The proportion of households occupied by social renters in England from 2000 to 2024 decreased, from a share of 19.5 percent of households in 2000 to a share of 16.4 percent of households in 2024. This is a decrease of almost three percent over the period of 24 years. In 2024, around four million houses were occupied by households socially renting. The largest shares of social rented households in England during the period under observation were 2000 and 2001, when a total of almost 20 percent of all households were recorded as socially rented.

The number of households occupied by social renters in England from 2000 to 2024 fluctuated from a total of 3.95 million households in 2000 to over four million households in 2024. The purpose built, low-rise flat was by far the most popular type of housing in the social sector in England.

Following large transfers of Social Housing stock from the Public Sector over the past twenty years, Housing Associations are now the major provider of social housing in the UK. The largest own thousands of houses but at the other end of the scale are very small organisations such as ancient Almshouse Charities, each owning a cottage or two and overseen by a part time Chairman or a Secretary.

The legal status and ownership of Housing Associations and Trusts is often complex. In some instances, a single management team may manage two or more Housing Associations which are distinct legal entities, for example one Charitable and one non-Charitable.

Housing Associations vary in the scope of their operations. The largest may cater for all types of tenants requiring public housing, whilst many of the smaller ones may cater for specific groups, for example, elderly residents of a certain parish or retired miners. The YMCAs and Foyers provide housing accommodation for single young people whilst the Abbeyfield Societies are voluntary bodies providing sheltered accommodation or nursing homes for the elderly.

How the data is organised:

Parent/Subsidiary Organisations - Housing Associations are regularly merging and renaming themselves. They are often managed in complex groups, with parent and subsidiaries organisations, some sharing their corporate management. Where there is a shared management team across a group, we list these contacts at the group organisation and not against each subsidiary, in order to avoid duplication.

Principal Contact - One person at each Association is identified as the "Chief Officer". In larger organisations this will normally be the Chief Executive or Director. In smaller Associations, it may be the Secretary or occasionally the Chairman, as requested by each organisation.

Job Functions - In addition to the Chief Officers we list a large number of other management posts. Due to the variety of job titles among Associations, we categorise by job function to identify responsibilities.

Units Owned/Managed - As well as recording the organisational structures, we also record the number of "units" each organisation owns/manages. "Units" can be anything from a detached house to a flat or a room or bed space in a nursing home or hostel.

This statistic shows the annual right to buy sales of social housing sold by local authorities in England from 2001/2002 to the third quarter of 2020. Right to buy is a government scheme in England that was set up to support eligible council and housing association tenants with the purchasing of their home, by offering a discount on the price of the property. It can be seen that the number of right to buy sales of social housing sold by local authorities decreased overall during this period, from a total of almost 52 thousand in 2001/2002 to a total of over 10.2 thousand as of 2018/2019. The largest number of right to buy sales occurred in the period 2003/2004, when a total of more than 69.5 thousand sales took place.

Between 2001 and 2023, the stock of dwellings in England (UK) saw an overall increase. As of 2023, the dwelling stock in England amounted to 25.4 million.

Social housing providers offer hosing to people with a low income or in need of extra support. As of February 2025, there were roughly 1,600 social housing providers registered in the United Kingdom (UK), the largest share of which are non-profit (1,284), followed by Local authorities (229) and for-profit companies (78). Non-profit social housing providers are predominantly registered societies and charitable companies.

• The CORE lettings data include information on the characteristics of both private registered providers and local authority new social housing tenants and the homes they rent. For each year, data is structured into four datasets based on type of letting (social rent general needs and supported needs, and affordable rent general needs and supported needs). It is a regulatory requirement for providers registered with the Homes and Communities Agency to supply the data. For those who are not registered, submissions are voluntary. Local authorities have participated in CORE since 2004-5 on a voluntary basis. Weighting is applied to adjust for non-response by local authorities for social rent datasets, and imputation is also carried out to address item-level non-response of key data on tenant characteristics for both local authorities and privately registered providers. The three datasets for affordable rent are not weighted or imputed.
• The CORE sales data include information on sales of local authority dwellings and some summary details on sales of registered provider stock (previously known as Registered Social Landlords or housing associations). Collecting these data allows for a better understanding of the socio-economic and demographic make-up of affordable housing customers and local housing markets and products. The sales dataset is imputed, with more information on the imputations within the data dictionary.

• For the standard End User Licence (EUL) version (SNs 9237 and 9238), the geographic level of the data is set at Government Office Region (GOR). Letting and voiding dates are provided at month and year only; age variables are top-coded at 90 years; income, benefits, earnings, charge and shortfall variables are banded to disguise unique values; landlords are grouped into coded categories.
• For the Special Licence access (SL) version (SNs 9239 and 9240), geographic level is set at Local Authority. The SL data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version.
• For Secure Access (SNs 9241 and 9242), the full CORE datasets are available, with some key variables recoded. Prospective users of the Secure Access version will need to fulfil additional requirements, including completion of face-to-face training and agreement to further stringent access conditions.

SN 9239: Continuous Recording of Social Housing Lettings (CORE): Special Licence Access:

This study contains the SL-level CORE Lettings data only. The SL CORE Sales data are held under SN 9240.

The files below provide the affordable housing statistics for GLA funded programmes. The GLA is committed to open and transparent reporting and will publish statistics relating to housing delivery in London.

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• - Monthly GLA housing starts and completions data by programme, tenure and Local Authority, since April 2009.

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• - Annual Affordable Housing Additional Information by bedroom size by Local Authority:

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  Tables include:

• 1 Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough

• 2 Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough

• 3 Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and programme

• 4 Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and programme

• 5 Rent Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough

• 6 Home Ownership Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough

• 7 Rent Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough

• 8 Home Ownership Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough

• 9 Average Weekly Rents (all programmes) for completed homes by bedroom breakdown by borough

• 10 Affordable Homes Programme: Average weekly rent as % of market rent for homes completed by bedroom breakdown and borough.

This information supplements previous releases of national housing statistics published by the Homes and Communities Agency (external website).

To see future Publication Dates 2014-15 of the affordable Housing Statistics, please click here.

Annual scheme level data

A data set of scheme completions and starts since April 2011 is available. This data set will be updated on an annual basis.

See some of this data represented in charts and maps using Tableau reporting.

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Further to the GLA's scheme of delegations, the Mayor has delegated authority to the Executive Director of Housing and Land to approve engagement with, and allocations to, new and existing housing providers bidding to deliver additional affordable homes in London. The approvals include bids for new schemes in existing programmes and the approval of variations to existing scheme allocations. The Additional Allocations file below lists additional funding approved under this delegation.

AHP Conversions

This report is based on information on conversions provided to the GLA by the Social Housing Regulator, the conversion data is as submitted by providers in their quarterly survey via NROSH+ (a website for all private registered providers except local authority providers to submit their annual data returns required by the Social Housing Regulator).

Median price paid for residential property in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Annual data.

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The COntinuous REcording of Lettings and Sales (CORE) is a national information source that provides annual official statistics on new lettings and sales of social housing stock. All datasets are based on administrative data collected via the government's CORE system.

• The CORE lettings data include information on the characteristics of both private registered providers and local authority new social housing tenants and the homes they rent. For each year, data is structured into four datasets based on type of letting (social rent general needs and supported needs, and affordable rent general needs and supported needs). It is a regulatory requirement for providers registered with the Homes and Communities Agency to supply the data. For those who are not registered, submissions are voluntary. Local authorities have participated in CORE since 2004-5 on a voluntary basis. Weighting is applied to adjust for non-response by local authorities for social rent datasets, and imputation is also carried out to address item-level non-response of key data on tenant characteristics for both local authorities and privately registered providers. The three datasets for affordable rent are not weighted or imputed.
• The CORE sales data include information on sales of local authority dwellings and some summary details on sales of registered provider stock (previously known as Registered Social Landlords or housing associations). Collecting these data allows for a better understanding of the socio-economic and demographic make-up of affordable housing customers and local housing markets and products. The sales dataset is imputed, with more information on the imputations within the data dictionary.

The CORE data are used by central government to inform national housing policy and by local government to inform their Strategic Housing Market Assessments. The data are also used by academics, researchers, charities and the wider public to understand social housing issues. Further information may be found on the GOV.UK Social housing lettings and Social housing sales webpages.
Users should note that the Lettings and Sales data are now held in separate datasets at each access level (see below). Previously, they were held in combined studies, SNs 7603, 7604 and 7686, which have now been withdrawn.
End User Licence, Special Licence and Secure Access datasets The CORE datasets are available at three access levels, depending on the level of detail in the data.

• For the standard End User Licence (EUL) version (SNs 9237 and 9238), the geographic level of the data is set at Government Office Region (GOR). Letting and voiding dates are provided at month and year only; age variables are top-coded at 90 years; income, benefits, earnings, charge and shortfall variables are banded to disguise unique values; landlords are grouped into coded categories.
• For the Special Licence access (SL) version (SNs 9239 and 9240), geographic level is set at Local Authority. The SL data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version.
• For Secure Access (SNs 9241 and 9242), the full CORE datasets are available, with some key variables recoded. Prospective users of the Secure Access version will need to fulfil additional requirements, including completion of face-to-face training and agreement to further stringent access conditions.

SN 9241: Continuous Recording of Social Housing Lettings (CORE): Secure Access:

This study contains the Secure Access version of CORE Lettings data only. The Secure Access CORE Sales data are held under SN 9242.

Main Topics:

The following topics are covered:

• Lettings data: tenant income; tenant benefits; household demographics (including economic status, nationality, etc.); number of affordable or social lettings; reason for requiring social housing; void periods/ number of times offered; rent and other charges; Reasonable Preference Group (including homelessness status); size and type of property.
• Sales data: number of private registered providers of social housing (PRP) sales; type of sale; household demographics; size of property; type of property; tenant income; financial characteristics of sale (mortgage, % discount, equity, etc.); reason for leaving last home; location of new housing; whether served in the Armed Forces.

This annual survey is run by the Homes and Communities Agency and is completed by all Private Registered Providers of social housing in England. It includes data on size and type of home, location, and rents over the year. Additional data for providers with 1,000 homes or more includes further detail on acquisitions, sales and lettings.

Source agency: Communities and Local Government

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: HCA SDR

Local Authorities are required to publish details of all value of social housing that is held in their Housing Revenue Account by the 2014 Transparency Act. The data is published in accordance with legislation and guidance to illustrate the value of Housing Revenue Account dwellings by post code and valuation bandings. The data has been collated in accordance with guidance to prevent individual address being identified. Publication of this information is not intended to suggest that tenancies should end to realise the market value of properties. Additional Information Click the link for more information: http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/your-council-and-democracy/open-data-and-access-information/open-data/data-sets/social-housing-transparency-data

This statistic shows the share of social housing residents who are in a salaried employment in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2014 to 2019, listed by gender. Among male residents, 41 percent were in either full or part time employment whilst 40 percent of female residents were also in full or part-time employment in 2019.