London’s Poverty Profile
Benefits & welfare reform Demography Education Health Homelessness Housing Inequality Low income Low pay Work & Worklessness
Children Disabled People Ethnicity Migrants Pensioners Women Working-age adults Young adults
Borough Overview Barking & Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden City of London Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

Disabled People

Key findings

34%

of people with a disabled adult in the household are in poverty in London, compared with 25% of people without a disabled adult in the household.

37%

of disabled people compared with 27% of non-disabled people.

70%

of pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in London do not achieve A* – C in English and maths GCSEs, with an attainment gap of 44 percentage points between pupils with SEN and those without.

Disabled People: indicators

Data

Out-of-work benefits

Data

Benefit sanctions

Data

GCSE attainment and demography

Data

Low pay by disability

Data

Disability and poverty

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