The country's highest proportion of benefit dependency is in the Manchester Central constituency, where almost half of children are living in such households.
Other areas with a density of unemployed families include Liverpool, Glasgow and the London boroughs of Islington and Tower Hamlets.
The new statistics show that the UK has one of the highest proportions of workless households in Europe and suggest that the Government's anti-poverty strategy is stalling.
Chris Grayling, the shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, described the figures as 'a shocking indictment of the Government's failure to tackle child poverty'.
However, the Government says there are now 450,000 fewer children living in workless households than a decade ago, and that the rate is falling more quickly than in any other European country.
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