Number of children, adults, and pensioners in London in poverty by working status (2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025)
Last updated: September 2026
Next estimated update: May 2027
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 households where nobody works. This has consistently been the case throughout the period shown.
In 2024/25 we find some 1,160,000 people in poverty are living in working households. By contrast 380,000 people in poverty are living in workless households.
A similar pattern is true if we look at children in poverty. 560,000 children in poverty live in households where someone is in work, whereas 230,000 live in workless households.
220,000 pensioners in London are in poverty.