Number of children, adults, and pensioners in London in poverty by working status (2012/2013, 2017/2018 and 2022/2023)
Last updated: May 2024
Next estimated update: May 2025
What does this indicator show?
This indicator shows the number of people living in poverty in London, split by life-stage (children, adults and pensioners) and the working-status of their household. A ‘working household’ is one where at least one adult is in work and a ‘workless household’ is one in which no adults are in work.
What does it tell us?
We can see that more Londoners living in poverty are in working households than in workless households. This has been consistently the case for the last decade. In 2022/23 we find some 930,000 people in poverty are living in working households. By contrast, 380,000 people in poverty are living in working-age workless households.
A similar pattern is true if we look at children in poverty. 480,000 children in poverty live in households where someone is in work, whereas 180,000 live in workless households.
200,000 pensioners in London are in poverty.
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