Households by tenure, England
The shares of households in England that own their home, rent privately or rent from a council or housing association, each year since 1980, from the English Housing Survey's headline report and the Labour Force Surveys before it.
Owner occupiers
64.83%
2024/25 · of households; private renters 18.9%, social renters 16.3%
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC- Owner occupiers
- Private renters
- Social renters
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
46 periods, newest first
| Period | Owner occupiers | Private renters | Social renters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 64.83% | 18.86% | 16.31% |
| 2023/24 | 64.77% | 18.83% | 16.39% |
| 2022/23 | 64.76% | 18.82% | 16.41% |
| 2021/22 | 64.30% | 19.05% | 16.64% |
| 2020/21 | 64.86% | 18.51% | 16.63% |
| 2019/20 | 64.60% | 18.66% | 16.73% |
| 2018/19 | 63.82% | 19.34% | 16.84% |
| 2017/18 | 63.53% | 19.46% | 17.01% |
| 2016/17 | 62.57% | 20.33% | 17.10% |
| 2015/16 | 62.92% | 19.88% | 17.20% |
| 2014/15 | 63.62% | 19.00% | 17.37% |
| 2013/14 | 63.31% | 19.35% | 17.33% |
| 2012/13 | 65.24% | 18.00% | 16.76% |
| 2011/12 | 65.28% | 17.44% | 17.28% |
| 2010/11 | 66.00% | 16.52% | 17.48% |
| 2009/10 | 67.39% | 15.56% | 17.05% |
| 2008/09 | 67.91% | 14.25% | 17.84% |
| 2008 | 68.33% | 13.93% | 17.74% |
| 2007 | 69.56% | 12.71% | 17.73% |
| 2006 | 70.12% | 12.16% | 17.72% |
| 2005 | 70.66% | 11.68% | 17.66% |
| 2004 | 70.71% | 11.00% | 18.29% |
| 2003 | 70.88% | 10.77% | 18.34% |
| 2002 | 70.46% | 10.31% | 19.22% |
| 2001 | 70.37% | 10.10% | 19.52% |
| 2000 | 70.57% | 9.98% | 19.45% |
| 1999 | 69.88% | 9.92% | 20.19% |
| 1998 | 68.99% | 10.30% | 20.71% |
| 1997 | 68.57% | 10.45% | 20.98% |
| 1996 | 68.52% | 10.11% | 21.37% |
| 1995 | 68.53% | 9.87% | 21.60% |
| 1994 | 68.67% | 9.56% | 21.77% |
| 1993 | 68.35% | 9.44% | 22.22% |
| 1992 | 68.20% | 8.99% | 22.81% |
| 1991 | 67.58% | 9.45% | 22.97% |
| 1990 | 66.95% | 9.34% | 23.71% |
| 1989 | 66.31% | 9.23% | 24.46% |
| 1988 | 65.65% | 9.12% | 25.23% |
| 1987 | 64.59% | 9.51% | 25.91% |
| 1986 | 63.50% | 9.90% | 26.60% |
| 1985 | 62.39% | 10.30% | 27.31% |
| 1984 | 61.26% | 10.70% | 28.04% |
| 1983 | 59.95% | 10.83% | 29.22% |
| 1982 | 58.61% | 10.95% | 30.44% |
| 1981 | 57.23% | 11.09% | 31.69% |
| 1980 | 56.60% | 11.95% | 31.45% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:13 UTC
- Raw files fetched
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Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC; 138 of 138 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:13:45Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 138 of 138 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 138 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 138 of 138 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025-03-31 ended 587 days before retrieval (limit 700), from Chapter 1: Profile of households and dwellings annex tables |
| Not run | Second official route | No second route publishes these shares: MHCLG's dwelling stock by tenure counts dwellings, not households, from other sources, and the Census counts them once a decade. |
| Pass | The tenures add up | 46 of 46 cases of the years' owner occupiers, private renters and social renters add up to all households, in thousands, within each figure's own rounding |
| Pass | The shares add up | 46 of 46 cases of the years' shares of owner occupiers, private renters and social renters add up to 100, within each figure's own rounding |
| Pass | Each share is its households of all | 138 of 138 cases of the shares are the tenure's households over all households, within each figure's own rounding |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- The share of all households in England in each tenure, as Annex Table 1.1 of the English Housing Survey's headline report gives it: from the Labour Force Survey's housing trailer for 1980 to 1991, the Labour Force Survey for 1992 to 2008 and the English Housing Survey's full household sample from 2008-09, each survey year running from April to March.
- Social renters rent from a council or a housing association. MHCLG says many housing association tenants report that they rent from their council, so it gives the two apart only from 2008-09, with an adjustment.