Department for Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 12 May 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of households that owned their home in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
Of the estimated 22.5 million households in England in 2014-15, 14.3 million or 64% were owner occupiers. The proportion of all households in owner occupation increased steadily from the 1980s to 2003 when it reached a peak of 71%. A period of gradual decline in owner occupation followed but this has recently abated with a slight increase in owner occupation rates between 2013-14 and 2014-15.
The department publishes this information annually in the English Housing Survey headline report. Percentage of households that are owner occupiers, England:
Thousands of households | percentages | |
1980 | 9,680 | 56.6 |
1981 | 9,860 | 57.2 |
1982 | 10,237 | 58.6 |
1983 | 10,613 | 60.0 |
1984 | 10,990 | 61.3 |
1985 | 11,305 | 62.4 |
1986 | 11,619 | 63.5 |
1987 | 11,934 | 64.6 |
1988 | 12,248 | 65.7 |
1989 | 12,515 | 66.3 |
1990 | 12,782 | 67.0 |
1991 | 13,050 | 67.6 |
1992 | 13,069 | 68.2 |
1993 | 13,280 | 68.3 |
1994 | 13,429 | 68.7 |
1995 | 13,467 | 68.5 |
1996 | 13,522 | 68.5 |
1997 | 13,629 | 68.6 |
1998 | 13,817 | 69.0 |
1999 | 14,091 | 69.9 |
2000 | 14,340 | 70.6 |
2001 | 14,359 | 70.4 |
2002 | 14,559 | 70.5 |
2003 | 14,701 | 70.9 |
2004 | 14,678 | 70.7 |
2005 | 14,791 | 70.7 |
2006 | 14,791 | 70.1 |
2007 | 14,733 | 69.6 |
2008 | 14,628 | 68.3 |
2008-09 | 14,621 | 67.9 |
2009-10 | 14,525 | 67.4 |
2010-11 | 14,450 | 66.0 |
2011-12 | 14,388 | 65.3 |
2012-13 | 14,337 | 65.2 |
2013-14 | 14,319 | 63.3 |
2014-15 | 14,324 | 63.6 |
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