Official statistics (experimental) on Universal Credit for
England, Scotland and Wales released according to
arrangements approved by the UK Statistics
Authority.
Summary tables for Universal Credit statistics are available
on Stat-Xplore.
The bulletin and background information and methodology
document have been reviewed and updated. The Universal Credit
statistics production team encourage feedback on what changes
are welcomed and what further improvements could be made.
Email your feedback to: team.ucos@dwp.gov.uk.
These experimental statistics contain data for the total
number of people:
- who have submitted a claim for Universal Credit with a
personal declaration to 9 April 2020
- who have made a claim and have attended an initial
interview, accepted their claimant commitment, and gone on to
start Universal Credit up to 9 April 2020
- who are on Universal Credit at 9 April 2020
They also contain data for the total number of households on
Universal Credit at 13 February 2020.
All data is available on Stat-Xplore.
People on Universal Credit statistics has count data by:
- Jobcentre Plus office
- country, region, local authority and census area output
- Westminster parliamentary constituency
- postcode (district)
- age
- conditionality regime
- duration
- gender
- employment status (to 12 March 2020)
Claims on Universal Credit statistics has count data by
postcode (area).
Starts on Universal Credit statistics has count data by:
- Jobcentre Plus office
- postcode (area)
- age
- gender
Households on Universal Credit statistics has counts and
average (mean) payment by:
- Jobcentre Plus office
- country, region, local authority and census area output
- Westminster parliamentary constituency
- postcode (district)
- additional elements (carer, child, childcare, disabled
child, housing (by tenure), limited capability to work
- alternative payment arrangements (managed payment to
landlord, more frequent payment, split payment)
- Scottish choices (direct payment to landlord, more
frequent payment)
- family type
- monthly award (bands)
- payment indicator
- payment timeliness (to 9 January 2020)
Interactive statistics
View statistics on the
Universal Credit claimants at Jobcentre Plus office level in
an interactive map.
View an interactive map
which shows statistics on households on Universal Credit at
Local Authority level
View an interactive
dashboard of the latest Universal Credit household statistics
by region.
Find further breakdowns of these statistics in Stat-Xplore, an online
tool for exploring some of DWP’s main statistics.
