New social housing lettings

Published 10 October 2017

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1. Main facts and figures

• in 2015/16 there were 355,898 new social housing lettings in England

• around 79% of new social housing went to White British households

• of all the ethnic groups, White Gypsy or Irish Traveller households had the fewest new social housing lettings

• Asian households were underrepresented in new social housing lettings - particularly Indian and Pakistani households

• Black households were overrepresented in new social housing lettings - particularly the Black African and Black Caribbean ethnic groups

Things you need to know

These figures are based on the Continuous Recording of Lettings and Sales in Social Housing (CORE). CORE is a complete census of new social housing lettings.

There may be some inaccuracy In the administrative data used to compile these statistics due to missing responses or reporting errors when the data was entered.

Tenants can refuse to give information on their ethnicity. The data used here excludes any records where ethnicity was refused or where information on ethnicity is missing. This means that figures for new lettings may be different from other published figures on social housing.

Social housing is provided by local authorities and private registered providers (mainly housing associations).

Household income used in these figures does not take account of the size or membership of households, which means that we can’t make statements about whether some ethnic groups are poorer compared to others.

For example, two households may have the same number of people, but in one household there are several dependent children, while in the other, everyone is employed. In this data, the amount of rent as a percentage of household income has not been adjusted to reflect these differences.

What the data measures

This data measures access to social housing using the number of new social housing lettings in England in 2015/16, broken down by ethnic group.

Social housing is let to tenants by local authorities or private registered providers (mainly housing associations).

The figures come from the Continuous Recording of Lettings and Sales in Social Housing (CORE) in 2015/16, which records:

• social housing lettings
• affordable housing lettings
• sales by private registered landlords

The CORE data used here relates to new, permanent general lettings of social housing. It doesn’t include other types of letting, except temporary lettings where a household moves into supported housing. New lettings include households new to social housing as well as households moving within the social housing sector if they are let a new tenancy.

Each new letting is classified according to the ethnic group that the named tenant of the household belongs to. This refers to the named tenant where the letting is made on a single tenancy basis. In the case of joint tenancies, the ethnicity of the most economically active or working person is used. If both tenants are working, or neither is working, the ethnicity of the oldest person is counted. This measure excludes those new lettings where the named tenant’s ethnicity is refused.

The information relates to residential households who were let social housing in the financial year April 2015 to March 2016. A household is one person or a group of people (not necessarily related) who have the accommodation as their only or main residence. If it is a group, they must share cooking facilities and also share a living room, sitting room or dining area.

To provide additional context, the percentage of new social housing lettings by ethnic group has been compared to population estimates (2015) published by ONS. These population estimates are available in the download.

The ethnic categories used in this data

For comparisons made at national and regional levels, this data uses the standardised ethnic groups based on the 2011 census:

White:

• English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British
• Irish
• Gypsy, Traveller or Irish Traveller
• Any other White background

Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups:

• White and Black Caribbean
• White and Black African
• White and Asian
• Any other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background

Asian/Asian British:

• Indian
• Pakistani
• Bangladeshi
• Chinese
• Any other Asian background

Black/African/Caribbean/Black British:

• African
• Caribbean
• Any other Black/African/Caribbean background

Other ethnic group:

• Arab
• Any other ethnic group

For data analysed both by ethnicity and by local authority, the following binary categories have been used:

• White
• Other

This is because the number of people surveyed to generate estimates for the population as a whole becomes too small to be reliable when broken down both by ethnicity (in either detailed or broad categories) and by another factor like local authority.

2. New social housing lettings by ethnicity

• Location: England
• Time period: 2015/16
• Source: Social housing lettings statistics

Percentage and number of new social housing lettings compared to the overall population by ethnicity

Ethnicity	%	Social housing lettings	Population (2015 estimate)
Asian	4.5	15,938	8.1
Bangladeshi	0.9	3,332	0.9
Chinese	0.2	630	0.7
Indian	0.8	2,686	2.7
Pakistani	1.4	5,051	2.2
Asian other	1.2	4,239	1.6
Black	7.2	25,801	3.7
Black African	3.8	13,492	2.0
Black Caribbean	2.5	8,987	1.1
Black other	0.9	3,322	0.6
Mixed	3.0	10,648	2.6
Mixed White/Asian	0.4	1,272	0.7
Mixed White/Black African	0.5	1,754	0.4
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	1.4	5,098	0.9
Mixed other	0.7	2,524	0.6
White	83.6	297,383	84.6
White British	78.7	280,045	78.8
White Irish	0.6	2,041	0.9
White Gypsy or Irish Traveller	0.1	357	0.1
White other	4.2	14,940	4.7
Other	1.7	6,128	1.1
Arab	0.5	1,744	0.4
Any other	1.2	4,384	0.6

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Summary of New social housing lettings New social housing lettings by ethnicity Summary

• there were 355,898 new social housing lettings in 2015/16

• of all the ethnic groups, White British households had the most new social housing lettings, with around 280,000 lettings, or 78.7% of all lettings

• of all the ethnic groups, White Gypsy or Irish Traveller households had the fewest new social housing lettings, with 357 lettings, or 0.1% of all lettings

• Asian households were underrepresented in new social housing lettings - particularly Indian and Pakistani households, which had 0.8% and 1.4% of new social housing lettings respectively, while they accounted for 2.7% and 2.2% of the population of England

• Black households were overrepresented in new social housing lettings - particularly the Black African and Black Caribbean ethnic groups, which had 3.8% and 2.5% of new social housing lettings respectively, while they accounted for 2.0% and 1.1% of the population of England

3. New social housing lettings by ethnicity and income

• Location: England
• Time period: 2015/16
• Source: Social housing lettings statistics

Percentage and number of new social housing lettings by ethnicity and weekly income

	Less than £100		£100 to £199		£200 to £299		£300 to £399		£400 to £499		£500 to £599		£600 and above
Ethnicity	Less than £100 %	Less than £100 Social housing lettings	£100 to £199 %	£100 to £199 Social housing lettings	£200 to £299 %	£200 to £299 Social housing lettings	£300 to £399 %	£300 to £399 Social housing lettings	£400 to £499 %	£400 to £499 Social housing lettings	£500 to £599 %	£500 to £599 Social housing lettings	£600 and above %	£600 and above Social housing lettings
Asian	24.7	2,318	24.8	2,330	21.3	2,001	14.4	1,354	8.3	775	3.9	370	2.6	243
Bangladeshi	15.8	269	24.5	417	22.9	390	18.4	313	10.5	178	4.9	83	3.0	51
Chinese	15.8	51	33.2	108	28.3	92	10.7	35	8.2	27	2.5	8	1.3	4
Indian	25.4	415	27.1	444	20.0	326	13.8	226	7.9	129	2.9	48	2.8	46
Pakistani	26.6	854	22.1	710	21.3	682	15.2	487	8.8	284	3.8	122	2.2	69
Asian other	28.9	729	25.8	651	20.2	511	11.6	293	6.2	157	4.3	109	2.9	72
Black	28.9	4,428	23.1	3,544	18.7	2,872	14.1	2,159	7.9	1,214	3.9	592	3.4	519
Black African	27.4	2,265	20.6	1,700	18.7	1,544	15.3	1,266	9.4	776	4.6	382	4.0	329
Black Caribbean	32.5	1,727	26.0	1,383	18.6	988	12.1	641	5.7	302	2.9	153	2.3	124
Black other	24.9	436	26.4	461	19.4	340	14.4	252	7.8	136	3.3	57	3.8	66
Mixed	31.4	1,978	25.7	1,621	19.9	1,254	11.7	738	6.0	379	3.0	190	2.4	149
Mixed White/Asian	33.4	264	26.5	210	18.9	150	9.0	72	7.1	56	2.7	21	2.3	18
Mixed White/Black African	26.5	274	25.7	266	19.3	199	13.8	143	7.0	73	3.9	41	3.7	39
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	35.9	1,106	26.8	825	18.5	569	10.3	317	4.9	150	2.1	65	1.6	49
Mixed other	23.8	334	22.8	320	23.9	336	14.7	206	7.1	100	4.5	63	3.1	43
White	21.5	35,155	27.8	45,585	22.6	37,043	13.5	22,172	7.3	11,925	4.2	6,868	3.1	5,083
White British	22.1	33,993	28.5	43,791	22.5	34,658	13.2	20,238	6.9	10,669	3.9	5,972	2.9	4,529
White Irish	25.4	283	33.7	375	20.1	224	10.9	121	5.1	57	2.4	26	2.4	27
White Gypsy or Irish Traveller	26.8	54	28.8	58	22.7	45	10.4	21	7.7	15	2.0	4	1.5	3
White other	9.5	825	15.7	1,361	24.4	2,116	20.7	1,792	13.7	1,184	10.0	866	6.0	524
Other	34.7	1,271	24.9	910	17.4	635	11.0	401	6.9	251	3.4	125	1.8	65
Arab	40.4	426	22.8	240	16.2	171	9.7	102	6.3	67	3.1	33	1.5	16
Any other	32.5	845	25.7	670	17.8	464	11.5	299	7.1	184	3.5	92	1.9	49

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Summary of New social housing lettings New social housing lettings by ethnicity and income Summary

• the ethnic groups with the highest percentage of tenants earning less than £200 per week were Arab and Mixed White/Black Caribbean, at 63.2% and 62.7% respectively

• the ethnic groups with the lowest percentage of tenants earning less than £200 per week were Other White, at 25.2%

• 40.4% of Arab social housing tenants earned less than £100 per week, the highest percentage for any ethnic group for this income bracket

• 16.0% of Other White tenants earned more than £500 per week, the highest percentage for any ethnic group

• 3.5% of Gypsy/Irish Traveller tenants earned more than £500 per week, the lowest percentage of tenants earning within this income bracket

• around one third of all social housing tenants in each ethnic group earned between £200 and £400 per week, with over half of Other White social housing tenants earning that, the highest percentage for any ethnic group for this income bracket

4. New social housing lettings by ethnicity and region

• Location: England
• Time period: 2015/16
• Source: Social housing lettings statistics

Percentage of new social housing lettings by ethnicity and region

Ethnicity	North East	North West	Yorkshire & Humber	East Midlands	West Midlands	East of England	London	South East	South West
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Asian	1.5	3.0	4.3	3.4	6.2	2.8	12.2	3.4	1.2
Bangladeshi	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.7	4.8	0.4	0.2
Chinese	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.1
Indian	0.1	0.4	0.4	1.4	1.3	0.5	1.8	0.5	0.2
Pakistani	0.3	1.3	2.2	0.9	2.9	0.8	1.8	1.2	0.2
Asian other	0.6	0.9	1.2	0.8	1.1	0.7	3.3	1.1	0.4
Black	1.5	3.8	4.2	3.8	8.8	3.8	29.3	3.6	2.7
Black African	1.2	2.5	2.7	2.0	4.1	2.0	14.1	2.2	1.3
Black Caribbean	0.1	0.8	1.0	1.3	4.0	1.3	11.4	0.9	0.8
Black other	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.5	3.7	0.5	0.6
Mixed	0.8	2.1	2.4	2.7	4.3	2.9	6.7	2.4	2.0
Mixed White/Asian	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3
Mixed White/Black African	0.2	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.4	1.2	0.4	0.2
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	0.1	0.8	1.1	1.6	2.6	1.3	3.2	1.0	1.0
Mixed other	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.9	1.8	0.7	0.5
White	95.1	89.7	86.9	88.8	78.8	89.6	47.8	89.8	93.4
White British	93.4	85.2	82.4	84.1	74.1	84.2	38.7	85.5	89.9
White Irish	0.2	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.5	1.6	0.5	0.4
White Gypsy/Traveller	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1
White other	1.5	3.9	4.2	4.2	3.9	4.8	7.4	3.7	3.0
Other	1.0	1.5	2.2	1.2	2.0	0.9	4.0	0.9	0.7
Arab	0.3	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.7	0.2	1.1	0.2	0.1
Any other	0.7	1.0	1.6	1.0	1.3	0.7	2.9	0.7	0.5

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Summary of New social housing lettings New social housing lettings by ethnicity and region Summary

• in all areas of England, compared to latest population estimates Black households were over-represented and Asian households were under-represented in new social housing lettings

• the area where ethnic groups were most likely to be under- or over-represented in new social housing lettings in 2015 was London

• in London, Black Caribbean households were over-represented in new social housing lettings (they accounted for 11.3% of new lettings but 4.1% of the population), as were Black African households (who accounted for 14.2% of lettings but 7.3% of the population)

• in London, White British households were under-represented in new social housing lettings (they accounted for 38.4% of new lettings but 43.8% of the population), as were White Other households (7.5% of lettings but 12.7% of the population) and Asian Indian households (1.8% of lettings but 6.6% of the population)

5. New social housing lettings by ethnicity and local authority

• Location: England
• Time period: 2015/16
• Source: Social housing lettings statistics

Percentage of new social housing lettings by ethnicity and local authority compared to the overall population

	White			Other
Local authority	White %	White Social housing lettings	White Population estimate (2015)	Other %	Other Social housing lettings	Other Population estimate (2015)
Hartlepool	98.1	1,318	97.5	1.9	26	2.5
Middlesbrough	91.9	1,834	87.3	8.1	162	12.7
Redcar and Cleveland	97.7	1,738	98.4	2.3	41	1.6
Stockton-on-Tees	94.0	1,463	94.2	6.0	94	5.8
Darlington	96.7	1,083	96.0	3.2	36	4.0
Halton	98.0	1,457	97.7	2.0	30	2.3
Warrington	92.7	1,329	95.6	7.3	104	4.4
Blackburn with Darwen	85.4	1,317	67.8	14.6	226	32.2
Blackpool	97.9	1,025	96.4	2.1	22	3.6
Kingston upon Hull, City of	93.6	3,804	93.7	6.4	262	6.3
East Riding of Yorkshire	99.0	1,344	97.9	1.0	14	2.1
North East Lincolnshire	98.5	1,591	97.2	1.5	24	2.8
North Lincolnshire	97.4	1,370	95.7	2.6	36	4.3
York	96.0	906	94.0	4.0	38	6.0
Derby	79.9	1,720	79.2	20.1	432	20.8
Leicester	62.1	1,608	49.3	37.9	983	50.7
Rutland	94.7	161	97.1	5.3	9	2.9
Nottingham	71.6	2,655	69.9	28.4	1,052	30.1
Herefordshire, County of	98.7	947	98.1	1.3	12	1.9
Telford and Wrekin	95.0	1,320	92.3	5.0	70	7.7
Stoke-on-Trent	86.2	3,023	87.8	13.8	483	12.2
Bath and North East Somerset	94.6	989	94.4	5.4	57	5.6
Bristol, City of	76.6	2,875	82.7	23.4	877	17.3
North Somerset	95.1	940	97.1	4.9	48	2.9
South Gloucestershire	92.3	971	94.5	7.7	81	5.5
Plymouth	94.5	1,895	96.0	5.5	111	4.0
Torbay	97.5	741	97.3	2.5	19	2.7
Bournemouth	92.3	776	91.4	7.8	66	8.6
Poole	97.9	458	95.6	2.4	11	4.4
Swindon	89.2	1,460	89.3	10.8	176	10.7
Peterborough	85.0	1,336	81.6	15.0	236	18.4
Luton	57.8	671	52.7	42.2	490	47.3
Southend-on-Sea	91.9	733	91.1	8.0	64	8.9
Thurrock	86.9	839	84.9	13.1	126	15.1
Medway	91.5	1,279	89.2	8.6	120	10.8
Bracknell Forest	92.5	516	90.1	7.5	42	9.9
West Berkshire	94.8	797	94.5	5.2	44	5.5
Reading	71.9	559	73.4	28.1	218	26.6
Slough	51.4	385	44.5	48.6	364	55.5
Windsor and Maidenhead	84.8	407	85.4	15.2	73	14.6
Wokingham	84.5	240	87.6	15.5	44	12.4
Milton Keynes	74.6	942	78.8	25.4	320	21.2
Brighton and Hove	88.7	1,222	88.3	11.3	155	11.7
Portsmouth	89.9	1,340	87.8	10.1	151	12.2
Southampton	88.2	1,964	85.3	11.8	263	14.7
Isle of Wight	99.3	689	97.2	0.7	5	2.8
County Durham	98.9	5,367	98.1	1.1	60	1.9
Cheshire East	96.3	2,423	96.5	3.7	93	3.5
Cheshire West and Chester	98.0	2,412	97.2	2.0	48	2.8
Shropshire	97.8	1,894	97.9	2.3	44	2.1
Cornwall	98.2	2,764	98.1	1.7	49	1.9
Isles of Scilly	100.0	9	98.1	0.0	0	1.9
Wiltshire	93.9	2,339	96.4	6.1	152	3.6
Bedford	74.7	864	79.4	25.3	292	20.6
Central Bedfordshire	91.1	1,022	93.4	8.9	100	6.6
Northumberland	98.7	2,964	98.3	1.3	38	1.7
Aylesbury Vale	80.9	888	88.7	19.1	209	11.3
Chiltern	82.3	247	90.8	17.7	53	9.2
South Buckinghamshire	91.1	133	83.4	8.9	13	16.6
Wycombe	77.7	530	80.2	22.3	152	19.8
Cambridge	81.2	810	81.4	18.8	187	18.6
East Cambridgeshire	94.2	503	96.0	5.8	31	4.0
Fenland	96.2	530	97.2	3.8	21	2.8
Huntingdonshire	93.6	729	94.5	6.4	50	5.5
South Cambridgeshire	93.8	578	92.7	6.2	38	7.3
Allerdale	99.3	946	98.9	0.7	7	1.1
Barrow-in-Furness	97.8	401	98.3	2.0	8	1.7
Carlisle	98.2	854	98.0	1.8	16	2.0
Copeland	99.5	578	98.4	0.5	3	1.6
Eden	99.2	367	98.9	0.8	3	1.1
South Lakeland	97.9	518	98.3	2.1	11	1.7
Amber Valley	97.4	854	98.0	2.6	23	2.0
Bolsover	97.7	561	98.0	2.4	14	2.0
Chesterfield	97.7	1,177	96.3	2.3	28	3.7
Derbyshire Dales	98.1	362	98.5	1.9	7	1.5
Erewash	96.0	655	96.9	4.0	27	3.1
High Peak	98.3	463	97.8	1.7	8	2.2
North East Derbyshire	98.2	769	97.9	1.8	14	2.1
South Derbyshire	95.5	466	95.5	4.5	22	4.5
East Devon	99.1	575	98.2	0.9	5	1.8
Exeter	95.3	855	92.9	4.7	42	7.1
Mid Devon	99.1	341	98.6	0.9	3	1.4
North Devon	98.6	416	97.8	1.4	6	2.2
South Hampshire	98.9	279	98.2	1.1	3	1.8
Teignbridge	99.2	468	98.2	0.8	4	1.8
Torridge	97.6	245	98.6	2.4	6	1.4
West Devon	97.9	191	98.4	2.1	4	1.6
Christchurch	97.1	132	97.3	2.9	4	2.7
East Dorset	97.6	245	98.0	2.4	6	2.0
North Dorset	97.2	348	97.5	2.8	10	2.5
Purbeck		195	98.4			1.6
West Dorset	97.9	570	97.9	2.1	12	2.1
Weymouth and Portland	98.5	262	97.3	1.5	4	2.7
Eastbourne	96.2	426	93.7	3.8	17	6.3
Hastings	94.8	589	93.4	5.2	32	6.6
Lewes	96.9	311	96.4	3.1	10	3.6
Rother	96.8	269	96.9	3.2	9	3.1
Wealden	97.2	489	97.4	2.8	14	2.6
Basildon	94.1	1,062	92.1	5.9	67	7.9
Braintree	96.6	774	96.4	3.4	27	3.6
Brentwood	92.8	233	93.1	7.2	18	6.9
Castle Point	97.8	135	96.7	2.2	3	3.3
Chelmsford	92.8	604	93.5	7.2	47	6.5
Colchester	91.2	942	91.6	8.7	90	8.4
Epping Forest	88.9	392	90.0	11.1	49	10.0
Harlow	89.7	660	88.5	10.3	76	11.5
Maldon	98.4	247	98.0	1.6	4	2.0
Rochford		196	97.0			3.0
Tendring	97.4	416	97.4	2.6	11	2.6
Uttlesford	95.0	345	96.4	5.0	18	3.6
Cheltenham	95.5	696	93.9	4.5	33	6.1
Cotswold	97.2	450	97.6	2.8	13	2.4
Forest of Dean	99.0	512	98.3	1.0	5	1.7
Gloucester	88.2	870	88.6	11.8	116	11.4
Stroud	96.5	553	97.8	3.5	20	2.2
Tewkesbury	95.1	442	97.2	4.9	23	2.8
Basingstoke and Deane	94.8	901	92.4	5.2	49	7.6
East Hampshire	94.6	435	96.4	5.4	25	3.6
Eastleigh	95.5	381	94.3	4.5	18	5.7
Fareham	97.2	516	96.5	2.6	14	3.5
Gosport	97.2	558	96.1	2.8	16	3.9
Hart	96.3	335	94.5	3.7	13	5.5
Havant	96.7	683	96.9	3.1	22	3.1
New Forest	98.8	413	97.4	1.2	5	2.6
Rushmoor	89.4	336	84.5	10.6	40	15.5
Test Valley	94.8	652	95.6	5.2	36	4.4
Winchester	95.9	654	95.5	4.1	28	4.5
Broxbourne	86.8	354	89.7	13.2	54	10.3
Dacorum	90.5	891	90.1	9.6	94	9.9
Hertsmere	84.3	467	84.3	15.7	87	15.7
North Hertfordshire	88.4	593	89.0	11.6	78	11.0
Three Rivers	90.9	289	85.6	9.1	29	14.4
Watford	77.1	424	70.5	22.9	126	29.5
Ashford	93.3	641	93.4	6.6	45	6.6
Canterbury	94.5	670	93.0	5.5	39	7.0
Dartford	88.3	338	86.6	11.5	44	13.4
Dover	97.5	585	96.5	2.5	15	3.5
Gravesham	87.6	360	81.9	12.4	51	18.1
Maidstone	89.8	798	93.7	10.2	91	6.3
Sevenoaks	95.4	433	95.5	4.6	21	4.5
Shepway	93.9	449	94.5	6.1	29	5.5
Swale	96.4	532	96.3	3.6	20	3.7
Thanet	94.1	586	95.3	5.9	37	4.7
Tonbridge and Malling	97.5	575	95.7	2.5	15	4.3
Tunbridge Wells	93.9	705	94.7	6.1	46	5.3
Burnley	91.3	929	86.4	8.7	89	13.6
Chorley	97.3	779	96.7	2.7	22	3.3
Fylde	98.5	258	97.3	1.5	4	2.7
Hyndburn	97.0	643	86.9	3.0	20	13.1
Lancaster	98.1	1,041	95.5	1.9	20	4.5
Pendle	93.3	588	78.6	6.7	42	21.4
Preston	92.2	1,330	79.2	7.8	113	20.8
Ribble Valley	98.9	259	97.8	1.1	3	2.2
Rossendale	98.1	525	93.2	1.9	10	6.8
South Ribble	97.5	658	96.9	2.5	17	3.1
West Lancashire	98.5	905	98.1	1.5	14	1.9
Wyre	96.9	436	98.1	3.1	14	1.9
Blaby	94.3	394	90.4	5.7	24	9.6
Charnwood	90.4	831	86.9	9.5	87	13.1
Harborough	95.8	323	95.0	4.2	14	5.0
Hinckley and Bosworth	96.7	444	96.2	3.3	15	3.8
Melton	98.0	301	97.8	2.0	6	2.2
North West Leicestershire	97.3	679	97.4	2.7	19	2.6
Oadby and Wigston	92.6	113	71.7	7.4	9	28.3
Boston	98.0	443	96.6	2.0	9	3.4
East Lindsey	98.7	971	98.4	1.3	13	1.6
Lincoln	97.7	1,196	95.4	2.4	29	4.6
North Kesteven	98.9	363	98.1	1.1	4	1.9
South Holland	98.6	420	97.7	1.4	6	2.3
South Kesteven	97.1	780	97.4	3.0	24	2.6
West Lindsey	98.3	567	98.1	1.7	10	1.9
Breckland	96.3	628	97.3	3.7	24	2.7
Broadland	95.8	366	97.5	4.2	16	2.5
Great Yarmouth	96.6	603	96.6	3.4	21	3.4
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	97.9	885	97.0	2.1	19	3.0
North Norfolk	98.4	379	98.6	1.6	6	1.4
Norwich	90.5	1,480	90.3	9.5	155	9.7
South Norfolk	98.0	529	97.3	2.0	11	2.7
Corby	96.0	577	95.3	4.0	24	4.7
Daventry	95.9	373	96.4	4.1	16	3.6
East Northamptonshire	96.7	469	96.5	3.3	16	3.5
Kettering	94.0	612	93.5	6.0	39	6.5
Northampton	81.3	1,234	83.8	18.7	283	16.2
South Northamptonshire	96.9	280	96.7	3.1	9	3.3
Wellingborough	84.9	405	86.8	15.1	72	13.2
Craven	98.3	290	97.2	1.7	5	2.8
Hambleton	98.4	552	98.1	1.6	9	1.9
Harrogate	96.3	651	96.2	3.8	26	3.8
Richmondshire	98.9	275	95.0	1.1	3	5.0
Ryedale	99.0	311	98.6	1.0	3	1.4
Scarborough	98.0	819	97.2	2.0	17	2.8
Selby	97.9	373	98.2	2.1	8	1.8
Ashfield	98.3	876	97.5	1.7	15	2.5
Bassetlaw	96.8	797	97.2	3.2	26	2.8
Broxtowe	94.1	590	92.2	5.7	36	7.8
Gedling	93.9	550	92.5	6.1	36	7.5
Mansfield	97.5	1,065	97.0	2.5	27	3.0
Newark and Sherwood	97.2	705	97.3	2.8	20	2.7
Rushcliffe	90.9	290	92.6	9.1	29	7.4
Cherwell	88.3	596	91.7	11.7	79	8.3
Oxford	73.2	674	75.8	26.8	247	24.2
South Oxfordshire	95.7	508	95.8	4.3	23	4.2
Vale of White Horse	91.4	708	94.4	8.6	67	5.6
West Oxfordshire	97.5	436	96.6	2.5	11	3.4
Mendip	97.9	612	97.9	2.1	13	2.1
Sedgemoor	98.0	636	98.3	1.8	12	1.7
South Somerset	98.8	1,199	97.9	1.2	15	2.1
Taunton Deane	97.0	1,059	97.1	3.0	33	2.9
West Somerset		207	98.6			1.4
Cannock Chase	98.6	625	97.6	1.4	9	2.4
East Staffordshire	91.6	631	89.5	8.4	58	10.5
Lichfield	97.1	496	96.6	2.9	15	3.4
Newcastle-under-Lyme	96.0	905	94.8	4.0	38	5.2
South Staffordshire	95.7	550	95.6	4.3	25	4.4
Stafford	96.1	1,184	94.7	3.9	48	5.3
Staffordshire Moorlands	97.3	397	98.6	2.7	11	1.4
Tamworth	98.0	402	97.2	2.0	8	2.8
Babergh	96.9	400	97.7	3.4	14	2.3
Forest Heath	96.6	309	91.4	3.4	11	8.6
Ipswich	83.4	1,165	88.3	16.6	232	11.7
Mid Suffolk	98.1	417	97.7	1.9	8	2.3
St Edmundsbury	96.6	777	95.9	3.4	27	4.1
Suffolk Coastal	96.2	581	96.3	3.8	23	3.7
Waveney	97.5	695	97.5	2.5	18	2.5
Elmbridge	89.0	276	89.8	11.0	34	10.2
Epsom and Ewell	82.9	107	85.2	17.1	22	14.8
Guildford	94.8	623	90.4	5.3	35	9.6
Mole Valley	96.1	348	94.7	3.9	14	5.3
Reigate and Banstead	85.3	463	90.0	14.7	80	10.0
Runnymede	87.4	341	88.6	12.3	48	11.4
Spelthorne	87.4	326	86.4	12.6	47	13.6
Surrey Heath	85.5	195	89.7	14.5	33	10.3
Tandridge	90.8	208	93.5	9.2	21	6.5
Waverley	94.0	392	95.9	6.2	26	4.1
Woking	80.6	304	82.7	19.4	73	17.3
North Warwickshire	95.8	274	97.8	3.8	11	2.2
Nuneaton and Bedworth	95.0	928	90.9	5.0	49	9.1
Rugby	91.5	444	90.1	8.5	41	9.9
Stratford-on-Avon	98.1	604	97.2	1.9	12	2.8
Warwick	91.9	758	88.6	8.0	66	11.4
Adur	90.9	199	95.5	9.1	20	4.5
Arun	97.1	537	96.8	3.1	17	3.2
Chichester	95.1	616	96.7	4.9	32	3.3
Crawley	76.1	452	78.8	23.9	142	21.2
Horsham	94.6	564	95.7	5.4	32	4.3
Mid Sussex	94.1	434	94.7	5.9	27	5.3
Worthing	88.8	318	93.3	11.2	40	6.7
Bromsgrove	95.6	474	95.5	4.4	22	4.5
Malvern Hills	97.9	368	97.6	2.1	8	2.4
Redditch	92.4	800	91.5	7.6	66	8.5
Worcester	93.4	906	93.0	6.6	64	7.0
Wychavon	98.5	647	97.7	1.5	10	2.3
Wyre Forest	97.3	617	97.1	2.7	17	2.9
St Albans	79.1	427	87.7	20.9	113	12.3
Welwyn Hatfield	87.3	647	83.5	12.7	94	16.5
East Hertfordshire	92.6	547	95.3	7.4	44	4.7
Stevenage	93.1	349	87.1	6.9	26	12.9
Bolton	86.3	2,550	80.8	13.7	406	19.2
Bury	89.0	1,226	88.4	11.0	151	11.6
Manchester	64.3	3,377	64.7	35.7	1,873	35.3
Oldham	81.7	1,515	75.8	18.3	339	24.2
Rochdale	83.9	2,269	80.6	16.1	437	19.4
Salford	82.7	2,399	89.4	17.3	501	10.6
Stockport	92.9	1,536	91.6	7.1	118	8.4
Tameside	88.7	2,169	90.3	11.3	275	9.7
Trafford	85.2	1,057	84.7	14.8	183	15.3
Wigan	95.9	2,786	97.1	4.1	120	2.9
Knowsley	98.6	1,513	97.0	1.4	21	3.0
Liverpool	83.7	4,940	88.3	16.3	963	11.7
St. Helens	98.3	2,184	97.9	1.7	37	2.1
Sefton	96.9	1,943	97.2	3.1	63	2.8
Wirral	97.5	3,223	96.8	2.5	84	3.2
Barnsley	95.0	1,983	97.7	5.0	105	2.3
Doncaster	94.5	2,594	94.9	5.5	151	5.1
Rotherham	94.6	2,793	93.1	5.4	159	6.9
Sheffield	76.8	6,038	82.6	23.2	1,821	17.4
Newcastle upon Tyne	83.4	3,546	84.7	16.6	707	15.3
North Tyneside	97.1	1,916	96.4	2.9	58	3.6
South Tyneside	96.8	2,217	95.7	3.2	74	4.3
Sunderland	97.4	3,489	95.6	2.6	94	4.4
Birmingham	55.2	6,232	56.0	44.8	5,065	44.0
Coventry	75.1	2,175	72.6	24.9	720	27.4
Dudley	84.4	2,291	89.3	15.6	425	10.7
Sandwell	72.2	2,541	68.5	27.8	976	31.5
Solihull	90.7	1,009	88.5	9.4	104	11.5
Walsall	80.4	2,425	77.7	19.6	592	22.3
Wolverhampton	68.4	2,231	66.7	31.6	1,033	33.3
Bradford	80.0	3,723	65.9	20.0	929	34.1
Calderdale	93.2	1,663	88.9	6.8	122	11.1
Kirklees	71.5	1,977	78.0	28.5	788	22.0
Leeds	76.9	6,528	84.1	23.1	1,960	15.9
Wakefield	95.3	2,826	95.1	4.7	138	4.9
Gateshead	94.3	2,559	96.0	5.7	155	4.0
City of London	49.2	31	62.6	50.8	32	37.4
Barking and Dagenham	57.6	573	55.8	42.5	422	44.2
Barnet	53.4	445	63.2	46.5	388	36.8
Bexley	71.0	573	80.7	29.0	234	19.3
Brent	28.2	367	35.5	71.8	934	64.5
Bromley	70.6	882	83.3	29.4	367	16.7
Camden	54.2	930	64.5	45.8	787	35.5
Croydon	40.4	799	53.6	59.6	1,178	46.4
Ealing	36.1	502	48.1	63.9	890	51.9
Enfield	45.5	549	59.6	54.5	657	40.4
Greenwich	53.0	1,086	61.0	47.0	963	39.0
Hackney	47.6	1,180	54.3	52.4	1,299	45.7
Hammersmith and Fulham	46.4	700	66.6	53.6	810	33.4
Haringey	45.1	458	59.9	54.9	557	40.1
Harrow	41.8	203	40.8	58.2	283	59.2
Havering	81.8	864	86.6	18.3	193	13.4
Hillingdon	59.8	804	58.7	40.2	541	41.3
Hounslow	46.6	493	50.4	53.4	566	49.6
Islington	49.5	926	66.1	50.6	946	33.9
Kensington and Chelsea	44.7	450	69.7	55.3	556	30.3
Kingston upon Thames	69.0	300	73.5	31.3	136	26.5
Lambeth	36.3	899	56.0	63.7	1,580	44.0
Lewisham	37.8	693	52.2	62.2	1,141	47.8
Merton	52.9	361	64.2	47.1	321	35.8
Newham	30.2	374	28.0	69.8	864	72.0
Redbridge	45.4	283	40.5	54.5	340	59.5
Richmond upon Thames	76.1	453	85.3	23.9	142	14.7
Southwark	39.0	1,036	52.8	61.0	1,620	47.2
Sutton	76.3	617	77.7	23.7	192	22.3
Tower Hamlets	29.8	897	43.1	70.2	2,114	56.9
Waltham Forest	36.8	624	51.0	63.2	1,072	49.0
Wandsworth	48.4	730	70.4	51.6	779	29.6
Westminster	63.8	1,809	60.4	36.2	1,028	39.6

Data withheld to protect confidentiality

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Summary of New social housing lettings New social housing lettings by ethnicity and local authority Summary

• most local authorities (306 out of 326) provided a higher number of social housing lettings to White households than to households from other ethnic groups

• all local authorities that let more social housing to ethnic groups other than White were in London

• the 10 local authorities with the largest over-representation of social housing for White households were all outside London

• the 10 local authorities with the largest under-representation of social housing for White households were all within London

6. New social housing lettings by ethnicity and age

• Location: England
• Time period: 2015/16
• Source: Social housing lettings statistics

Percentage of new social housing lettings by ethnicity and age

Ethnicity	16 - 17 yrs old	18 - 24 yrs old	25 - 29 yrs old	30 - 39 yrs old	40 - 49 yrs old	50 - 59 yrs old	60 - 69 yrs old	70 - 79 yrs old	80 + yrs old
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Asian	1.2	13.4	15.6	33.6	18.9	7.9	5.5	2.5	1.3
Bangladeshi	0.7	13.2	18.4	37.0	18.7	6.6	3.0	1.6	0.8
Chinese	0.6	5.9	10.0	27.7	21.7	11.3	12.9	3.6	6.2
Indian	0.9	9.6	13.4	28.7	19.5	12.0	9.0	4.6	2.3
Pakistani	1.8	16.0	18.5	35.7	16.3	5.6	3.6	1.7	0.8
Asian other	1.2	13.9	12.1	32.6	21.4	8.6	6.3	2.9	1.0
Black	1.3	17.1	15.3	28.0	19.9	11.3	3.7	2.2	1.1
Black African	1.1	15.2	15.9	31.2	22.4	9.2	3.4	1.4	0.3
Black Caribbean	1.8	19.7	14.4	23.4	15.8	14.1	4.4	3.8	2.5
Black other	1.2	17.6	15.3	27.6	21.0	11.9	3.2	1.5	0.8
Mixed	3.8	28.2	18.2	25.1	12.8	7.1	2.7	1.5	0.6
Mixed White/Asian	3.6	25.4	15.8	28.9	13.5	7.6	3.4	1.5	0.3
Mixed White/Black African	2.0	19.5	15.8	27.3	17.4	9.1	4.4	3.2	1.2
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	4.7	36.1	20.3	20.9	9.5	5.6	1.5	0.9	0.6
Mixed other	3.2	19.9	16.8	29.9	16.0	8.4	3.7	1.6	0.5
White	1.9	20.3	13.5	18.6	14.0	12.1	9.8	5.6	4.2
White British	1.9	20.9	13.4	17.6	13.7	12.2	10.0	5.8	4.4
White Irish	1.2	11.1	7.4	16.4	16.3	15.2	15.0	11.4	6.1
White Gypsy or Irish Traveller	3.9	24.9	13.0	23.5	15.9	12.5	3.2	2.0	1.1
White other	1.0	9.6	14.9	36.6	18.8	10.7	5.6	1.6	1.1
Other	1.6	14.6	15.1	31.6	19.6	9.5	4.5	2.5	0.9
Arab	1.4	13.7	15.4	32.7	19.8	9.8	4.6	1.8	0.8
Any other	1.6	15.0	15.0	31.2	19.5	9.4	4.5	2.7	1.0

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Summary of New social housing lettings New social housing lettings by ethnicity and age Summary

• the Mixed White and Black Caribbean ethnic group had the highest percentage of new lettings to the youngest tenants – 40.8% of lettings went to those aged 16 to 25 years

• the Chinese ethnic group had the highest percentage of new lettings to the oldest tenants – 6.2% of lettings went to those aged 80 or older

7. Methodology

The three main types of housing tenure in England are:

• owner occupiers
• private renters
• social renters

This data refers to new lettings to social renters only. The data is based on the data collected from providers via the on-line COntinuous REcording of Lettings and Sales in Social Housing in England (CORE) system. CORE was first set up in 1989 and initially only required private registered providers (PRPs) to submit social housing lettings and sales information to support the government’s regulatory function. CORE’s remit expanded in 2004 to include local authority information.

Some questions on the CORE questionnaire are not compulsory. In particular, data on household characteristics (age, sex, economic status, ethnicity and nationality) may not be available to the housing officer or may be refused by the tenant.

The totals for 'new lettings' used in this data differs from other published totals for new lettings, as this data does not use imputed data for ethnicity and excludes those where ethnicity was refused. Information on lettings of social housing in England is provided by local authorities and private registered providers (previously known as housing associations). Information about the tenancy, the tenants and the property is collected by data providers each time there is a new letting of a social housing property.

Imputation:

When data is missing it can be imputed, that is replaced with an estimated value based on other available information. For this measure data at the local authority level on age and on income have been imputed, whereas other data including all data at the national and regional level have not been imputed.

Weighting:

Weighting is used to adjust the results of a survey to make them representative of the population and improve their accuracy.

For example, a survey which contains 25% females and 75% males will not accurately reflect the views of the general population which we know is around 50% male and 50% female.

Data here has been weighted at the national level, but not at the regional or local authority area level. Weights are calculated for groups of similar local authorities, where these groups are defined by the Office of National Statistics UK area classifications, and they are based on the comparison with data from another Department for Communities and Local Government source on social housing data (Local Authority Housing Statistics).

For further information on the weighting and imputation methodologies, please see the Quality Report (PDF opens in a new window or tab).

Suppression rules and disclosure control

Data has been suppressed if the number of new lettings in a category (for example ethnicity and income bracket) is either 1 or 2. This is mainly to avoid possible risk of disclosure and is consistent with CORE confidentiality and disclosure practices. CORE records information anonymously and maintains absolute confidentiality on tenants’ circumstances. Access to record level information is only available through a licence agreement. Further information on CORE disclosure practices can be found on the Department for Communities and Local Government’s document collection on Social housing lettings on GOV.UK.

Rounding

Data on counts has been rounded to the nearest whole number. Data on percentages has been rounded to 1 decimal place.

Related publications

Social housing lettings in England: April 2015 to March 2016 (revised 30 March 2017)

Quality and methodology information

8. Data sources

Source

Social housing lettings statistics

Type of data

Administrative data

Type of statistic

National Statistics

Publisher

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Publication frequency

Yearly

Purpose of data source

Continuous Recording of Lettings and Sales in Social Housing in England (CORE) provides valuable information about new social housing lettings, sales, tenants and buyers across England.

This national information is used by government bodies and organisations to inform social housing funding, regulatory and housing policy decisions.

9. Download the data

New Social Housing Lettings - Spreadsheet (csv) 261 KB

This file contains the following: ethnicity, income, geography, age, value, numerator, population estimate

Publication release date: 10 October 2017

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From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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