Source · ONS / DWP
The only genuinely monthly series at local authority level. An administrative count of benefit claimants - not a measure of unemployment
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publisher | ONS / DWP |
| Licence | OGL-UK-3.0 |
| How often | Monthly |
| Finest geography | lad |
| Levels held | country, county_ua, itl1, itl2, itl3, lad, nuts3, parliamentary_constituency, region |
| Covers | Jan. 31, 1986 to Aug. 31, 2026 |
| Basis | administrative |
| Uncertainty | none |
| Newest figure | Aug. 31, 2026, published 15 September 2026 |
| Our aggregations | 102192 figures at a geography the producer does not publish, summed from published local ones and labelled wherever they appear |
| Measure | Subject | Latest | Withheld | Caveats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claimant count | labour_market | August 2026 | ||
| Claimants as a proportion of residents aged 16-64 | labour_market | August 2026 |
Harvested from the producer, not written by us. We link rather than copy: a reader who wants the full methodology wants their page, not our version of it.
| Document | Type | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Nomis dataset NM_162_1 | sourcemetadata | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Contact: Nomis | contact |