# The claimant rate by borough

> Universal Credit and JSA claimants as a share of residents aged 16 to 64.

- Category: People
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `claimant-rate-by-borough`
- Source: [Nomis / Office for National Statistics](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/ucjsa)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/claimant-rate-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/g/claimant-rate-by-borough)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/claimant-rate-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/data/claimant-rate-by-borough)

## Methodology

Latest Nomis UCJSA claimant-count proportion for all genders aged 16+, with a sixty-month source window retained by ingestion. This administrative count is not the same as survey unemployment.

## Visualisations

- [Latest ranking](https://londongraph.com/g/claimant-rate-by-borough): Compare the latest claimant rate across London boroughs.
- [Borough history](https://londongraph.com/g/claimant-rate-by-borough?view=history): Follow every borough across the retained 60-month history.
- [Rank change](https://londongraph.com/g/claimant-rate-by-borough?view=rank-change): Compare borough rank in the first and latest retained month.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/claimant-rate-by-borough?view=distribution): Show latest borough rates around the median and quartiles.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.