Official statistical benchmark · ONS Family Spending gross income deciles · Year ending March 2025
Where does our household income sit?
UK households ranked by gross income and cut into ten equal groups. Your household’s gross pay plus Child Benefit is placed against the published boundaries. Gross and unadjusted for household size, so this is a position in the income distribution, not a measure of living standards or poverty.
1 adult, 0 children, Derry City And Strabane, renting · gross £35,000 a year, £673 a week
Decile 4 of 10
Fourth decile group: higher than roughly 30% of UK households, lower than roughly 60%
Households in this tenth had a mean gross income of £697 a week and a median of £698 a week in Year ending March 2025. Income here is what you typed; the boundaries are the ONS’s.
The boundaries
| Decile group | Lower boundary, £ a week | Mean, £ a week | Median, £ a week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest ten per cent | — | £210 | £231 |
| Second decile group | £304 | £391 | £392 |
| Third decile group | £471 | £544 | £547 |
| Fourth decile group | £620 | £697 | £698 |
| Fifth decile group | £772 | £858 | £859 |
| Sixth decile group | £940 | £1,026 | £1,024 |
| Seventh decile group | £1,122 | £1,235 | £1,231 |
| Eighth decile group | £1,359 | £1,500 | £1,493 |
| Ninth decile group | £1,669 | £1,930 | £1,913 |
| Highest ten per cent | £2,280 | £3,535 | £2,936 |
Gross weekly household income, all sources before tax, unequivalised, ONS Living Costs and Food Survey, Year ending March 2025, released 11 June 2026. Official poverty measures (DWP Households below average income) use equivalised disposable income and are a separate, planned page.