the number of children in non-working households for the final quarter of 2015. A methodology paper provides more details about the calculations. 6 Regional child poverty figures East of England Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Babergh Basildon Bedford Braintree Breckland Brentwood Broadland Broxbourne Cambridge Castle Point Central Bedfordshire Chelmsford Colchester Dacorum East Cambridgeshire East Hertfordshire Epping Forest Fenland Forest Heath Great Yarmouth Harlow Hertsmere Huntingdonshire Ipswich King's Lynn and West Norfolk Luton Maldon Mid Suffolk North Hertfordshire North Norfolk Norwich Peterborough Rochford South Cambridgeshire South Norfolk Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Edmundsbury Stevenage Suffolk Coastal Tendring Three Rivers Thurrock Uttlesford Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield 20.4% 26.1% 25.3% 20.1% 23.4% 18.2% 17.1% 23.2% 22.1% 22.9% 18.5% 18.2% 22.5% 18.9% 15.8% 14.5% 21.1% 26.7% 23.7% 31.7% 25.5% 18.0% 17.3% 28.3% 24.7% 32.7% 19.5% 16.7% 17.5% 23.5% 32.7% 29.8% 16.0% 13.8% 18.1% 28.3% 13.7% 18.1% 25.6% 17.8% 30.8% 16.6% 26.4% 13.8% 21.5% 27.7% 20.2% 7 By Parliamentary Constituency Basildon and Billericay Bedford Braintree Brentwood and Ongar Broadland Broxbourne Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Castle Point Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Chelmsford Clacton Colchester Epping Forest Great Yarmouth Harlow Harwich and North Essex Hemel Hempstead Hertford and Stortford Hertsmere Hitchin and Harpenden Huntingdon Ipswich Luton North Luton South Maldon Mid Bedfordshire Mid Norfolk North East Bedfordshire North East Cambridgeshire North East Hertfordshire North Norfolk North West Cambridgeshire North West Norfolk Norwich North Norwich South Peterborough Rayleigh and Wickford Rochford and Southend East Saffron Walden South Basildon and East Thurrock South Cambridgeshire South East Cambridgeshire South Norfolk South Suffolk South West Bedfordshire South West Hertfordshire South West Norfolk Southend West St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Coastal Thurrock 25.3% 30.0% 20.2% 19.0% 18.3% 22.7% 17.9% 22.9% 22.9% 18.0% 19.1% 35.7% 25.9% 21.6% 31.7% 24.5% 19.6% 22.6% 14.5% 18.0% 12.1% 17.6% 28.3% 30.7% 34.2% 18.5% 13.5% 20.4% 17.6% 25.9% 19.2% 24.2% 21.6% 25.6% 26.7% 30.3% 32.2% 14.8% 32.9% 14.9% 28.1% 14.1% 13.7% 18.5% 20.4% 22.6% 13.5% 24.8% 21.6% 15.5% 24.3% 21.5% 27.5% 8 Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Suffolk Witham 20.8% 27.9% 20.6% 20.6% 17.6% East Midlands Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Amber Valley Ashfield Bassetlaw Blaby Bolsover Boston Broxtowe Charnwood Chesterfield Corby Daventry Derby Derbyshire Dales East Lindsey East Northamptonshire Erewash Gedling Harborough High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Kettering Leicester Lincoln Mansfield Melton Newark and Sherwood North East Derbyshire North Kesteven North West Leicestershire Northampton Nottingham Oadby and Wigston Rushcliffe Rutland South Derbyshire South Holland South Kesteven South Northamptonshire Wellingborough West Lindsey 22.6% 27.8% 23.0% 14.9% 26.6% 22.9% 19.9% 20.6% 26.3% 27.0% 18.0% 29.6% 16.8% 29.4% 18.5% 23.0% 22.3% 12.7% 18.3% 17.8% 22.3% 35.9% 28.9% 29.0% 17.1% 22.4% 21.9% 18.7% 19.2% 25.5% 37.0% 17.4% 13.3% 13.9% 18.0% 24.8% 19.3% 12.5% 24.0% 24.5% 10 By Parliamentary Constituency Amber Valley Ashfield Bassetlaw Bolsover Boston and Skegness Bosworth Broxtowe Charnwood Chesterfield Corby Daventry Derby North Derby South Derbyshire Dales Erewash Gainsborough Gedling Grantham and Stamford Harborough High Peak Kettering Leicester East Leicester South Leicester West Lincoln Loughborough Louth and Horncastle Mansfield Mid Derbyshire Newark North East Derbyshire North West Leicestershire Northampton North Northampton South Nottingham East Nottingham North Nottingham South Rushcliffe Rutland and Melton Sherwood Sleaford and North Hykeham South Derbyshire South Holland and The Deepings South Leicestershire South Northamptonshire Wellingborough 25.9% 28.5% 23.2% 27.0% 26.7% 18.3% 18.4% 15.3% 25.4% 23.4% 17.6% 25.5% 35.7% 16.6% 24.3% 24.3% 22.9% 20.2% 15.5% 18.3% 22.3% 34.3% 36.9% 36.7% 27.1% 23.1% 27.6% 29.0% 14.8% 20.1% 22.0% 19.2% 27.0% 28.3% 39.5% 39.0% 30.7% 13.2% 15.5% 24.0% 19.1% 18.0% 23.6% 15.0% 12.7% 23.0% 11 London Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden City of London Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster 36.6% 26.6% 24.7% 32.0% 21.4% 35.2% 18.1% 31.2% 30.1% 34.1% 33.7% 37.1% 31.0% 33.6% 26.6% 24.7% 27.1% 28.9% 37.7% 29.0% 20.4% 36.1% 34.7% 24.1% 37.5% 29.7% 13.9% 36.7% 21.0% 43.5% 34.6% 27.3% 37.7% 12 By Parliamentary Constituency Barking Battersea Beckenham Bermondsey and Old Southwark Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath and Crayford Brent Central Brent North Brentford and Isleworth Bromley and Chislehurst Camberwell and Peckham Carshalton and Wallington Chelsea and Fulham Chingford and Woodford Green Chipping Barnet Cities of London and Westminster Croydon Central Croydon North Croydon South Dagenham and Rainham Dulwich and West Norwood Ealing Central and Acton Ealing North Ealing, Southall East Ham Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield, Southgate Erith and Thamesmead Feltham and Heston Finchley and Golders Green Greenwich and Woolwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith Hampstead and Kilburn Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch and Upminster Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston and Surbiton Lewisham East Lewisham West and Penge Lewisham, Deptford 36.7% 27.1% 13.8% 39.5% 43.2% 25.1% 37.0% 26.7% 26.5% 24.4% 38.7% 23.9% 26.3% 26.0% 23.2% 31.2% 32.8% 35.9% 21.4% 33.5% 31.0% 29.1% 29.8% 31.4% 37.5% 39.2% 27.6% 33.6% 25.5% 35.4% 30.8% 24.7% 34.9% 34.1% 40.9% 33.5% 29.8% 26.4% 28.6% 33.2% 30.5% 37.9% 23.8% 26.2% 26.6% 34.9% 36.5% 38.9% 29.7% 22.1% 33.7% 33.3% 35.1% 13 Leyton and Wanstead Mitcham and Morden Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Poplar and Limehouse Putney Richmond Park Romford Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner Streatham Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Uxbridge and South Ruislip Vauxhall Walthamstow West Ham Westminster North Wimbledon 32.6% 30.0% 17.5% 20.6% 43.7% 27.9% 14.9% 24.7% 18.1% 33.1% 17.5% 27.0% 38.4% 13.8% 23.7% 39.6% 36.2% 37.7% 40.6% 15.2% 14 North East Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority County Durham Darlington Gateshead Hartlepool Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland South Tyneside Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland 28.0% 26.3% 26.7% 32.2% 37.0% 32.9% 24.3% 23.5% 29.7% 30.1% 25.8% 29.0% By Parliamentary Constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed Bishop Auckland Blaydon Blyth Valley City of Durham Darlington Easington Gateshead Hartlepool Hexham Houghton and Sunderland South Jarrow Middlesbrough Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Newcastle upon Tyne Central Newcastle upon Tyne East Newcastle upon Tyne North North Durham North Tyneside North West Durham Redcar Sedgefield South Shields Stockton North Stockton South Sunderland Central Tynemouth Wansbeck Washington and Sunderland West 22.1% 28.8% 21.9% 25.3% 24.2% 28.0% 32.1% 31.2% 32.2% 17.1% 27.1% 27.2% 39.9% 28.7% 38.2% 33.8% 25.7% 26.2% 26.6% 26.1% 31.1% 27.6% 32.2% 30.6% 21.2% 29.5% 21.8% 27.9% 30.4% 15 North West Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Allerdale Barrow-in-Furness Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolton Burnley Bury Carlisle Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Chorley Copeland Eden Fylde Halton Hyndburn Knowsley Lancaster Liverpool Manchester Oldham Pendle Preston Ribble Valley Rochdale Rossendale Salford Sefton South Lakeland South Ribble St. Helens Stockport Tameside Trafford Warrington West Lancashire Wigan Wirral Wyre 21.2% 25.3% 32.5% 35.5% 31.1% 31.9% 25.3% 21.6% 17.9% 21.3% 18.6% 22.6% 17.0% 20.1% 28.1% 29.5% 30.7% 24.5% 33.9% 40.0% 33.0% 28.8% 27.5% 11.3% 32.3% 26.7% 30.9% 25.0% 15.6% 18.8% 26.6% 20.8% 29.0% 20.6% 21.4% 21.4% 25.1% 26.2% 24.9% 16 By Parliamentary Constituency Altrincham and Sale West Ashton-under-Lyne Barrow and Furness Birkenhead Blackburn Blackley and Broughton Blackpool North and Cleveleys Blackpool South Bolton North East Bolton South East Bolton West Bootle Burnley Bury North Bury South Carlisle Cheadle Chorley City of Chester Congleton Copeland Crewe and Nantwich Denton and Reddish Eddisbury Ellesmere Port and Neston Fylde Garston and Halewood Halton Hazel Grove Heywood and Middleton Hyndburn Knowsley Lancaster and Fleetwood Leigh Liverpool, Riverside Liverpool, Walton Liverpool, Wavertree Liverpool, West Derby Macclesfield Makerfield Manchester Central Manchester, Gorton Manchester, Withington Morecambe and Lunesdale Oldham East and Saddleworth Oldham West and Royton Pendle Penrith and The Border Preston Ribble Valley Rochdale Rossendale and Darwen Salford and Eccles 14.6% 31.2% 23.7% 33.3% 34.9% 40.3% 32.2% 36.8% 33.7% 34.3% 23.4% 32.1% 31.9% 24.6% 26.0% 22.4% 14.3% 19.2% 22.0% 15.9% 21.7% 22.3% 25.5% 20.8% 22.5% 19.4% 27.7% 27.3% 18.1% 27.3% 29.5% 32.6% 25.5% 24.8% 40.2% 35.7% 33.0% 31.5% 15.9% 22.4% 44.8% 42.0% 30.7% 26.4% 31.6% 35.4% 28.8% 17.5% 34.0% 13.5% 35.9% 24.8% 31.9% 17 Sefton Central South Ribble Southport St Helens North St Helens South and Whiston Stalybridge and Hyde Stockport Stretford and Urmston Tatton Wallasey Warrington North Warrington South Weaver Vale West Lancashire Westmorland and Lonsdale Wigan Wirral South Wirral West Workington Worsley and Eccles South Wyre and Preston North Wythenshawe and Sale East 14.5% 18.4% 24.5% 27.1% 26.6% 28.0% 27.2% 26.6% 15.3% 30.7% 24.7% 18.5% 24.1% 22.4% 15.4% 26.7% 16.7% 17.6% 22.1% 29.4% 14.4% 30.5% 18 South East Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Adur Arun Ashford Aylesbury Vale Basingstoke and Deane Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Canterbury Cherwell Chichester Chiltern Crawley Dartford Dover East Hampshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Elmbridge Epsom and Ewell Fareham Gosport Gravesham Guildford Hart Hastings Havant Horsham Isle of Wight Lewes Maidstone Medway Mid Sussex Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Oxford Portsmouth Reading Reigate and Banstead Rother Runnymede Rushmoor Sevenoaks Shepway Slough South Bucks South Oxfordshire Southampton Spelthorne Surrey Heath 22.0% 22.4% 22.9% 15.6% 16.9% 16.5% 25.5% 23.8% 17.3% 19.6% 13.8% 25.6% 21.8% 29.6% 15.7% 27.9% 16.1% 14.4% 14.6% 14.2% 24.7% 26.5% 16.0% 11.9% 32.0% 26.3% 14.0% 28.5% 22.4% 20.9% 26.5% 13.3% 25.0% 13.3% 19.0% 27.0% 28.9% 24.2% 15.2% 27.3% 17.3% 18.7% 17.9% 29.4% 27.0% 15.5% 13.1% 29.9% 18.8% 14.1% 19 Swale Tandridge Test Valley Thanet Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Vale of White Horse Waverley Wealden West Berkshire West Oxfordshire Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Woking Wokingham Worthing Wycombe 28.4% 15.3% 15.3% 34.4% 17.7% 17.5% 14.2% 12.8% 17.5% 14.9% 13.1% 14.0% 15.6% 18.2% 10.4% 21.9% 18.5% By Parliamentary Constituency Aldershot Arundel and South Downs Ashford Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bexhill and Battle Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Bracknell Brighton, Kemptown Brighton, Pavilion Buckingham Canterbury Chatham and Aylesford Chesham and Amersham Chichester Crawley Dartford Dover East Hampshire East Surrey East Worthing and Shoreham Eastbourne Eastleigh Epsom and Ewell Esher and Walton Fareham Faversham and Mid Kent Folkestone and Hythe Gillingham and Rainham Gosport Gravesham 18.4% 15.2% 23.3% 17.8% 17.5% 19.3% 14.9% 23.4% 24.4% 16.9% 31.9% 20.8% 11.8% 23.4% 27.3% 13.8% 20.2% 25.6% 21.8% 30.3% 15.8% 15.9% 21.3% 27.4% 17.6% 13.6% 15.0% 14.3% 21.8% 28.8% 25.6% 23.3% 26.5% 20 Guildford Hastings and Rye Havant Henley Horsham Hove Isle of Wight Lewes Maidenhead Maidstone and The Weald Meon Valley Mid Sussex Milton Keynes North Milton Keynes South Mole Valley New Forest East New Forest West Newbury North East Hampshire North Thanet North West Hampshire Oxford East Oxford West and Abingdon Portsmouth North Portsmouth South Reading East Reading West Reigate Rochester and Strood Romsey and Southampton North Runnymede and Weybridge Sevenoaks Sittingbourne and Sheppey Slough South Thanet South West Surrey Southampton, Itchen Southampton, Test Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Wantage Wealden Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worthing West Wycombe 16.4% 31.8% 27.1% 12.2% 13.2% 23.8% 28.5% 21.6% 13.2% 20.7% 17.0% 13.8% 25.5% 24.5% 13.5% 19.6% 18.1% 15.4% 11.9% 30.2% 15.4% 29.4% 14.7% 24.7% 33.9% 19.6% 23.6% 14.7% 24.2% 17.4% 16.1% 17.5% 29.4% 27.0% 33.4% 12.9% 30.4% 29.2% 18.8% 15.2% 17.3% 17.4% 14.6% 17.9% 12.9% 15.0% 13.1% 17.7% 11.0% 21.9% 21.3% 21 South West Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Bath and North East Somerset Bournemouth Bristol, City of Cheltenham Christchurch Cornwall Cotswold East Devon East Dorset Exeter Forest of Dean Gloucester Isles of Scilly Mendip Mid Devon North Devon North Dorset North Somerset Plymouth Poole Purbeck Sedgemoor South Gloucestershire South Hams South Somerset Stroud Swindon Taunton Deane Teignbridge Tewkesbury Torbay Torridge West Devon West Dorset West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Wiltshire 19.3% 26.3% 27.8% 19.3% 19.6% 26.6% 16.6% 20.2% 17.2% 21.7% 22.3% 25.1% N/A 21.9% 19.9% 22.7% 19.0% 19.6% 27.5% 22.2% 23.5% 25.2% 16.3% 21.7% 20.4% 17.1% 22.2% 22.1% 20.5% 17.5% 30.2% 26.7% 23.7% 21.7% 26.2% 27.6% 18.2% 22 By Parliamentary Constituency Bath Bournemouth East Bournemouth West Bridgwater and West Somerset Bristol East Bristol North West Bristol South Bristol West Camborne and Redruth Central Devon Cheltenham Chippenham Christchurch Devizes East Devon Exeter Filton and Bradley Stoke Forest of Dean Gloucester Kingswood Mid Dorset and North Poole Newton Abbot North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Somerset North Somerset North Swindon North Wiltshire Plymouth, Moor View Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport Poole Salisbury Somerton and Frome South Dorset South East Cornwall South Swindon South West Devon South West Wiltshire St Austell and Newquay St Ives Stroud Taunton Deane Tewkesbury The Cotswolds Thornbury and Yate Tiverton and Honiton Torbay Torridge and West Devon Totnes Truro and Falmouth Wells West Dorset 20.1% 25.7% 27.6% 25.9% 25.5% 25.1% 29.3% 31.0% 27.6% 20.7% 19.7% 19.7% 19.0% 17.4% 19.1% 22.7% 15.8% 22.2% 26.2% 18.3% 17.2% 20.9% 27.3% 22.7% 18.6% 18.6% 12.6% 20.8% 15.7% 29.9% 31.6% 23.4% 17.2% 21.0% 26.5% 26.3% 23.8% 15.7% 20.8% 27.2% 27.2% 17.3% 22.1% 16.5% 16.3% 14.6% 20.5% 29.2% 25.5% 28.8% 23.4% 23.2% 22.1% 23 Weston-Super?Mare 25.5% Yeovil 20.2% 24 West Midlands Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Birmingham Bromsgrove Cannock Chase Coventry Dudley East Staffordshire Herefordshire, County of Lichfield Malvern Hills Newcastle-under-Lyme North Warwickshire Nuneaton and Bedworth Redditch Rugby Sandwell Shropshire Solihull South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Tamworth Telford and Wrekin Walsall Warwick Wolverhampton Worcester Wychavon Wyre Forest 37.4% 15.1% 23.1% 31.0% 26.9% 23.5% 22.4% 18.6% 21.9% 23.4% 21.9% 24.6% 22.7% 18.9% 34.9% 20.5% 20.4% 18.3% 17.5% 18.7% 33.2% 15.8% 22.7% 28.2% 33.3% 15.1% 34.6% 23.2% 17.2% 26.2% 25 By Parliamentary Constituency Aldridge-Brownhills Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, Erdington Birmingham, Hall Green Birmingham, Hodge Hill Birmingham, Ladywood Birmingham, Northfield Birmingham, Perry Barr Birmingham, Selly Oak Birmingham, Yardley Bromsgrove Burton Cannock Chase Coventry North East Coventry North West Coventry South Dudley North Dudley South Halesowen and Rowley Regis Hereford and South Herefordshire Kenilworth and Southam Lichfield Ludlow Meriden Mid Worcestershire Newcastle-under-Lyme North Herefordshire North Shropshire North Warwickshire Nuneaton Redditch Rugby Shrewsbury and Atcham Solihull South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent South Stone Stourbridge Stratford-on-Avon Sutton Coldfield Tamworth Telford The Wrekin Walsall North Walsall South Warley Warwick and Leamington West Bromwich East West Bromwich West 22.4% 32.5% 38.2% 40.5% 43.7% 47.3% 32.6% 35.5% 31.5% 35.2% 15.1% 24.5% 23.1% 34.9% 26.6% 29.5% 31.4% 27.0% 25.9% 22.9% 13.3% 17.5% 21.2% 23.8% 17.1% 23.9% 21.8% 21.7% 22.3% 25.4% 22.3% 19.1% 19.3% 16.3% 18.4% 18.8% 19.4% 35.9% 32.9% 29.3% 15.8% 24.7% 16.4% 14.0% 22.4% 31.5% 22.6% 36.1% 36.7% 37.6% 16.4% 33.4% 34.6% 26 West Worcestershire Wolverhampton North East Wolverhampton South East Wolverhampton South West Worcester Wyre Forest 21.2% 34.7% 37.9% 29.1% 23.2% 26.2% 27 Yorkshire and the Humber Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Barnsley Bradford Calderdale Craven Doncaster East Riding of Yorkshire Hambleton Harrogate Kingston upon Hull, City of Kirklees Leeds North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Richmondshire Rotherham Ryedale Scarborough Selby Sheffield Wakefield York 27.8% 32.7% 27.8% 16.1% 30.1% 19.6% 16.6% 14.3% 35.4% 27.2% 27.3% 32.0% 27.2% 16.0% 28.3% 20.6% 27.6% 18.5% 29.3% 26.8% 17.6% By Parliamentary Constituency Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Beverley and Holderness Bradford East Bradford South Bradford West Brigg and Goole Calder Valley Cleethorpes Colne Valley Dewsbury Don Valley Doncaster Central Doncaster North East Yorkshire Elmet and Rothwell Great Grimsby Halifax Haltemprice and Howden Harrogate and Knaresborough Hemsworth Huddersfield Keighley Kingston upon Hull East 27.7% 30.1% 27.2% 19.6% 38.3% 34.4% 37.2% 22.5% 22.1% 27.6% 22.4% 27.2% 28.1% 30.5% 31.3% 24.2% 15.5% 35.1% 32.4% 12.5% 14.2% 27.2% 32.3% 24.3% 33.3% 28 Kingston upon Hull North Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Leeds Central Leeds East Leeds North East Leeds North West Leeds West Morley and Outwood Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Penistone and Stocksbridge Pudsey Richmond (Yorks) Rother Valley Rotherham Scarborough and Whitby Scunthorpe Selby and Ainsty Sheffield Central Sheffield South East Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield, Hallam Sheffield, Heeley Shipley Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton Wakefield Wentworth and Dearne York Central York Outer 35.8% 34.8% 41.8% 35.5% 23.3% 18.9% 33.4% 16.8% 28.0% 16.1% 14.8% 17.2% 23.0% 35.4% 27.5% 29.8% 18.2% 34.9% 29.2% 39.7% 10.0% 29.4% 18.9% 15.0% 19.4% 27.9% 27.2% 24.4% 10.3% 29 Northern Ireland Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Antrim Ards Armagh Ballymena Ballymoney Banbridge Belfast Carrickfergus Castlereagh Coleraine Cookstown Craigavon Derry 13 Down Dungannon Fermanagh Larne Limavady Lisburn Magherafelt Moyle Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey North Down Omagh Strabane 19.2% 21.3% 23.2% 20.7% 23.3% 19.3% 30.6% 21.7% 15.4% 25.7% 23.6% 22.0% 33.1% 22.7% 22.6% 24.4% 21.4% 30.8% 20.9% 22.2% 25.1% 27.9% 20.7% 18.6% 25.0% 29.7% By Parliamentary Constituency Belfast East Belfast North Belfast South Belfast West East Antrim East Londonderry Fermanagh and South Tyrone Foyle Lagan Valley Mid Ulster Newry and Armagh North Antrim North Down South Antrim South Down Strangford Upper Bann West Tyrone 22.4% 32.9% 20.1% 33.6% 20.6% 27.3% 22.9% 33.8% 16.9% 23.4% 27.4% 22.1% 19.0% 18.2% 22.9% 20.9% 22.0% 27.0% 30 Scotland Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh, City of Eileanan an Iar Falkirk Fife Glasgow City Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Islands Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders Shetland Islands South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian 18.2% 13.1% 20.6% 20.4% 27.3% 24.3% 27.7% 28.0% 14.2% 20.3% 14.5% 22.0% 17.6% 22.0% 25.0% 34.1% 19.2% 27.9% 22.5% 17.2% 30.4% 25.0% 14.1% 18.2% 23.6% 21.0% 10.6% 25.7% 22.0% 18.8% 26.5% 22.8% 31 By Parliamentary Constituency Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Airdrie and Shotts Angus Argyll and Bute Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Banff and Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Central Ayrshire Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline and West Fife East Dunbartonshire East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh South West Edinburgh West Na h-Eileanan an Iar Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Lanark and Hamilton East Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston Midlothian Moray Motherwell and Wishaw North Ayrshire and Arran North East Fife Ochil and South Perthshire Orkney and Shetland Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South 23.0% 15.7% 28.2% 23.3% 20.4% 30.0% 18.9% 22.7% 23.0% 27.0% 22.6% 22.2% 24.8% 20.0% 22.7% 27.9% 21.0% 12.2% 19.6% 20.3% 14.5% 27.3% 23.7% 18.5% 23.4% 17.5% 17.6% 21.1% 39.2% 33.7% 31.0% 37.6% 33.2% 29.3% 33.4% 30.6% 9.2% 27.9% 17.7% 26.7% 27.7% 23.7% 23.1% 23.0% 22.5% 17.2% 26.1% 29.3% 18.4% 21.7% 12.2% 22.0% 25.2% 32 Perth and North Perthshire Ross, Skye and Lochaber Rutherglen and Hamilton West Stirling West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine West Dunbartonshire 19.7% 18.0% 23.0% 18.8% 9.9% 26.5% 33 Wales Percentage of children in poverty (after housing costs) By Local Authority Blaenau Gwent/ Blaenau Gwent Bridgend/ Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr Caerphilly/ Caerffili Cardiff/ Caerdydd Carmarthenshire/ Sir Gaerfyrddin Ceredigion/ Ceredigion Conwy/ Conwy Denbighshire/ Sir Ddinbych Flintshire/ Sir y Fflint Gwynedd/ Gwynedd Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn Merthyr Tydfil/ Merthyr Tudful Monmouthshire/ Sir Fynwy Neath Port Talbot/ Castell-nedd Port Talbot Newport/ Casnewydd Pembrokeshire/ Sir Benfro Powys/ Powys Rhondda Cynon Taf/Rhondda Cynon Taf Swansea/ Abertawe The Vale of Glamorgan/ Bro Morgannwg Torfaen/ Tor-faen Wrexham, Wrecsam 32.2% 29.8% 28.3% 32.2% 28.7% 26.1% 26.9% 27.6% 22.6% 23.1% 26.9% 31.4% 20.6% 29.3% 30.8% 27.2% 21.5% 29.2% 27.9% 24.7% 28.7% 25.8% By Parliamentary Constituency Aberavon Aberconwy Alyn and Deeside Arfon Blaenau Gwent Brecon and Radnorshire Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Central Cardiff North Cardiff South and Penarth Cardiff West Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Ceredigion Clwyd South Clwyd West Cynon Valley Delyn Dwyfor Meirionnydd Gower Islwyn Llanelli 32.9% 24.6% 21.6% 23.9% 32.2% 20.6% 27.7% 28.9% 34.2% 18.3% 36.1% 33.1% 27.9% 27.7% 26.1% 26.1% 26.6% 33.8% 23.7% 22.3% 20.0% 26.6% 29.8% 34 Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Monmouth Montgomeryshire Neath Newport East Newport West Ogmore Pontypridd Preseli Pembrokeshire Rhondda Swansea East Swansea West Torfaen Vale of Clwyd Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham Ynys Môn 31.8% 21.2% 22.2% 25.7% 30.5% 28.6% 30.4% 22.7% 26.6% 32.7% 33.2% 29.3% 29.5% 29.7% 26.7% 25.6% 26.9% i End Child Poverty is hosted by Child Poverty Action Group. 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