Job Seeker's Allowance by borough
Key points
- The number of people claiming JSA has almost doubled in Outer London. This means there are now more JSA recipients in Outer London than Inner London.
- All seven boroughs in the Outer East & NE are among the ten London boroughs with the largest increases in JSA recipients.
- The three boroughs with the lowest increases are all in the Inner West.
JSA by borough
What does this graph show?
This graph shows the proportion of working-age adults receiving JSA in each London borough, averaged across the four quarters of 2009. It is ranked according to the increase since 2007. The black line, from top to bottom, shows the average level for London. The average is just over 4%, up from around 2.5% in 2007.
Barking & Dagenham has seen the biggest rise in JSA recipiency rising by more than 50% in two years. It also has the third highest level overall. Havering and Enfield had the next highest increases. Hackney and Tower Hamlets have the highest levels overall. What is most striking about his graph is that all of the 10 boroughs with the largest increases are in Outer London. These include all of the boroughs in the Outer East & North East.
Conversely, the three boroughs with the lowest rates of increase are all in the Inner West of London - Camden, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea. Not one borough in the Inner West is in the top ten boroughs either for increase or for the overall level of JSA receipt. This emphasises a point made strongly in the previous report, that the image of an entirely deprived Inner London is incorrect. The differences between east and west are stark.
Boroughs at the top of the graph, which also cross the black line, have a high rate of JSA recipiency that is increasing quickly. Barking & Dagenham, Greenwich, Ealing, and Haringey all fall into this group.
Additional information
In 2007, more JSA claimants lived in Inner than Outer London. This is no longer the case. Since then, whereas the number of JSA recipients in Inner London has increased from 65,000 to 100,000, it has almost doubled in Outer London, to around 120,000.
Data used
DWP Longitudinal Study, 2007 and 2009
Receiving JSA is not the same as being unemployed. The unemployment indicators show that 7% of the population of London were unemployed, but only 4% received JSA. It is possible to be unemployed and not qualify for JSA. The entitlement to contribution-based JSA only lasts six months. Thereafter, the benefit is means tested, which results in many people losing the right to the benefit.
Indicator last updated: 13 October 2010
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- Mortgage repossessions by borough
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- Households in temporary accommodation by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
- Working age out-of-work benefits by borough
- Mortgage repossessions by borough
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- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Attainment at age 11 by borough
- Premature death by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
- Mortgage repossessions by borough
- Landlord repossessions by borough
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- Income inequalities within London boroughs
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- Households in temporary accommodation by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
- Mortgage repossessions by borough
- Landlord repossessions by borough
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- Low-paid jobs by borough
- Newly homeless households by borough
- Overcrowding by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
Other indicators in Kensington and Chelsea
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Pay inequalities within London
- Premature death by region
- Overcrowding by borough
- Premature death by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
- Landlord repossessions by borough
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- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Premature death by region
- Low-paid residents by borough
- Low-paid jobs by borough
- Attainment at age 11 by borough
- Newly homeless households by borough
- Households in temporary accommodation by borough
- Overcrowding by borough
- Premature death by borough
- Mortgage repossessions by borough
- Job Seeker's Allowance by ward
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- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Low-paid jobs by borough
- Newly homeless households by borough
- Overcrowding by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
- Landlord repossessions by borough
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- Poverty in Inner and Outer London
- Working-age out-of-work benefits by region
- Working age out-of-work benefits within London
- Income inequality in London compared with other English regions
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Pay inequalities within London
- Working-age adults lacking work over time
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Adult ill health
- Adult ill-health by borough
- Low-paid residents by borough
- Low-paid jobs by borough
- Low income and ethnicity in London
- Lacking work by ethnicity
- Not working by country of birth
- Not working by ethnicity and country of birth
- Low pay by ethnicity
- Premature death by borough
- Low-paid residents by region
- Low-paid jobs by sub-region
- Families receiving in-work benefits
- Working age out-of-work benefits by borough
- Unemployment rates over time
- Unemployment numbers by sub-region
- Unemployment by ethnicity, country of birth and gender
- Unemployment in London by age
- Part-time work
- Job Seeker's Allowance by region
- Child, adult and pensioner poverty
- London's low income population
- Child and adult poverty and work
- Recession impact on out-of-work benefits
- Young adult unemployment over time
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Glossary
Outer London:
Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Bromley, Bexley, Brent, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton, Waltham Forest
Inner London:
Camden, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster