Households in temporary accommodation, Wales
Households in Wales placed in temporary accommodation by their council at the end of each period: quarterly from 2015 to 2019, each March from 2020 to 2022, then each March and September.
Households in temporary accommodation
6,201
31 Mar 2026
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 15:11 UTCSource: Welsh Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
29 periods, newest first
| Period | Households in temporary accommodation |
|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2026 | 6,201 |
| 30 Sep 2025 | 6,426 |
| 31 Mar 2025 | 6,417 |
| 30 Sep 2024 | 6,495 |
| 31 Mar 2024 | 6,447 |
| 30 Sep 2023 | 5,700 |
| 31 Mar 2023 | 5,481 |
| 31 Mar 2022 | 4,464 |
| 31 Mar 2021 | 3,729 |
| 31 Mar 2020 | 2,325 |
| 31 Dec 2019 | 2,262 |
| 30 Sep 2019 | 2,307 |
| 30 Jun 2019 | 2,229 |
| 31 Mar 2019 | 2,226 |
| 31 Dec 2018 | 2,139 |
| 30 Sep 2018 | 2,124 |
| 30 Jun 2018 | 2,142 |
| 31 Mar 2018 | 2,052 |
| 31 Dec 2017 | 1,971 |
| 30 Sep 2017 | 2,058 |
| 30 Jun 2017 | 1,980 |
| 31 Mar 2017 | 2,013 |
| 31 Dec 2016 | 1,953 |
| 30 Sep 2016 | 1,923 |
| 30 Jun 2016 | 1,926 |
| 31 Mar 2016 | 1,875 |
| 31 Dec 2015 | 1,779 |
| 30 Sep 2015 | 1,881 |
| 30 Jun 2015 | 1,872 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Welsh Government
- Check it yourself
- https://stats.gov.wales/en-GB/5c5c13c0-78f9-4232-8afa-5f343ef2b0d5
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 15:11 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://api.stats.gov.wales/v2/5c5c13c0-78f9-4232-8afa-5f343ef2b0d5SHA-256 678fb4388d26e3886f91c9fdbdf5ba4744e54ff267a2205608cc1fc37b201843 · 6,313 bytes
- https://api.stats.gov.wales/v2/5c5c13c0-78f9-4232-8afa-5f343ef2b0d5/data?format=csvSHA-256 e15d3c54a918c50542a1151fd9ea48ea36bab77dc36811c4d19ebbe0faab5267 · 23,646,622 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 15:11 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 15:11 UTC; 29 of 29 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Welsh Government; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T15:11:03Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 29 of 29 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 29 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 29 of 29 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 300) |
| Pass | StatsWales JSON edition agrees | 29 of 29 figures match the 202,422 rows of the JSON edition from https://api.stats.gov.wales/v2/5c5c13c0-78f9-4232-8afa-5f343ef2b0d5/data?format=json&page_size=10000&page_number=1 |
| Pass | Councils sum to Wales | 29 of 29 figures match the 22 councils summed in the stored file, within the 22 their rounding to the nearest 3 allows (8 exact) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://stats.gov.wales/en-GB/5c5c13c0-78f9-4232-8afa-5f343ef2b0d5 – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Counts are rounded to the nearest 3 and the Welsh Government suppresses values under 3, so councils need not add up to Wales. England's temporary accommodation figures on this site are MHCLG's and are counted differently.