ONS · Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026 · Local authority
How many people near you claim unemployment-related benefits?
The share of residents aged 16 to 64 claiming unemployment-related benefits in each council area, as the ONS publishes it. This is a count of claims from the benefit system, not a measure of unemployment, and who it counts has changed as the benefit system has changed.
Inverclyde
+0.2 ppChange over 12 months, percentage points
The claimant rate in Inverclyde moved by +0.2 pp over twelve months (Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026), compared with +2.6 pp for United Kingdom, July 2025 to July 2026 — joint 80th highest of 361 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- Inverclyde (S12000018)
- Change over 12 months, percentage points
- +0.2 pp
- United Kingdom, July 2025 to July 2026
- +2.6 pp
- Rank
- joint 80th highest of 361 areas with a published figure
- Percentile
- 70% of areas with a figure are below it
- Period
- Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026
- Release
- Claimant count, July 2026, released 2026-08-18
- Published by
- ONS
- Status
- Published figure, unchanged
The claimant rate in Inverclyde moved by +0.2 pp over twelve months (Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026), compared with +2.6 pp for United Kingdom, July 2025 to July 2026 — joint 80th highest of 361 areas with a published figure. Source: ONS.
Highest areas
| # | Area | change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston · profile | +0.7 pp |
| 2 | Isles of Scilly · profile | +0.6 pp |
| 3 | Thanet · profile | +0.5 pp |
| 4 | East Lindsey · profile | +0.4 pp |
| 5 | East Lothian · profile | +0.4 pp |
| 6 | Fenland · profile | +0.4 pp |
| 7 | Maidstone · profile | +0.4 pp |
| 8 | Harlow · profile | +0.4 pp |
| 9 | Aberdeen City · profile | +0.3 pp |
| 10 | Breckland · profile | +0.3 pp |
Lowest areas
| # | Area | change |
|---|---|---|
| 361 | Derry City and Strabane · profile | −0.6 pp |
| 360 | Luton · profile | −0.5 pp |
| 359 | Waltham Forest · profile | −0.4 pp |
| 358 | Kingston upon Hull, City of · profile | −0.4 pp |
| 357 | Fermanagh and Omagh · profile | −0.4 pp |
| 356 | Islington · profile | −0.4 pp |
| 355 | Brent · profile | −0.4 pp |
| 354 | Causeway Coast and Glens · profile | −0.3 pp |
| 353 | Stoke-on-Trent · profile | −0.3 pp |
| 352 | Newham · profile | −0.3 pp |
All 361 areas, ranked
Ranked by change over 12 months, percentage points, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.
What this map shows
361 of 361 local authority areas have a current value for all claimants (change over 12 months, percentage points), Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.
Everyone the count covers: Jobseeker's Allowance claimants and Universal Credit claimants required to look for work.
Take the data
- Download all areas (CSV)
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- Permalink: https://civometry.com/maps/claimant-count/all/change-12m
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Embed (static map with title, period, official source and a link back):
<iframe src="https://civometry.com/embed/maps/claimant-count/all/change-12m?level=lad&measure=change_count" width="720" height="700" style="border:0;max-width:100%" title="All claimants, change over 12 months, percentage points, by local authority: Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026 | Civometry" loading="lazy"></iframe>Source and method
- Data
- Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis) (ONS).
- Denominator
- None is applied here. The ONS divides its own count by the area's residents aged 16 to 64 and publishes the percentage; this layer draws that published figure. Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis).
- Boundaries
- ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
- Basemap
- Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.
- Formula
- newest published percentage − the percentage published twelve months earlier
- Stale areas
- An area whose newest published month is earlier than the newest any area carries is shown as no current data, with both months named. Nothing is carried forward.
- Method
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