Official Statistics

Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014 to 2023

Annual statistics on the number and proportion of children living in low income families..

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 21 March 2024

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Children in low income families: local area statistics, financial year ending 2023

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This release has replaced DWP’s Children in out-of-work benefit households and HMRC’s Personal tax credits: Children in low-income families local measure releases.

For both Relative and Absolute measures, Before Housing Costs, these annual statistics include counts of children by:

• geography, including by:
  • local authority
  • Westminster parliamentary constituency
  • Ward
  • Middle Super Output Area
• year (2014 to 2023)
• age of child
• gender of child
• family type
• work status of the family

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Published 21 March 2024