One in 11 adults in Blaenau Gwent now get PIP’s enhanced mobility rate

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Published 21 August 2026

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Four million people in England and Wales were entitled to Personal Independence Payment in April 2026. Just over half of them, 2,063,290, receive the enhanced mobility rate. That award is worth £80 a week in 2026/27 and it is the passport to the Motability scheme, which lets claimants exchange the payment for a leased car, powered wheelchair or mobility scooter. Where those claimants live is remarkably uneven. In Blaenau Gwent one adult in every 11 gets the enhanced mobility rate. In Wokingham it is one in 54. Review Mobility has compiled the claim figures for all 318 local authorities in England and Wales into a single league table, published in full below with a free downloadable dataset.

Key findings

Blaenau Gwent has the highest overall PIP claim rate in England and Wales, at 164 claims per 1,000 adults aged 16 and over. That is roughly one adult in six. Merthyr Tydfil (161) and Knowsley (160) are close behind.
The five highest enhanced mobility rates are Blaenau Gwent (92 awards per 1,000 adults), Merthyr Tydfil (91), Neath Port Talbot (86), Caerphilly (82) and Knowsley (81). Four of the five are in the south Wales valleys.
The lowest rates outside the City of London are in Hart in Hampshire (17 per 1,000), South Oxfordshire (18), Wokingham (18), Waverley (19) and Elmbridge (19). The gap between Blaenau Gwent and Wokingham is five to one.
Wales has a claim rate 44% higher than England: 111 PIP claims per 1,000 adults against 77. For enhanced mobility awards the Welsh rate is 60% higher.
In 60 of the 318 council areas, at least one adult in ten now has a PIP award.
The caseload grew 7.2% in the year to April 2026. Enhanced mobility awards grew faster, at 7.9%.
Growth is now fastest where claims are rarest. Uttlesford (+12.5%), Braintree (+11.5%), Hart (+11.2%), Enfield (+11.1%) and Ealing (+11.1%) top the growth table, while the Welsh valleys, which already have the highest rates, grew slowest at just over 4%.

What the enhanced mobility rate is worth

PIP has two parts, daily living and mobility, and each is paid at a standard or enhanced rate. In 2026/27 the mobility part pays £30.30 a week at the standard rate and £80.00 at the enhanced rate, which is £4,160 a year. The award is tax free and does not depend on income, savings or whether the claimant works.

The enhanced rate matters for a second reason. Only claimants on the enhanced mobility rate, with at least 12 months left on their award, can join the Motability scheme. Motability states that it cannot accept the standard mobility rate. The scheme exchanges the weekly payment for a lease on a car, a powered wheelchair or a mobility scooter, with insurance, servicing and breakdown cover included. The 2,063,290 enhanced mobility awards in England and Wales therefore define the scheme’s potential customer base, and at current rates they represent roughly £8.6 billion a year in mobility payments.

Standard rate claimants who want powered transport buy it privately instead. Our guides to mobility scooters and wheelchairs cover that route.

The 15 highest rates

Rank	Local authority	PIP claims, April 2026	Claims per 1,000 adults	Enhanced mobility awards	Enhanced awards per 1,000 adults	Caseload change in year
1	Blaenau Gwent	9,170	164.2	5,143	92.1	+4.7%
2	Merthyr Tydfil	7,667	161.3	4,328	91.0	+4.2%
3	Neath Port Talbot	17,750	150.3	10,152	86.0	+4.2%
4	Caerphilly	21,284	146.5	11,958	82.3	+4.6%
5	Knowsley	21,010	160.0	10,614	80.8	+6.3%
6	Rhondda Cynon Taf	27,010	135.6	15,225	76.4	+4.4%
7	Torfaen	10,462	135.8	5,853	76.0	+4.7%
8	Blackpool	17,357	146.4	8,530	72.0	+7.0%
9	Bridgend	14,852	121.6	8,695	71.2	+4.2%
10	Carmarthenshire	18,716	117.8	11,092	69.8	+5.0%
11	Liverpool	59,250	140.0	29,156	68.9	+6.1%
12	Hartlepool	11,607	143.1	5,586	68.9	+6.5%
13	Denbighshire	9,738	119.6	5,561	68.3	+4.8%
14	Swansea	24,377	116.8	13,969	66.9	+5.3%
15	Halton	14,330	132.9	7,122	66.0	+6.0%

The 15 council areas with the highest enhanced mobility award rates. Source: DWP Stat-Xplore and ONS population estimates, analysis by Review Mobility.

The pattern is hard to miss. The top of the table is dominated by the former coalfield and heavy industry areas of south Wales and the north of England, along with coastal towns such as Blackpool, and it tracks the geography of long-term ill health that shows up in every census. These are also, in the main, the areas with the oldest and poorest populations in Britain.

The 15 lowest rates

Rank	Local authority	PIP claims, April 2026	Claims per 1,000 adults	Enhanced mobility awards	Enhanced awards per 1,000 adults	Caseload change in year
302	Cotswold	3,186	41.2	1,649	21.3	+7.2%
303	Mid Sussex	5,509	41.6	2,808	21.2	+9.7%
304	East Hertfordshire	5,501	43.0	2,694	21.0	+9.0%
305	West Oxfordshire	4,184	41.7	2,088	20.8	+6.8%
306	Vale of White Horse	5,098	41.4	2,547	20.7	+9.5%
307	Cambridge	5,347	41.3	2,627	20.3	+6.0%
308	Surrey Heath	2,970	38.1	1,559	20.0	+7.4%
309	Richmond upon Thames	6,285	39.5	3,168	19.9	+8.9%
310	Windsor and Maidenhead	4,793	36.8	2,531	19.4	+9.9%
311	Guildford	4,781	37.7	2,427	19.1	+7.9%
312	Elmbridge	4,072	36.0	2,156	19.0	+8.9%
313	Waverley	3,895	34.8	2,071	18.5	+8.8%
314	Wokingham	5,133	34.1	2,761	18.4	+10.6%
315	South Oxfordshire	4,663	35.9	2,314	17.8	+9.4%
316	Hart	2,920	34.6	1,463	17.3	+11.2%

The 15 council areas with the lowest enhanced mobility award rates, excluding the City of London and the Isles of Scilly, whose resident populations are too small for a fair comparison. Source: DWP Stat-Xplore and ONS population estimates, analysis by Review Mobility.

The bottom of the table is the Home Counties commuter belt: Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire districts, plus Cambridge and Richmond upon Thames. The City of London (8 awards per 1,000 adults) and the Isles of Scilly sit lower still, but with resident adult populations of about 15,000 and 2,000 they are excluded from the highlight tables as too small for a fair comparison. Both remain in the full table below.

Growth is fastest where claims are rarest

Nationally the PIP caseload rose 7.2% in the year to April 2026, from 3,735,275 to 4,002,799. No local authority saw its caseload fall. The spread runs from about 4% in the Welsh valleys to more than 12% in Uttlesford in Essex.

The growth map is close to a mirror image of the rate map. Setting aside the tiny Isles of Scilly, the fastest-growing caseloads are Uttlesford, Braintree, Hart, Enfield, Ealing, Woking, Brent, Tewkesbury and Runnymede, all in the southern half of England and most of them near the bottom of the league table. The slowest growth is in Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf at the top of it. On these trends the gap is narrowing, slowly. At current growth rates Blaenau Gwent would still have nearly three times Wokingham’s claim rate a decade from now.

The full league table of 318 council areas

The table ranks every local authority in England and Wales by enhanced mobility awards per 1,000 adults aged 16 and over. You can also download the full dataset as a CSV file, which adds ONS area codes, the April 2025 comparators, enhanced share of caseload and the adult population denominators.

Rank	Local authority	PIP claims, April 2026	Claims per 1,000 adults	Enhanced mobility awards	Enhanced awards per 1,000 adults	Caseload change in year
1	Blaenau Gwent	9,170	164.2	5,143	92.1	+4.7%
2	Merthyr Tydfil	7,667	161.3	4,328	91.0	+4.2%
3	Neath Port Talbot	17,750	150.3	10,152	86.0	+4.2%
4	Caerphilly	21,284	146.5	11,958	82.3	+4.6%
5	Knowsley	21,010	160.0	10,614	80.8	+6.3%
6	Rhondda Cynon Taf	27,010	135.6	15,225	76.4	+4.4%
7	Torfaen	10,462	135.8	5,853	76.0	+4.7%
8	Blackpool	17,357	146.4	8,530	72.0	+7.0%
9	Bridgend	14,852	121.6	8,695	71.2	+4.2%
10	Carmarthenshire	18,716	117.8	11,092	69.8	+5.0%
11	Liverpool	59,250	140.0	29,156	68.9	+6.1%
12	Hartlepool	11,607	143.1	5,586	68.9	+6.5%
13	Denbighshire	9,738	119.6	5,561	68.3	+4.8%
14	Swansea	24,377	116.8	13,969	66.9	+5.3%
15	Halton	14,330	132.9	7,122	66.0	+6.0%
16	Mansfield	10,345	111.2	6,118	65.7	+4.5%
17	East Lindsey	13,703	108.3	8,108	64.1	+5.4%
18	Bolsover	8,271	117.9	4,445	63.3	+5.9%
19	Middlesbrough	15,497	127.0	7,604	62.3	+5.8%
20	Sunderland	31,644	132.9	14,838	62.3	+5.7%
21	Wirral	33,507	123.1	16,721	61.4	+5.9%
22	Ashfield	11,548	108.1	6,562	61.4	+6.0%
23	Barnsley	25,746	124.2	12,717	61.4	+6.2%
24	Stoke-on-Trent	22,997	105.7	13,170	60.5	+4.8%
25	South Tyneside	16,175	129.8	7,543	60.5	+5.9%
26	St. Helens	19,406	123.6	9,447	60.2	+6.0%
27	Rotherham	26,729	117.8	13,541	59.7	+7.4%
28	County Durham	55,626	123.0	26,970	59.6	+5.6%
29	Newport	14,494	107.3	8,049	59.6	+4.8%
30	Nottingham	28,480	106.4	15,921	59.5	+5.8%
31	Redcar and Cleveland	14,132	122.2	6,818	59.0	+6.5%
32	Pembrokeshire	10,370	98.1	6,194	58.6	+4.9%
33	Wrexham	12,148	106.6	6,672	58.6	+5.6%
34	Walsall	24,267	104.1	13,480	57.8	+5.8%
35	Great Yarmouth	9,968	118.5	4,852	57.7	+6.3%
36	Sandwell	28,623	103.7	15,863	57.5	+5.5%
37	Blackburn with Darwen	14,407	113.2	7,271	57.1	+7.2%
38	Conwy	9,785	101.0	5,522	57.0	+5.7%
39	Hyndburn	8,179	117.1	3,948	56.5	+7.4%
40	Sefton	27,361	114.2	13,508	56.4	+6.6%
41	Burnley	9,209	114.2	4,540	56.3	+8.4%
42	Chesterfield	10,119	113.6	5,013	56.3	+5.8%
43	Birmingham	93,196	100.5	51,641	55.7	+5.9%
44	Telford and Wrekin	15,614	97.4	8,871	55.3	+5.5%
45	Thanet	13,348	112.5	6,521	54.9	+8.5%
46	Doncaster	28,733	109.3	14,283	54.3	+7.1%
47	Kingston upon Hull, City of	24,195	110.2	11,908	54.2	+7.6%
48	North East Lincolnshire	14,042	107.2	7,070	54.0	+6.7%
49	Cannock Chase	8,126	94.4	4,630	53.8	+6.6%
50	Wolverhampton	21,381	96.4	11,935	53.8	+5.6%
51	Derby	21,363	96.4	11,901	53.7	+6.6%
52	Tendring	14,036	104.6	7,154	53.3	+8.9%
53	Bradford	46,520	106.8	23,153	53.2	+7.8%
54	Hastings	8,218	108.8	3,999	53.0	+7.4%
55	Nuneaton and Bedworth	10,674	91.9	6,098	52.5	+7.3%
56	Torbay	12,114	102.3	6,216	52.5	+5.4%
57	Rochdale	20,086	107.6	9,770	52.3	+7.4%
58	Isle of Anglesey	5,492	95.5	3,010	52.3	+6.0%
59	Gateshead	18,534	110.6	8,749	52.2	+5.9%
60	Flintshire	12,143	93.7	6,743	52.0	+5.6%
61	Tameside	20,488	105.3	9,964	51.2	+6.7%
62	Oldham	20,686	105.5	10,027	51.2	+7.4%
63	Vale of Glamorgan	10,075	90.5	5,665	50.9	+5.3%
64	Stockton-on-Tees	17,500	104.1	8,543	50.8	+7.5%
65	Wakefield	30,987	102.8	15,244	50.6	+6.1%
66	Wigan	29,048	102.3	14,309	50.4	+6.8%
67	Fenland	7,528	85.8	4,404	50.2	+6.8%
68	Manchester	48,725	102.2	23,919	50.2	+6.7%
69	Lincoln	7,705	88.5	4,351	50.0	+4.7%
70	Cardiff	28,426	89.7	15,788	49.8	+5.1%
71	Newark and Sherwood	8,882	83.0	5,248	49.0	+6.1%
72	Plymouth	22,908	101.1	11,106	49.0	+5.1%
73	Boston	5,171	87.8	2,877	48.8	+7.1%
74	Salford	24,675	102.3	11,730	48.6	+8.0%
75	Pendle	7,900	99.5	3,840	48.4	+9.1%
76	Coventry	24,845	84.5	14,092	47.9	+7.0%
77	Dudley	23,550	87.0	12,981	47.9	+6.0%
78	Tamworth	5,689	85.5	3,189	47.9	+6.2%
79	Erewash	8,260	87.2	4,532	47.8	+6.0%
80	Folkestone and Hythe	8,916	94.8	4,496	47.8	+5.9%
81	Swale	12,570	97.1	6,187	47.8	+9.9%
82	Bolton	24,226	99.2	11,660	47.8	+6.3%
83	Dover	9,499	94.5	4,795	47.7	+7.5%
84	Peterborough	14,702	84.0	8,334	47.6	+6.4%
85	North Tyneside	17,290	96.8	8,464	47.4	+6.2%
86	North Lincolnshire	12,997	91.8	6,698	47.3	+6.8%
87	Wyre	9,444	92.2	4,845	47.3	+7.6%
88	Amber Valley	9,426	85.6	5,182	47.1	+6.4%
89	Wyre Forest	7,377	84.4	4,108	47.0	+6.5%
90	West Lindsey	7,088	85.0	3,919	47.0	+7.1%
91	Leicester	25,323	82.5	14,381	46.9	+5.5%
92	Sheffield	45,688	95.3	22,455	46.9	+6.6%
93	North East Derbyshire	8,302	92.2	4,214	46.8	+6.3%
94	Redditch	5,794	81.3	3,309	46.4	+5.9%
95	Preston	12,493	94.6	6,127	46.4	+6.7%
96	Bassetlaw	9,732	93.1	4,841	46.3	+6.5%
97	Enfield	22,758	86.9	12,079	46.1	+11.1%
98	Powys	9,281	80.9	5,289	46.1	+5.8%
99	North Warwickshire	4,527	80.9	2,577	46.1	+9.4%
100	Ceredigion	5,014	79.8	2,882	45.9	+5.2%
101	Newcastle-under-Lyme	8,719	81.0	4,917	45.7	+4.8%
102	Isle of Wight	11,143	92.2	5,496	45.5	+7.2%
103	Northumberland	25,600	90.6	12,716	45.0	+6.5%
104	Newcastle upon Tyne	24,816	92.7	12,032	45.0	+6.3%
105	Darlington	8,702	93.1	4,201	44.9	+5.8%
106	Calderdale	16,025	93.3	7,692	44.8	+7.6%
107	Kirklees	32,495	90.4	16,074	44.7	+5.7%
108	Gedling	7,849	78.4	4,466	44.6	+7.0%
109	Rossendale	5,473	91.1	2,667	44.4	+6.9%
110	West Lancashire	8,925	86.1	4,601	44.4	+6.7%
111	Bury	14,512	90.6	7,072	44.1	+6.7%
112	Solihull	13,569	76.0	7,812	43.8	+7.5%
113	Cumberland	21,359	90.3	10,351	43.8	+4.7%
114	Ipswich	9,997	89.4	4,867	43.5	+5.1%
115	South Holland	6,262	74.7	3,596	42.9	+7.8%
116	Gwynedd	7,909	77.6	4,362	42.8	+6.0%
117	King’s Lynn and West Norfolk	9,904	75.2	5,634	42.8	+5.3%
118	Medway	19,730	84.8	9,853	42.4	+9.3%
119	Islington	17,031	87.7	8,182	42.1	+7.8%
120	North Northamptonshire	23,161	75.4	12,864	41.9	+7.2%
121	Eastbourne	7,491	85.7	3,643	41.7	+6.0%
122	Monmouthshire	5,921	73.4	3,348	41.5	+4.8%
123	Cornwall	39,874	80.8	20,459	41.5	+6.9%
124	Warrington	14,668	82.8	7,322	41.3	+6.4%
125	Norwich	11,102	89.9	5,077	41.1	+6.6%
126	Hackney	18,807	85.5	8,981	40.8	+7.6%
127	North Kesteven	7,089	68.7	4,179	40.5	+7.6%
128	South Derbyshire	7,020	72.2	3,941	40.5	+7.9%
129	Broxtowe	6,765	70.8	3,828	40.1	+6.4%
130	Chorley	7,791	77.3	4,034	40.0	+6.7%
131	Barking and Dagenham	14,517	80.4	7,207	39.9	+10.1%
132	Lancaster	10,253	83.9	4,879	39.9	+6.5%
133	Cheshire West and Chester	24,547	78.7	12,411	39.8	+6.8%
134	Haringey	17,784	80.4	8,792	39.8	+9.8%
135	Worcester	6,122	68.8	3,528	39.6	+5.4%
136	Basildon	12,258	79.9	6,077	39.6	+9.0%
137	Stevenage	5,795	78.6	2,915	39.5	+7.4%
138	East Staffordshire	7,425	69.5	4,211	39.4	+7.1%
139	East Suffolk	16,843	79.3	8,341	39.3	+6.8%
140	Torridge	4,537	75.7	2,346	39.2	+8.6%
141	South Staffordshire	6,504	67.1	3,782	39.0	+7.0%
142	Harlow	6,222	80.6	3,012	39.0	+8.2%
143	Canterbury	10,554	77.1	5,332	39.0	+9.5%
144	South Ribble	7,378	75.6	3,797	38.9	+7.2%
145	Gloucester	8,697	77.2	4,378	38.9	+6.6%
146	Staffordshire Moorlands	5,496	66.9	3,190	38.8	+5.1%
147	Leeds	54,771	79.6	26,705	38.8	+7.4%
148	Gosport	5,539	80.7	2,664	38.8	+5.7%
149	Southend-on-Sea	12,427	82.4	5,850	38.8	+9.4%
150	Fylde	5,703	76.7	2,879	38.7	+8.1%
151	Havant	8,305	78.6	4,066	38.5	+6.9%
152	Gravesham	6,831	77.8	3,341	38.0	+8.6%
153	Stafford	7,814	65.5	4,514	37.8	+6.1%
154	Southampton	16,847	77.9	8,160	37.7	+7.5%
155	Lewisham	19,104	77.0	9,348	37.7	+9.6%
156	Camden	14,181	75.4	7,036	37.4	+6.9%
157	High Peak	5,854	76.0	2,872	37.3	+6.9%
158	Shropshire	17,831	63.2	10,516	37.3	+5.4%
159	Stockport	19,122	77.1	9,240	37.3	+7.4%
160	North Norfolk	6,534	72.1	3,366	37.1	+6.9%
161	Bristol, City of	31,116	74.7	15,453	37.1	+5.8%
162	Rother	5,990	72.8	3,048	37.0	+8.7%
163	Oadby and Wigston	3,293	66.0	1,845	37.0	+7.3%
164	South Kesteven	7,889	64.2	4,547	37.0	+7.4%
165	Hinckley and Bosworth	6,322	64.4	3,630	37.0	+7.4%
166	Herefordshire, County of	10,470	64.3	6,014	37.0	+4.6%
167	Greenwich	18,228	74.1	9,080	36.9	+8.4%
168	North West Leicestershire	6,035	64.5	3,442	36.8	+8.1%
169	Broxbourne	6,032	72.8	3,038	36.7	+10.0%
170	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	24,480	71.6	12,532	36.7	+6.3%
171	Forest of Dean	5,190	68.3	2,783	36.6	+6.3%
172	North Devon	6,181	72.7	3,093	36.4	+8.5%
173	Brighton and Hove	18,348	74.8	8,907	36.3	+7.3%
174	Luton	13,586	74.1	6,647	36.3	+8.8%
175	Breckland	8,762	70.5	4,502	36.2	+7.1%
176	Portsmouth	13,300	76.1	6,322	36.2	+7.1%
177	North Somerset	13,243	70.3	6,797	36.1	+7.2%
178	Teignbridge	8,287	70.5	4,234	36.0	+7.8%
179	Brent	19,899	68.8	10,394	35.9	+11.0%
180	Lichfield	5,952	62.9	3,388	35.8	+7.8%
181	Westminster	12,566	66.8	6,704	35.6	+8.0%
182	Trafford	13,673	71.4	6,697	35.0	+6.4%
183	Wychavon	6,887	58.8	4,077	34.8	+8.1%
184	Thurrock	10,076	71.2	4,893	34.6	+9.7%
185	Ashford	7,901	68.6	3,975	34.5	+9.4%
186	Bromsgrove	5,074	60.5	2,891	34.5	+6.6%
187	Croydon	22,639	68.8	11,350	34.5	+9.5%
188	Lewes	6,030	69.9	2,966	34.4	+8.7%
189	Rugby	6,006	59.4	3,449	34.1	+8.8%
190	West Northamptonshire	21,794	60.5	12,278	34.1	+6.9%
191	Southwark	18,512	69.5	9,062	34.0	+8.8%
192	Malvern Hills	4,293	59.9	2,439	34.0	+7.2%
193	Somerset	32,994	66.8	16,762	33.9	+6.8%
194	Milton Keynes	16,077	65.8	8,222	33.7	+9.1%
195	Charnwood	9,483	59.8	5,338	33.6	+6.7%
196	Waltham Forest	15,533	67.5	7,734	33.6	+9.3%
197	Colchester	11,084	67.9	5,468	33.5	+9.3%
198	Tower Hamlets	19,974	71.1	9,384	33.4	+10.4%
199	Castle Point	5,175	69.0	2,500	33.3	+8.4%
200	Dorset	21,859	65.4	11,115	33.2	+6.5%
201	Worthing	6,221	65.0	3,163	33.0	+6.7%
202	Bedford	10,630	67.4	5,207	33.0	+10.3%
203	Newham	19,988	65.3	10,095	33.0	+10.1%
204	Swindon	13,095	66.1	6,491	32.8	+8.3%
205	Mid Devon	4,582	64.3	2,330	32.7	+8.5%
206	Hertsmere	5,522	62.2	2,903	32.7	+8.9%
207	East Riding of Yorkshire	19,390	63.5	9,949	32.6	+8.9%
208	Crawley	6,497	65.7	3,218	32.5	+7.3%
209	Adur	3,678	68.8	1,740	32.5	+7.7%
210	Exeter	7,862	66.2	3,858	32.5	+6.1%
211	Lambeth	18,502	68.2	8,816	32.5	+8.7%
212	Braintree	8,720	63.9	4,431	32.5	+11.5%
213	Blaby	5,034	56.6	2,868	32.3	+5.6%
214	Cheshire East	22,333	63.4	11,367	32.3	+8.1%
215	Arun	9,581	65.3	4,728	32.2	+9.6%
216	West Devon	3,179	62.8	1,626	32.1	+5.3%
217	Westmorland and Furness	12,676	64.1	6,337	32.0	+5.3%
218	Melton	2,539	55.8	1,446	31.8	+8.8%
219	South Hams	4,666	59.2	2,486	31.6	+7.0%
220	Barnet	19,529	59.6	10,299	31.5	+10.9%
221	Bexley	13,044	63.2	6,490	31.4	+8.3%
222	Dartford	6,120	62.5	3,043	31.1	+10.1%
223	Broadland	6,900	58.7	3,635	30.9	+9.1%
224	Huntingdonshire	8,420	53.3	4,866	30.8	+6.5%
225	Welwyn Hatfield	6,162	61.9	3,058	30.7	+7.5%
226	Maidstone	9,633	62.4	4,698	30.4	+9.7%
227	South Gloucestershire	15,003	59.1	7,716	30.4	+7.3%
228	Havering	13,832	61.8	6,787	30.3	+9.8%
229	South Norfolk	7,348	59.0	3,777	30.3	+9.1%
230	Derbyshire Dales	3,392	54.6	1,872	30.2	+5.2%
231	North Yorkshire	31,950	59.2	16,218	30.0	+7.6%
232	Redbridge	14,812	58.0	7,668	30.0	+10.0%
233	Hillingdon	15,092	57.5	7,871	30.0	+10.2%
234	Hounslow	14,243	58.7	7,284	30.0	+10.5%
235	Hammersmith and Fulham	9,825	60.2	4,839	29.7	+9.9%
236	New Forest	8,461	56.3	4,411	29.4	+6.6%
237	Sutton	9,706	57.0	4,990	29.3	+9.0%
238	West Suffolk	9,110	58.5	4,552	29.2	+8.7%
239	Maldon	3,500	59.3	1,724	29.2	+10.2%
240	Tonbridge and Malling	6,514	58.8	3,236	29.2	+10.8%
241	Tewkesbury	4,732	56.1	2,458	29.2	+10.9%
242	Slough	7,337	57.6	3,705	29.1	+8.3%
243	Dacorum	7,555	58.1	3,770	29.0	+8.8%
244	Mid Suffolk	5,350	56.2	2,722	28.6	+9.4%
245	Spelthorne	4,914	56.6	2,470	28.5	+10.6%
246	Ealing	18,142	57.0	9,048	28.4	+11.1%
247	Wiltshire	24,402	55.9	12,369	28.3	+7.9%
248	Epping Forest	6,409	56.7	3,200	28.3	+9.2%
249	Watford	4,900	57.3	2,416	28.3	+8.1%
250	East Cambridgeshire	4,136	53.2	2,186	28.1	+8.2%
251	Stratford-on-Avon	5,937	47.6	3,505	28.1	+9.0%
252	Rushcliffe	5,044	48.0	2,952	28.1	+7.8%
253	Warwick	6,311	48.2	3,654	27.9	+7.6%
254	Kensington and Chelsea	7,166	56.4	3,525	27.7	+7.6%
255	East Devon	7,351	54.4	3,736	27.6	+7.4%
256	Babergh	4,453	54.1	2,262	27.5	+8.4%
257	Bromley	14,801	54.4	7,446	27.4	+9.4%
258	Bath and North East Somerset	9,175	54.1	4,592	27.1	+6.2%
259	Eastleigh	6,255	53.5	3,151	26.9	+7.8%
260	Sevenoaks	5,280	53.1	2,671	26.9	+10.0%
261	Central Bedfordshire	13,872	53.7	6,929	26.8	+9.6%
262	Test Valley	5,799	52.0	2,972	26.6	+8.8%
263	Rochford	4,057	54.3	1,987	26.6	+10.2%
264	Chelmsford	8,350	54.0	4,109	26.5	+9.8%
265	Stroud	5,535	52.7	2,772	26.4	+7.7%
266	Tandridge	3,496	47.7	1,914	26.1	+9.7%
267	North Hertfordshire	5,930	53.0	2,920	26.1	+7.5%
268	Wealden	7,179	51.0	3,667	26.0	+10.4%
269	Harborough	3,993	45.3	2,292	26.0	+7.4%
270	Harrow	10,934	49.4	5,724	25.9	+10.6%
271	Tunbridge Wells	4,810	49.8	2,486	25.8	+7.9%
272	Basingstoke and Deane	8,180	51.9	4,032	25.6	+8.1%
273	Cherwell	7,149	51.0	3,567	25.4	+7.6%
274	Chichester	5,427	49.2	2,808	25.4	+8.2%
275	Reading	7,775	51.6	3,823	25.4	+8.5%
276	Cheltenham	5,036	49.8	2,562	25.4	+5.8%
277	Reigate and Banstead	6,028	47.0	3,224	25.1	+8.5%
278	Three Rivers	3,773	48.6	1,947	25.1	+7.3%
279	Rushmoor	4,427	51.1	2,130	24.6	+8.9%
280	Rutland	1,489	42.1	864	24.4	+4.9%
281	York	8,713	48.5	4,390	24.4	+7.8%
282	Merton	8,736	48.8	4,367	24.4	+9.9%
283	South Cambridgeshire	6,325	44.9	3,421	24.3	+9.0%
284	Ribble Valley	2,669	47.4	1,362	24.2	+8.1%
285	Fareham	4,618	47.5	2,343	24.1	+9.1%
286	Wandsworth	13,869	48.0	6,782	23.5	+8.3%
287	Bracknell Forest	4,890	45.8	2,455	23.0	+10.1%
288	Brentwood	3,043	46.8	1,486	22.9	+8.1%
289	Runnymede	3,439	44.5	1,765	22.9	+10.9%
290	West Berkshire	6,158	45.5	3,061	22.6	+8.6%
291	Winchester	5,123	45.5	2,534	22.5	+7.9%
292	Woking	3,688	43.0	1,924	22.4	+11.0%
293	Kingston upon Thames	6,159	43.6	3,155	22.3	+9.1%
294	Buckinghamshire	20,150	42.9	10,450	22.3	+9.6%
295	Mole Valley	3,157	42.7	1,640	22.2	+9.1%
296	Uttlesford	3,284	41.8	1,719	21.9	+12.5%
297	Oxford	6,221	43.9	3,078	21.7	+6.6%
298	St Albans	5,084	42.4	2,576	21.5	+7.2%
299	Epsom and Ewell	2,730	40.8	1,430	21.4	+9.1%
300	East Hampshire	4,404	40.6	2,317	21.4	+9.6%
301	Horsham	5,211	41.6	2,673	21.3	+8.0%
302	Cotswold	3,186	41.2	1,649	21.3	+7.2%
303	Mid Sussex	5,509	41.6	2,808	21.2	+9.7%
304	East Hertfordshire	5,501	43.0	2,694	21.0	+9.0%
305	West Oxfordshire	4,184	41.7	2,088	20.8	+6.8%
306	Vale of White Horse	5,098	41.4	2,547	20.7	+9.5%
307	Cambridge	5,347	41.3	2,627	20.3	+6.0%
308	Surrey Heath	2,970	38.1	1,559	20.0	+7.4%
309	Richmond upon Thames	6,285	39.5	3,168	19.9	+8.9%
310	Windsor and Maidenhead	4,793	36.8	2,531	19.4	+9.9%
311	Guildford	4,781	37.7	2,427	19.1	+7.9%
312	Elmbridge	4,072	36.0	2,156	19.0	+8.9%
313	Waverley	3,895	34.8	2,071	18.5	+8.8%
314	Wokingham	5,133	34.1	2,761	18.4	+10.6%
315	South Oxfordshire	4,663	35.9	2,314	17.8	+9.4%
316	Hart	2,920	34.6	1,463	17.3	+11.2%
317	Isles of Scilly	46	23.2	22	11.1	+21.1%
318	City of London	240	15.9	120	8.0	+3.9%

All 318 local authorities in England and Wales, ranked by enhanced mobility awards per 1,000 adults aged 16 and over. PIP claims are cases with entitlement at April 2026. Source: DWP Stat-Xplore and ONS population estimates, analysis by Review Mobility.

Why the gap exists

PIP is assessed on how a health condition or disability affects daily living and getting around. It is paid to people of working age, and awards made before state pension age can continue beyond it. A local claim rate therefore reflects the area’s underlying health, its age profile within working age, its industrial history and how many disabled people move to or remain in the area, and the census has long shown the same geography for self-reported disability. The Department for Work and Pensions notes that assessment capacity, and therefore waiting times, also varies between regions.

What the figures do measure precisely is entitlement. Every claim in the table is one that DWP has assessed and awarded under a single national test. The five-fold difference between Blaenau Gwent and Wokingham is what that national test produces when it is applied to two very different populations.

What happens next for PIP

The system behind these figures is under review. The Timms Review of PIP, the first co-produced review of the benefit, published its interim report on 15 July 2026 and is due to publish its final recommendations in autumn 2026. Since April 2026 most new awards to claimants aged 25 or over run for four years with a review after three. The award rate for new claims has also been falling: 37% of new claim clearances in the quarter to April 2026 resulted in an award, down from 43% a year earlier, even as registrations rose 15%. Whatever the review recommends, the geography in this table will shape who feels it.

In Scotland, PIP has been replaced by the Adult Disability Payment, administered by Social Security Scotland, which is why this analysis covers England and Wales only.

Methodology and sources

Claim counts are PIP cases with entitlement at April 2026 and April 2025, by mobility award status and local authority of residence, extracted from the DWP’s Stat-Xplore service (dataset: PIP Cases with Entitlement from 2019) on 21 August 2026. Figures cover claims under DWP policy ownership in England and Wales. Claims held by residents of Scotland, people abroad and a small number of claims with unknown addresses are excluded. DWP applies statistical disclosure control to these figures, so components may not sum exactly to totals; values shown are as published. Suppressed values below five were treated as zero, which affects only the small “unknown or missing” category.

Rates per 1,000 adults use Office for National Statistics mid-2025 population estimates for people aged 16 and over, the latest available, on April 2023 local authority boundaries. PIP is claimed by people aged 16 to state pension age, and awards can continue beyond it, so the all-adult denominator was chosen as the most conservative like-for-like base across areas with different age profiles. National caseload figures and award rate trends are from the DWP release, Personal Independence Payment statistics to April 2026, published 16 June 2026. Weekly payment rates are from GOV.UK. Motability eligibility is as stated by Motability Operations.

Source data: DWP Stat-Xplore and GOV.UK content contain public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Population estimates: Source: Office for National Statistics. Review Mobility’s selection, structure and presentation of the data, including the league table and CSV file, are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0). Please credit Review Mobility with a link to this page.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people claim PIP in England and Wales?

There were 4,002,799 PIP claims with entitlement in England and Wales at 30 April 2026, according to DWP records. Of these, 2,063,290 included the enhanced mobility rate and 1,163,107 the standard mobility rate.

Which area has the highest PIP claim rate?

Blaenau Gwent in south Wales has the highest rate, with 164 PIP claims per 1,000 adults aged 16 and over at April 2026, about one adult in six. Merthyr Tydfil and Knowsley are next. The lowest rate for a normal-sized council area is Wokingham in Berkshire, at 34 per 1,000.

How much is the PIP mobility component in 2026/27?

The mobility part of PIP pays £30.30 a week at the standard rate and £80.00 a week at the enhanced rate in 2026/27. The enhanced rate is worth £4,160 a year, tax free.

Does standard rate PIP mobility qualify for the Motability scheme?

No. Motability only accepts the enhanced (higher) rate of the PIP mobility component, with at least 12 months remaining on the award. Standard rate recipients cannot join the scheme and usually buy mobility equipment privately.

Why are PIP claim rates so much higher in Wales?

Wales has 111 claims per 1,000 adults against England’s 77. The highest Welsh rates are concentrated in the former mining valleys, which have among the highest levels of long-term ill health and disability recorded in the census, older working-age populations and a legacy of heavy industry. PIP entitlement is assessed under one national test, so the difference reflects the populations, and DWP notes that regional assessment capacity also varies.

How fast is the PIP caseload growing?

The England and Wales caseload grew 7.2% in the year to April 2026, and enhanced mobility awards grew 7.9%. Growth was fastest in London and the southern commuter belt, at 11% or more in Uttlesford, Braintree, Hart, Enfield, Ealing, Woking and Brent, and slowest, around 4%, in the south Wales valleys.

What about Scotland?

PIP is being replaced in Scotland by the Adult Disability Payment, administered by Social Security Scotland, and Scottish cases are outside DWP policy ownership. Scottish figures are therefore excluded from this league table.

Where does this data come from?

Claim counts come from the DWP’s Stat-Xplore service (PIP Cases with Entitlement, April 2025 and April 2026). Population denominators are ONS mid-2025 estimates for adults aged 16 and over. The full dataset is available from this page as a CSV file under a CC BY 4.0 licence for the compilation.

Cite this research

Review Mobility (2026), “One in 11 adults in Blaenau Gwent now get PIP’s enhanced mobility rate: the local league table”, https://reviewmobility.co.uk/funding-grants/pip-mobility-league-table/. Underlying data: DWP Stat-Xplore and ONS, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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