Unitaries with a population more than 350,000 tend to spend more per resident on services but are also more likely to run into financial difficulties, research has shown.
According to the analysis by the District Councils' Network (DCN), levels of deprivation were most likely to determine how much a council spends on services, and any correlation between population size and the sum spent for each resident was weak.
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