The English Housing Survey Household Report 2010-11 and English Housing Survey Homes Report 2010 have been published by Communities & Local Government. The key findings and reports are available below.
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The English Housing Survey began in April 2008 bringing together two former DCLG housing surveys – the English House Condition Survey and the Survey of English Housing.
English Housing Survey: Household Report 2010-11
This is the detailed report of findings from the survey relating to households, and builds on results reported in the English Housing Survey Headline Report published in February 2012.
The report includes the following findings:
- The largest tenure type in 2010-11 was owner occupation, with 14.45 million households (66 per cent). This continued a slight downward trend from a peak of 14.79 million households in owner occupation (71 per cent) in 2005. The private rented sector continued to increase in size, to 3.62 million households (17 per cent).
- Owner occupiers buying with a mortgage made average weekly mortgage payments of £143. This compared to average weekly rent payments of £160 made by privately renting households, and £79 by social renters.
- 59 per cent of private renters and 23 per cent of social renters said they expected to buy a home in the UK, at some point. Of these, 16 per cent had considered applying for a mortgage in the last 12 months. Recent first time buyers were 6 per cent of owner occupiers.
- There were two million recently moving households in 2010-11, compared to 1.8 million in 2009-10. Of these, 62 per cent were private renters, 22 per cent were owner occupiers and 16 per cent were social renters.
- Households living in poverty were more likely to live in homes that had significant outstanding repairs and damp problems than households who were not living in poverty.
- The majority of households were satisfied with their local areas and their accommodation. However, although the majority of people felt their areas had not changed much over the previous two years, across all tenures, they were more likely to say their local area had got worse than better.
‘English Housing Survey 2010-11 Household Report’ PDF is available here.
The Excel files of the annex tables, and the tables and figures for each chapter are available here.
English Housing Survey: Homes Report 2010
This is the detailed report of findings relating to the housing stock from the survey, and builds on results reported in the English Housing Survey Headline Report published in February 2012.
The report includes the following findings:
- In 2010, there were 22.4 million dwellings in England. Some 66 per cent of these were owner occupied and the rest were rented, split fairly evenly between the private rented sector (17 per cent) and social rented sector (17 per cent). There were slightly more housing association dwellings (2 million) than local authority dwellings (1.8 million).
- Some 52% of the private rented stock was built before 1945 including 40 per cent built before 1919. Also, 15 per cent of private rented homes were converted flats.
- The total cost of dealing with basic disrepair (day to day maintenance) within the stock was around £31.8 billion at 2010 prices and the average cost of this type of disrepair was £1,418 per dwelling.
- The proportion of dwellings with damp problems fell from 10 per cent in 2001 to 7 per cent in 2010. This was mainly due to a fall in the incidence of problems caused by penetrating damp.
- The average energy efficiency rating for the whole stock (using SAP09) has increased from 45 in 1996 to 55 in 2010.
- The average SAP rating in the social sector in 2010 was around eight points higher than either owner occupied or private rented homes (62 compared with 54).
‘English Housing Survey – Homes Report 201’ PDF is available here.
The Excel files of the annex tables, and the tables and figures for each chapter are available here.
Further Information.
- ‘English Housing Survey Bulletin: Issue 7 ‘ PDF is available here. This bulletin presents key findings from the English Housing Survey Household Report 2010-11 and English Housing Survey Homes Report 2010.
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