Homelessness in Scotland This publication gives an overview of key trends and features of homelessness in Scotland. It provides information on homelessness applications, assessments and outcomes to 31 March 2017. Data on households in temporary accommodation as at 31 March 2017 are also presented, together with data on households placed in unsuitable accommodation. Source: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/06/8907/downloads UK House Price Index 2004-2017 Describes various types of housing published between 2004-2017 and their price indices. Area codes included and percentage price change are also included. This file includes a derived back series for the new UK HPI Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/uk-house-price-index-data-downloads-december-2017?utm_medium=GOV.UK&utm_source=scotland&utm_campaign=UKHPI_Scotlandreport&utm_term=9.30_13_02_18&utm_content=download_data Youth Homelessness Analysis 2016-17 Data focusing on populations between 16-24 years of age, covering the periods between 2007/2008 and 2016/2017 and defined by locality. Data includes age at application, rate of youth homelessness, household compositions and other descriptors of the population. http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/RefTables/adhoc-analysis/adhoc-analysis

Summary figures of 1) all homelessness applications to local authorities each financial year in Scotland, 2) the total number of these assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness.

In the 2022/23 reporting year, there were 29,652 open homelessness cases in Scotland, which was the highest during the provided time period.

As of the third quarter of 2022, 22,891 of the 27,838 homelessness applications made in Scotland were assessed as being homeless. By comparison, throughout 2021, there were 28,962 homelessness cases in Scotland, out of over 35,000 applications.

There were approximately 1,329 people that reported rough sleeping prior to applying for homelessness assistance in Scotland in 2021, compared with 1,605 in 2020, and 1,700 in 2019.

The data was extracted into a CSV file from the Homelessness Services Resource Directory which can be found here. Homelessness is a broader issue as it encompasses lots of factors ranging from accommodation needs of an individual, health issues, money and legal advice, employment and so on. These issues are all addressed in a holistic and integrated way to prevent homelessness occurring. The data here is designed to empower people to gain employment while giving them the skills, attitude and confidence to gain and maintain employment in the long run. It also includes a range of support services people faced with unemployment would benefit from. The services listed include Jobcentres, Skills Development Scotland and Specialist Homeless and Employability Services. Their respective contact details (name, address, telephone number, type of service, email address) and detailed service each organization covers are also included in the dataset. Data uploaded 2014-07-11T09:59:56 Data supplied by Glasgow City Council Licence: None job-centre.json - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/de0f1bfc-ed16-429a-b03c-6a63a178efb1/Dataset/db5b4913-6ac9-46ad-9e8d-512f0101fbe9/File/0acae914-262b-4701-8aff-92cc3c95cf26/Version/672427ac-7d44-462e-9cec-3e0bbd56b5c5

Correction 20 January 2023 - An error was found in the population data used to calculate 2021 rates in this publication. This has been corrected, with the overall Scotland mortality rate for 2021 changing from 60.4 deaths per million population to 60.3 deaths per million. There were small changes to the rates for council areas also. Homeless deaths for the year 2021.