North West Poverty Monitor 2024: National poverty data
This data is drawn from the Household Below Average Income (HBAI) data series. HBAI is published annually in March. It reports on levels of poverty across the UK, broken down by a range of characteristics. The most recent data, published in March 2024 is for data relating to 2022/23.
We have chosen a selection of indicators to show on these charts, primarily showing data using the relative low income measure of poverty after housing costs (i.e. poverty as measured by those households with an income below 60% of median income once housing costs are taken into account). This is the most commonly used measure of poverty in the UK.
Poverty by family type
This chart shows the poverty rate by family type overtime. It demonstrates how the risk of poverty is much greater for children than for the population overall.
Poverty by ethnicity
This chart shows poverty by different ethnic groups within the population. It shows contrasting rates of poverty between different groups.
In the absence of quality local data on poverty and ethnicity, this national data can be useful in understanding the risk of poverty among the communities you work with.
Poverty by number of children in the household
This charts shows that children in households where there are three or more children are at much greater risk of poverty than those households where there is one or two children.
While the risk of poverty has always been higher for children in households with three or more children, in has become more pronounced in recent years.
Poverty by disability/non-disability
This charts shows that the risk of poverty among households where there is at least one person with a disability is much greater than those households where no one is disabled.
Child poverty by work status
This chart shows the percentage of children in poverty by economic status of the household. Children in households where no one works are at greater risk of poverty.
In spite of this, data in HBAI also shows us that more than two-thirds of all children living in poverty are in households where at least one adult goes out to work.
Poverty by housing tenure
This chart shows the percentage of people experience poverty across different household tenure types.
People in both socially and privately rented housing are at greater risk of poverty compared to those who own their own home.
Child poverty by couple families/lone parent families
This chart shows that children in lone parent families are at greater risk of poverty.
While there have been times when the poverty rate for lone parents families has fallen, it remains much higher than the risk of poverty for children in couple families.
Pensioner poverty by age
This chart shows significant differences in the pensioner poverty rate when broken down by age.
Younger pensioners are less likely to be in poverty than their older counterparts.