evidence: While the West Midlands and North East now have the highest rate of child poverty across the regions, many of the worst affected local authorities continue to be in London. This is driven by the very high cost of housing in the capital. Tower Hamlets had the highest concentration of child poverty in the UK in 2021/22, with almost half of children living below the poverty line after accounting for housing costs. Child poverty rates are also high in other large cities like Birmingham and Manchester. [...] The wide spread of dots in London, for example, shows that your likelihood of being in poverty depends very much on where you live in the city. The dots in the North East are more concentrated, showing that almost everywhere in that region has similarly high child poverty rates.