Housing tenure, Census 2021
Households in England and Wales by whether they own or rent their home, Census 2021 (table TS054).
Owned: 61.6% of 24,783,199
15,258,981
Census Day, 21 March 2021
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:20 UTCSource: Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
5 rows
| Category | Households |
|---|---|
| Owned | 15,258,981 |
| Private rented | 5,023,531 |
| Social rented | 4,227,756 |
| Shared ownership | 240,234 |
| Lives rent free | 32,697 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis)
- Check it yourself
- https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts054
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 12:16 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/output/census/2021/census2021-ts054.zipSHA-256 ea55fdb81ab5d77e98e2b6c5c8d00b7821c043737eb9f1810aa835dfc554b58b · 4,074,415 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:20 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 12:20 UTC; 5 of 5 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis); Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T12:16:35Z; 1 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 1 of 1 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 5 of 5 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 5 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 5 of 5 figures match exactly after downloading 1 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ONS Census API agrees | 5 of 5 categories match England plus Wales from the ONS Census API (hh_tenure_9a); 4 to the person, the rest within 3 people, which is ONS's disclosure-control perturbation |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts054 – HTTP 200 |