Introduction
This report provides local area information about children in the North East who live in families in relative poverty. Such families have household income below 60% of the UK median. The report is presented in sections:
- After housing costs (AHC) statistics, produced by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, based on a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dataset sourced from administrative tax and benefit records.
- Before housing costs (BHC) statistics, the DWP analysis of the same dataset
- Additional child poverty data for the wider North East ITL1 region (which also includes Tees Valley), from the survey-based Households Below Average Income (HBAI) dataset
- Additional insights into the characteristics and geography of children in BHC poverty based on DWP data from the Stat-Xplore tool.
Rates in this report are shown to the nearest 0.1%. The latest year that statistics are available for is 2023/24 with the next release due in spring 2026. Further information about the data is included in the "About the sources" section.