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.
South Holland
0.0 ppChange over 12 months, percentage points
The claimant rate in South Holland moved by 0.0 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 148th lowest of 361 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- South Holland (E07000140)
- Change over 12 months, percentage points
- 0.0 pp
- United Kingdom, July 2025 to July 2026
- +2.6 pp
- Rank
- joint 148th lowest of 361 areas with a published figure
- Percentile
- 18% 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 South Holland moved by 0.0 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 148th lowest 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):
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- 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
- Methodology
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