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Housing Statistics Released for England 2007

Feb 8 2008

This annual compendium of statistics, published today, covers a wide range of housing topics, and includes the following highlights.

  • new house building completions in 2006 totalled 161,000 in England - this was 24 per cent higher than in 2001
  • total stock in England rose to 22 million in 2006, with 1.5 million of those being added over the past 10 years
  • seventy per cent of households are owner occupiers, 18 per cent are social tenants and 12 per cent are private renters - the proportion of private renters has risen from 10 per cent in 2001 whilst the proportion of social renters has fallen from 20 per cent - the proportion of owner occupiers has remained stable
  • house prices in England rose by an average of six per cent from 2005 to 2006 - prices in the three northern regions (North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber) and in London increased by more than the average - the greatest percentage change was in Yorkshire and the Humber (8 per cent)
  • lower quartile house prices stood at 7.1 times lower quartile earnings in 2006, up from 4.2 times in 2001 - comparing median house prices to median earnings gives similar figures (6.9 times in 2006 against 4.5 times in 2001)
  • the number of households in England rose by 21 per cent between 1981 to 2004, and are projected to increase by a further 23 per cent from 2004 to 2026
  • the number of new cases of homeless households reported by local authorities had its lowest quarter since the early 1980s, with 16,000 new cases between April and June 2007 - an overall downward trend has followed the recent peak in 2003
  • the number of households in temporary accommodation fell below 90,000 in the last quarter of 2006, and in the second quarter of 2007 was at 85,000, its lowest point since 2002.

Housing Statistics 2007, compiled by Communities and Local Government statisticians, can be found at: www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/housingstatisticsannuals/housingstatisticsannuals/

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