Child poverty (UK)

Updated: 24th August 2023

This uses data for the old Parliamentary constituencies (pre July 2024).

This page provides constituency-level data on child poverty in the UK (2021/2). Use the slider to switch between relative and absolute poverty.

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Data: child poverty (House of Commons Library; OGL). / Hex layout: 2010 constituencies (Open Innovations and contributors)

Notes

These figures were published by the HMRC and DWP for the first time in March 2020 and updated in March 2023.

Relative poverty: households with income below 60% of the median (middle) household income. This can be seen as a measure of inequality between low- and middle-income households.

Absolute poverty: households with income below 60% of (inflation-adjusted) median income in 2010/11. This is often used to look at how living standards of low-income households are changing over time.

In these statistics, income is measured before housing costs are taken into account. The median is the point where half of household incomes are higher and half lower.