Claimant count -- Southwark
13,350, latest July 2026.
13,350 was the total. The largest year-on-year movement was Claimant count -- Southwark, 1% higher (13,350).
Before you use these figures
- Not a measure of unemployment: The claimant count is a count of people claiming Universal Credit (who are required to seek work) or Jobseeker's Allowance, not a count of unemployed people. It includes some people in part-time work and excludes people who are unemployed but not claiming. ONS's Labour Force Survey is the measure of unemployment, and is a different figure.
- Unusually high compared with other areas: This figure is unusually high compared with other areas currently publishing this dataset — 13,350 against a typical figure (median) of about 2,700 across 360 other areas. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward comparison.
- Unusually high in November 2004: This area's November 2004 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for November 2004 — 9,130 against a typical figure (median) of about 1,310 across 349 other areas that period. No longer this dataset's latest period, so a look at just today's headline figure would not have caught it -- flagged here from a check across the dataset's full history. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward trend.
- Four nations, one series: Universal Credit and Jobseeker's Allowance operate UK-wide, so this series is directly comparable across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland -- unlike some UK statistics that are only published for some nations.
Cite this figure:
Claimant count -- Southwark 13,350 for Southwark, July 2026 StatsMapped last confirmed this figure on 30 Aug 2026. Source: Nomis -- Claimant Count by sex and age (NM_162_1), via statsmapped.com https://statsmapped.com/united-kingdom/local-authority/southwark/uk_live_register_e09000028