Take-home pay is one-fifth of the disposable income enjoyed by people in west LondonNottingham is the city with the lowest incomes in the UK, where residents’ take-home pay is only one-fifth of the disposable income enjoyed by people in west London. The average household income, once taxes and benefits are taken into account, is only £12,232 in Nottingham, compared to £58,816 in Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham in west London. A few miles east of Hammersmith and Fulham, household disposable incomes plummet by two-thirds to £19,261 in Newham and Hackney. In the north-west, incomes are lowest in Blackburn, at £12,450, little more than half of those in wealthy Cheshire East (£22,025). The Office for National Statistics said that during 2016 “gross disposable household income grew in all regions except the north-east and north-west, which fell by 0.6% and 0.2% respectively.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2018 11:36 UTC