About this data
- Spending is divided by each council area's population in mid-2025. (The Welsh Government's own figures per person use mid-2024 populations, and include items left out here, such as housing benefit and debt financing.)
- Figures are councils' day-to-day (revenue) spending on services, after income from sales, fees and charges; spending funded by specific government grants is included. Capital spending, debt financing, council housing (the Housing Revenue Account), housing benefit payments, levies, community council precepts and contingencies are not included.
- Police, and fire and rescue, are run in Wales by separate police and crime commissioners and fire authorities, which aren't included. Councils' spending is net of the levies they pay to fire and national park authorities.
- Figures are put on as similar a basis as possible to England's, but each nation's councils provide different services and are funded differently, and the statistics are collected in different ways, so comparisons between the nations are only rough. In particular, Scottish and Welsh councils fund almost all state schools, while in England most schools are academies, funded directly by central government.
This chart appears in Public spending.