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.
At the end of last year a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report revealed that one in three children in the UK lives in poverty, although half of those are in working families.
Paul Dornan, head of policy and research at the Child Poverty Action Group, said, 'Child poverty is measured in terms of households below a certain level of income, whether the families are in work or not.
'The main message from these figures is that we need to be looking at the barriers which affect parents who are disadvantaged through a variety of reasons, and come up with flexible solutions to help them get into work.'
