Constituency data: People claiming unemployment benefits

This page provides constituency-level data on people claiming unemployment benefits, or the ‘claimant count’.

The claimant count is the number of people who are claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, or are claiming Universal Credit and are required to seek work.

The claimant rate is the number of claimants as a proportion of residents aged 16–64.

Further information on the claimant count is provided in the Library briefing People claiming unemployment benefits by constituency.

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Figures are not seasonally adjusted.

Under Universal Credit, a broader span of claimants are required to look for work than under Jobseeker’s Allowance. This has the effect of increasing the number of unemployed claimants.

The coronavirus pandemic also increased the number of unemployed claimants, and the claimant count rose much more quickly than the unemployment rate during coronavirus lockdowns.

For more details see the Library’s briefing paper on Understanding statistics on employment, unemployment and earnings.

ONS, Claimant count by sex and age, via Nomis