Households owed help with homelessness and their outcomes, Wales
The latest year is provisional
Households in Wales owed each of the councils' three homelessness duties – to help prevent it, to help relieve it and the final duty to secure a home – and those for whom each succeeded, each financial year since 2015–16.
Owed the prevention duty
7,662
2025/26 · provisional
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 21:07 UTC- Owed the prevention duty
- Homelessness prevented
- Owed the relief duty
- Homelessness relieved
- Owed the final duty
- Final duty positively discharged
Source: Welsh Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
11 periods, newest first
| Period | Owed the prevention duty | Homelessness prevented | Owed the relief duty | Homelessness relieved | Owed the final duty | Final duty positively discharged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 7,662 | 4,671 | 12,183 | 3,351 | 7,017 | 5,013 |
| 2024/25 | 7,752 | 4,602 | 13,020 | 3,318 | 7,143 | 5,145 |
| 2023/24 | 8,772 | 5,079 | 13,539 | 3,555 | 6,135 | 4,305 |
| 2022/23 | 9,246 | 5,457 | 12,537 | 3,801 | 5,094 | 3,636 |
| 2021/22 | 9,228 | 6,162 | 11,703 | 3,993 | 4,086 | 2,835 |
| 2020/21 | 7,290 | 4,761 | 13,161 | 5,088 | 3,795 | 2,859 |
| 2019/20 | 9,993 | 6,699 | 12,399 | 5,088 | 3,060 | 2,388 |
| 2018/19 | 10,737 | 7,290 | 11,715 | 4,779 | 2,631 | 2,091 |
| 2017/18 | 9,072 | 6,021 | 11,277 | 4,653 | 2,229 | 1,746 |
| 2016/17 | 9,231 | 5,727 | 10,908 | 4,506 | 2,073 | 1,671 |
| 2015/16 | 7,128 | 4,599 | 6,891 | 3,108 | 1,611 | 1,284 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Welsh Government
- Check it yourself
- https://stats.gov.wales/en-GB/e856209f-09d4-4e98-824c-19c101813f67
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 21:04 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://api.stats.gov.wales/v2/e856209f-09d4-4e98-824c-19c101813f67SHA-256 f73b5df97b2c5e22bbc2b8c2261aeabfa0ecc3f1409ec7707259a39869181282 · 6,660 bytes
- https://api.stats.gov.wales/v2/e856209f-09d4-4e98-824c-19c101813f67/data?format=csvSHA-256 61a690ec60bd569bf9acad7bf89bd8eb9904a31a09be35f41f3e8fe7c262916a · 526,375 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 21:07 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 21:07 UTC; 66 of 66 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Welsh Government; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T21:04:48Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 66 of 66 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 66 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 66 of 66 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | StatsWales dataset is current | latest period 2026-03-31 ended 215 days before retrieval (limit 550) |
| Pass | StatsWales JSON edition agrees | 66 of 66 figures match the 4,005 rows of the JSON edition from https://api.stats.gov.wales/v2/e856209f-09d4-4e98-824c-19c101813f67/data?format=json&page_size=10000&page_number=1 |
| Pass | StatsWales outcomes cube agrees | 14 of 14 figures match Wales's households prevented and relieved in https://api.stats.gov.wales/v2/9178f117-b84d-4494-ada6-8ebffab4778d/data?format=csv, within the 3 each count's rounding allows; the proof counts these figures under the route that gives them all |
| Pass | StatsWales's percentages match the counts | 33 of 33 cases of year and outcome, StatsWales's percentage of households whose duty succeeded is within half a point, and the movement its rounding of both counts to 3 allows, of the stored counts' |
| Pass | The three regions add up to Wales | 48 of 48 cases of year and measure, the three regions' households sum to Wales's within 6 (37 exactly) |
| Pass | The councils' record agrees | 2 of 2 cases of year, homelessness-prevention-wales-by-council's Wales row gives the same households owed the prevention duty |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://stats.gov.wales/en-GB/e856209f-09d4-4e98-824c-19c101813f67 – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 a council owes households threatened with homelessness within 56 days its duty to help prevent it (section 66), those already homeless its duty to help secure accommodation (section 73) and those still homeless after that, in priority need and not intentionally so, its final duty (section 75). Each outcome counts the households for whom that duty succeeded.
- StatsWales rounds every count to the nearest 3 and suppresses figures under 3, so the regions and councils need not add up to Wales exactly. England's homelessness figures are counted under a different law and are on their own pages.