Official Statistics

Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014 to 2022

Annual statistics on the number and proportion of children living in low income families.

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Tables: Children in low income families: local area statistics: 2014 to 2022

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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the Children in low income families: local area statistics collection.

For both Relative and Absolute measures, before housing costs, these annual statistics include counts of children by:

  • geography – including by:
    • local authority
    • Westminster parliamentary constituency
    • ward
    • Middle Super Output Area
  • year (2014 to 2022)
  • age of child
  • gender of child
  • family type
  • work status of the family

More detailed breakdowns of the statistics can be found on Stat-Xplore.

For more information, read the background information and methodology.

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Updates to this page

Published 23 March 2023
Last updated 23 March 2023 + show all updates
  1. Published a revised version of the data tables – corrected the FYE 2022 child poverty rates in tables 5 and 6 for a number of parliamentary constituencies in Scotland.

  2. First published.

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