Great Britain Country :
Housing Tenure (Simplified)

Housing Tenure (Simplified)

Data cube chart.

Year Owner-Occupied Local Authority etc Other Rented Other tenures
1971 8,711,677 Show data context 5,520,642 Show data context 3,817,142 Show data context 113,461 Show data context
1981 10,845,907 Show data context 6,073,158 Show data context 2,140,778 Show data context 345,048 Show data context
1991 14,451,002 Show data context 4,686,293 Show data context 2,643,943 Show data context 0 Show data context
2001 16,288,627 Show data context 3,341,618 Show data context 3,699,004 Show data context 446,087 Show data context
2011 16,502,900 Show data context 2,520,825 Show data context 6,369,125 Show data context 345,971 Show data context
2021 17,084,846 Show data context 2,061,853 Show data context 6,945,670 Show data context 635,097 Show data context
Date Source
1971 - 2021 Great Britain Historical GIS Project

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From 1961 the census has gathered data on whether households owned or rented their homes, and if rented whom from. Here we present a simple classification which is possible for all dates. It is based on counts of households, rather than of persons within households. Note that, because of how the 1971 Census reported tenure, housing rented from Housing Associations has to be included with private rentals, separately from "council housing".


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Great Britain through time | Housing Statistics | Housing Tenure (Simplified), A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10090283/cube/HOUS_TENURE_HH_GEN

Date accessed: 17th November 2025