Universal Credit: 29 April 2013 to 9 April 2020
Official experimental statistics including the number of people and households on Universal Credit, starts and claims.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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Details
The latest release of these statistics can be found in the Universal Credit statistics collection.
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.
Next releases
People on Universal Credit statistics are released monthly.
Next monthly release: 16 June 2020
Households on Universal Credit statistics, and claims and starts for Universal Credit are released quarterly.
Next quarterly release: 11 August 2020
Pre-release access
In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24 hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We’ve published the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24 hours pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics.
More information
Read the background information and methodology note for more information about the Universal Credit statistics.