New social housing lettings

Published 5 October 2018

Last updated 14 May 2019 - see all updates

Contents

1. Main facts and figures

• in 2016/17, there were 318,150 new social housing lettings in England where the ethnicity of the main tenant was known
• around 79% of new social housing lettings were to White British households, unchanged from 2015/16
• out of all the ethnic groups, White Gypsy or Irish Traveller households had the fewest new social housing lettings
• in 2016/17, Asian households made up 4.5% of new social housing lettings, and 7.7% of the overall population of England in 2016 – households from the Indian and Chinese ethnic groups were particularly under-represented in new social housing lettings
• Black households made up 7.1% of new social housing lettings, and 3.4% of the overall population of England – households from the Black African and Black Caribbean ethnic groups were particularly over-represented in new social housing lettings

Things you need to know

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

This data relates to new, permanent lettings of social housing. It excludes lettings where a tenant starts a new tenancy agreement but stays in the same property (after their previous tenancy agreement ended).

The data only includes lettings where the tenant reported their ethnicity. This means that figures for new lettings published here may be different from other published figures on social housing.

There were 334,602 new lettings in 2016/17. The ethnicity of the main tenant was known for 318,150 of these new lettings (95.1%), and refused or missing for 16,452 lettings (4.9%).

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.

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, 2 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.

43% of households refused to disclose their income, so the data broken down by income should be treated with caution.

In addition, a small proportion (0.7%) of new lettings refused to provide the age of the main tenant.

The raw data has been taken from the Continuous Recording of Lettings and Sales in Social Housing (CORE) system. The statistics presented on this page have not been published separately by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

What the data measures

This data measures access to social housing using the number of new social housing lettings in England in 2016/17, broken down by ethnic group.

The information relates to households. 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.

The data uses the ethnicity of the main tenant. For a single tenancy, this is the named tenant.

For a joint tenancy, the main tenant is:

• the economically active or working person
• the oldest person, if both tenants are working or both are not working

These figures are drawn from the Continuous Recording of Lettings and Sales in Social Housing (CORE) system in 2016/17. CORE is a complete census of new social housing lettings, which records:

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

To provide additional context, the percentage of new social housing lettings by ethnic group has been compared with population estimates (2016) published by ONS. You can see these population estimates if you download the data.

Where data is broken down by age, the age of the household’s main tenant is used. The minimum age for a main tenant of social housing is 16 years. As a result, the population estimates only include those in the population who are aged 16 years and over.

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 2 categories have been used:

• White – White ethnic groups (including White British and White ethnic minorities)
• Other – all other ethnic minorities

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. By ethnicity

• Location: England
• Time period: 2016/17
• Source: Social housing lettings in England: April 2016 to March 2017

Percentage and number of new social housing lettings that are from each ethnic group, compared with the overall population by ethnicity

Ethnicity	%	Social housing lettings	Population (2016 estimate)
Asian	4.5	14,313	7.7
Bangladeshi	0.9	2,830	0.8
Chinese	0.1	477	0.8
Indian	0.7	2,371	2.7
Pakistani	1.5	4,765	1.9
Asian other	1.2	3,870	1.6
Black	7.1	22,530	3.4
Black African	3.8	12,059	1.7
Black Caribbean	2.4	7,529	1.2
Black other	0.9	2,942	0.5
Mixed	3.0	9,418	1.8
Mixed White/Asian	0.4	1,165	0.5
Mixed White/Black African	0.5	1,555	0.2
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	1.4	4,510	0.7
Mixed other	0.7	2,188	0.4
White	83.5	265,736	86.1
White British	78.9	251,093	80.2
White Irish	0.6	1,786	1.0
White Gypsy/Traveller	0.1	429	0.1
White other	3.9	12,428	4.8
Other	1.9	6,153	1.0
Arab	0.6	1,766	0.4
Any other	1.4	4,387	0.6

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Summary of New social housing lettings By ethnicity Summary

This data shows that:

• in 2016/17, there were 318,150 new social housing lettings in where the ethnicity of the main tenant was known (95% of the total)
• out of the specific ethnic groups, White British households had the most new social housing lettings, with around 250,000 (or 78.9% of all new lettings) – by comparison, White British households accounted for 80.2% of the population of England
• White Gypsy or Irish Traveller households had the least new social housing lettings, with 429 lettings (or 0.1% of all new lettings) – by comparison, White Gypsy or Irish Traveller households accounted for 0.1% of the population of England
• Asian households were under-represented in new social housing lettings; households from the Chinese ethnic group accounted for 0.1% of new social housing lettings and 0.8% of the general population, and those from the Indian ethnic group accounted for 0.7% of new social housing lettings and 2.7% of the general population
• Black households were over-represented in new social housing lettings; Black African households accounted for 3.8% of new social housing lettings and 1.7% of the general population, and Black Caribbean households accounted for 2.4% of new social housing lettings and 1.2% of the general population
• Asian households were similarly under-represented in new social housing lettings in 2015/16, and Black households were similarly over-represented

3. By ethnicity and income

• Location: England
• Time period: 2016/17
• Source: Social housing lettings in England: April 2016 to March 2017

Percentage and number of new social housing lettings by ethnicity and weekly household 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	22.5	1,955	24.8	2,153	20.8	1,805	16.2	1,408	8.5	741	4.5	387	2.6	225
Bangladeshi	14.8	228	22.1	341	23.5	363	18.6	287	10.7	165	6.3	97	3.9	60
Chinese	18.4	46	30.9	77	21.7	54	16.1	40	9.0	22	2.1	5	1.9	5
Indian	24.6	362	28.1	413	21.7	318	13.4	197	7.3	108	2.5	36	2.4	35
Pakistani	22.6	702	24.0	747	20.8	648	17.1	530	8.7	272	4.4	138	2.3	72
Asian other	26.8	618	24.9	575	18.3	422	15.3	353	7.6	175	4.8	110	2.3	53
Black	26.8	3,635	22.2	3,006	20.1	2,722	14.7	1,995	8.6	1,172	4.0	540	3.6	487
Black African	25.5	1,923	20.0	1,511	20.3	1,532	15.4	1,165	9.7	731	4.7	358	4.4	329
Black Caribbean	29.8	1,341	25.7	1,155	19.7	885	13.0	585	6.8	306	2.7	120	2.3	105
Black other	24.6	371	22.5	340	20.2	305	16.3	246	8.9	135	4.0	61	3.6	54
Mixed	27.9	1,625	25.3	1,476	20.4	1,187	13.4	778	6.6	382	3.5	205	2.9	172
Mixed White/Asian	28.1	213	29.1	221	20.9	159	12.7	97	5.4	41	2.2	17	1.6	12
Mixed White/Black African	23.8	228	24.7	236	18.3	175	15.4	148	8.6	82	5.3	51	3.9	37
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	32.3	908	25.4	716	19.9	561	12.3	347	5.4	153	2.3	65	2.3	65
Mixed other	21.3	275	23.4	302	22.6	292	14.5	187	8.2	105	5.6	72	4.5	58
White	18.7	27,903	27.7	41,391	23.4	34,990	14.7	21,983	7.7	11,448	4.4	6,648	3.5	5,194
White British	19.1	26,985	28.3	39,860	23.4	32,997	14.4	20,280	7.3	10,350	4.1	5,826	3.3	4,622
White Irish	21.9	220	33.0	332	23.0	231	12.1	121	4.0	40	3.4	34	2.5	25
White Gypsy/Traveller	17.3	40	28.9	66	26.3	60	15.2	35	5.7	13	3.8	9	2.9	7
White other	8.9	658	15.3	1,134	23.0	1,702	20.9	1,547	14.1	1,045	10.5	779	7.3	540
Other	29.8	1,129	24.8	940	20.0	757	12.6	476	6.8	258	3.9	147	2.0	77
Arab	36.2	392	24.1	261	18.2	198	11.4	124	5.7	62	3.0	33	1.3	14
Any other	27.3	737	25.1	679	20.7	560	13.0	352	7.3	196	4.2	114	2.3	63

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Summary of New social housing lettings By ethnicity and income Summary

This data shows that:

• in 2016/17, the ethnic groups with the highest percentage of households earning less than £200 per week were Arab, and Mixed White and Black Caribbean, at 60.3% and 57.7% respectively
• the Other White ethnic group had the lowest percentage of households earning less than £200 per week, at 24.2%
• 17.8% of households from the Other White ethnic group earned more than £500 per week, the highest percentage for any ethnic group within this income bracket
• 3.8% of Mixed White and Asian households earned more than £500 per week, the lowest percentage for any ethnic group
• All of the above points are unchanged from 2015/16

4. By ethnicity and area

• Location: England
• Time period: 2016/17
• Source: Social housing lettings in England: April 2016 to March 2017

Percentage of new social housing lettings that are from each ethnic group, compared with the overall population by ethnicity, by area

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 By ethnicity and area Summary

This data shows that:

• in all regions of England, compared with the latest population estimates, Black households were over-represented in new social housing lettings (they made up a greater percentage of new social housing lettings than they did the general population), and Asian households were under-represented – this was also the case in 2015/16
• in London, Black Caribbean households were over-represented in new social housing lettings (accounting for 11.2% of new lettings, compared with 4.3% of the population), as were Black African households (15.2% of lettings, compared with 6.6% of the population)
• in London, White British households were under-represented in new social housing lettings (accounting for 37.0% of new lettings, compared with 45.4% of the population), as were Other White households (7.5% of lettings, compared with 13.2% of the population) and Asian Indian households (2.0% of lettings, compared with 6.9% of the population)

5. By ethnicity and local authority

• Location: England
• Time period: 2016/17
• Source: Social housing lettings in England: April 2016 to March 2017

Percentage of new social housing lettings that are from each ethnic group, compared with the overall population by ethnicity, by local authority

	White			Other than White
Local authority	White %	White Social housing lettings	White Population estimate (2016)	Other than White %	Other than White Social housing lettings	Other than White Population estimate (2016)
Hartlepool	97.8	1,254	97.9	2.2	28	2.1
Middlesbrough	92.6	1,641	89.3	7.4	132	10.7
Redcar and Cleveland	97.6	1,601	98.7	2.4	39	1.3
Stockton-on-Tees	96.1	1,536	95.0	3.9	62	5.0
Darlington	96.2	868	96.6	3.8	34	3.4
Halton	98.3	1,418	98.0	1.7	25	2.0
Warrington	94.0	1,156	96.2	6.0	74	3.8
Blackburn with Darwen	84.6	1,202	71.2	15.4	218	28.8
Blackpool	97.3	970	96.9	2.7	27	3.1
Kingston upon Hull, City of	94.1	3,213	94.5	5.9	200	5.5
East Riding of Yorkshire	98.4	979	98.3	1.6	16	1.7
North East Lincolnshire	98.1	1,108	97.5	1.9	22	2.5
North Lincolnshire	97.5	1,114	96.4	2.5	28	3.6
York	97.0	701	94.7	3.0	22	5.3
Derby	80.9	1,540	81.6	19.1	363	18.4
Leicester	59.0	1,303	50.8	41.0	904	49.2
Rutland	97.6	165	97.2	2.4	4	2.8
Nottingham	71.6	2,071	72.3	28.4	822	27.7
Herefordshire, County of	95.1	959	98.3	4.9	49	1.7
Telford and Wrekin	93.5	1,265	93.3	6.5	88	6.7
Stoke-on-Trent	91.3	1,383	89.7	8.7	131	10.3
Bath and North East Somerset	92.7	972	94.6	7.3	76	5.4
Bristol, City of	71.8	2,110	84.9	28.2	830	15.1
North Somerset	96.5	827	97.5	3.5	30	2.5
South Gloucestershire	90.7	1,063	95.2	9.3	109	4.8
Plymouth	94.1	1,557	96.3	5.9	97	3.7
Torbay	97.4	573	97.7	2.6	15	2.3
Bournemouth	93.1	540	92.3	6.9	40	7.7
Poole	96.6	397	96.1	3.4	14	3.9
Swindon	88.2	1,168	90.5	11.8	156	9.5
Peterborough	83.9	1,046	84.0	16.1	200	16.0
Luton	56.7	489	57.3	43.3	374	42.7
Southend-on-Sea	92.5	626	92.1	7.5	51	7.9
Thurrock	85.6	733	87.3	14.4	123	12.7
Medway	90.3	976	89.9	9.7	105	10.1
Bracknell Forest	89.6	483	91.2	10.4	56	8.8
West Berkshire	94.5	690	95.2	5.5	40	4.8
Reading	72.8	370	76.4	27.2	138	23.6
Slough	59.8	283	47.5	40.2	190	52.5
Windsor and Maidenhead	89.8	379	86.8	10.2	43	13.2
Wokingham	84.7	293	89.2	15.3	53	10.8
Milton Keynes	75.3	703	81.9	24.7	231	18.1
Brighton and Hove	85.0	892	89.1	15.0	158	10.9
Portsmouth	86.9	572	89.2	13.1	86	10.8
Southampton	89.2	1,727	86.5	10.8	210	13.5
Isle of Wight	99.0	610	97.6	1.0	6	2.4
County Durham	98.9	4,859	98.2	1.1	56	1.8
Cheshire East	96.6	1,990	96.9	3.4	70	3.1
Cheshire West and Chester	97.5	1,987	97.6	2.5	50	2.4
Shropshire	97.7	1,844	98.1	2.3	44	1.9
Cornwall	98.3	2,499	98.3	1.7	43	1.7
Isles of Scilly		3	98.3			1.7
Wiltshire	95.2	2,018	96.8	4.8	102	3.2
Bedford	72.0	617	81.8	28.0	240	18.2
Central Bedfordshire	93.3	1,076	94.2	6.7	77	5.8
Northumberland	98.9	2,531	98.5	1.1	28	1.5
Aylesbury Vale	82.4	674	90.3	17.6	144	9.7
Chiltern	86.6	271	92.2	13.4	42	7.8
South Buckinghamshire	88.1	111	84.9	11.9	15	15.1
Wycombe	78.1	475	82.7	21.9	133	17.3
Cambridge	84.8	644	82.5	15.2	115	17.5
East Cambridgeshire	95.5	404	96.5	4.5	19	3.5
Fenland	96.3	526	97.4	3.7	20	2.6
Huntingdonshire	94.3	613	95.1	5.7	37	4.9
South Cambridgeshire	93.1	552	93.7	6.9	41	6.3
Allerdale	99.1	991	99.0	0.9	9	1.0
Barrow-in-Furness		314	98.4			1.6
Carlisle	98.8	950	98.2	1.2	12	1.8
Copeland	98.5	576	98.5	1.5	9	1.5
Eden	98.1	314	99.0	1.9	6	1.0
South Lakeland	97.4	445	98.5	2.6	12	1.5
Amber Valley	97.4	626	98.2	2.6	17	1.8
Bolsover	97.3	466	98.2	2.7	13	1.8
Chesterfield	96.6	1,125	96.7	3.4	39	3.3
Derbyshire Dales	96.3	392	98.6	3.7	15	1.4
Erewash	97.5	460	97.2	2.5	12	2.8
High Peak	98.2	447	98.0	1.8	8	2.0
North East Derbyshire	98.4	750	98.2	1.6	12	1.8
South Derbyshire	94.0	499	95.9	6.0	32	4.1
East Devon	97.6	443	98.5	2.4	11	1.5
Exeter	92.8	761	93.4	7.2	59	6.6
Mid Devon	100.0	292	98.7	0.0	0	1.3
North Devon		398	98.1			1.9
South Hampshire	98.7	368	98.5	1.3	5	1.5
Teignbridge	96.0	459	98.4	4.0	19	1.6
Torridge		227	98.8			1.2
West Devon		165	98.6			1.4
Christchurch		138	97.8			2.2
East Dorset	97.5	194	98.4	2.5	5	1.6
North Dorset	98.8	321	97.8	1.2	4	2.2
Purbeck	98.0	145	98.7	2.0	3	1.3
West Dorset	97.5	499	98.2	2.5	13	1.8
Weymouth and Portland	98.4	361	97.6	1.6	6	2.4
Eastbourne	95.4	356	94.3	4.6	17	5.7
Hastings	94.2	438	94.1	5.8	27	5.9
Lewes	96.9	348	96.7	3.1	11	3.3
Rother	97.5	355	97.2	2.5	9	2.8
Wealden	94.7	305	97.6	5.3	17	2.4
Basildon	93.7	987	93.2	6.3	66	6.8
Braintree	96.5	742	96.9	3.5	27	3.1
Brentwood	91.0	191	93.8	9.0	19	6.2
Castle Point		104	97.0			3.0
Chelmsford	93.4	605	94.2	6.6	43	5.8
Colchester	92.8	667	92.2	7.2	52	7.8
Epping Forest	91.6	87	90.9	8.4	8	9.1
Harlow	90.4	425	89.8	9.6	45	10.2
Maldon		180	98.2			1.8
Rochford		130	97.3			2.7
Tendring	98.3	175	97.7	1.7	3	2.3
Uttlesford	94.5	395	96.8	5.5	23	3.2
Cheltenham	93.4	556	94.4	6.6	39	5.6
Cotswold	95.7	515	97.9	4.3	23	2.1
Forest of Dean	97.3	439	98.6	2.7	12	1.4
Gloucester	86.5	626	90.2	13.5	98	9.8
Stroud	96.6	287	98.1	3.4	10	1.9
Tewkesbury	96.1	417	97.7	3.9	17	2.3
Basingstoke and Deane	92.6	701	93.4	7.4	56	6.6
East Hampshire	93.8	472	96.7	6.2	31	3.3
Eastleigh	94.3	430	95.0	5.7	26	5.0
Fareham	97.2	275	97.0	2.8	8	3.0
Gosport	93.9	414	96.9	6.1	27	3.1
Hart	93.7	236	95.1	6.3	16	4.9
Havant	81.0	286	97.3	19.0	67	2.7
New Forest	98.5	394	97.8	1.5	6	2.2
Rushmoor	90.7	273	84.9	9.3	28	15.1
Test Valley	95.9	568	96.1	4.1	24	3.9
Winchester	95.6	566	95.8	4.4	26	4.2
Broxbourne	88.4	199	90.9	11.6	26	9.1
Dacorum	90.9	673	91.3	9.1	67	8.7
Hertsmere	84.0	337	85.6	16.0	64	14.4
North Hertfordshire	86.6	453	90.0	13.4	70	10.0
Three Rivers	93.0	185	86.5	7.0	14	13.5
Watford	71.8	272	73.5	28.2	107	26.5
Ashford	96.5	411	94.0	3.5	15	6.0
Canterbury	96.1	370	93.3	3.9	15	6.7
Dartford	85.2	387	88.4	14.8	67	11.6
Dover	96.8	517	96.9	3.2	17	3.1
Gravesham	83.5	374	83.6	16.5	74	16.4
Maidstone	90.9	687	94.4	9.1	69	5.6
Sevenoaks	96.0	309	96.1	4.0	13	3.9
Shepway	96.1	344	94.8	3.9	14	5.2
Swale	97.5	636	96.8	2.5	16	3.2
Thanet	97.0	643	95.8	3.0	20	4.2
Tonbridge and Malling	94.9	467	96.3	5.1	25	3.7
Tunbridge Wells	92.5	540	95.2	7.5	44	4.8
Burnley	86.5	728	88.9	13.5	114	11.1
Chorley	96.8	547	97.1	3.2	18	2.9
Fylde	98.8	247	97.6	1.2	3	2.4
Hyndburn	94.8	543	89.2	5.2	30	10.8
Lancaster	97.2	932	95.7	2.8	27	4.3
Pendle	91.4	434	82.0	8.6	41	18.0
Preston	89.0	1,019	81.1	11.0	126	18.9
Ribble Valley	98.6	219	98.0	1.4	3	2.0
Rossendale	97.2	452	94.6	2.8	13	5.4
South Ribble	94.3	500	97.3	5.7	30	2.7
West Lancashire	97.5	663	98.2	2.5	17	1.8
Wyre	98.2	445	98.3	1.8	8	1.7
Blaby	95.3	388	91.4	4.7	19	8.6
Charnwood	93.3	694	87.6	6.7	50	12.4
Harborough	97.1	329	95.5	2.9	10	4.5
Hinckley and Bosworth	96.5	385	96.7	3.5	14	3.3
Melton	98.5	264	98.0	1.5	4	2.0
North West Leicestershire	95.1	627	97.7	4.9	32	2.3
Oadby and Wigston	88.2	172	73.4	11.8	23	26.6
Boston	94.5	579	97.0	5.5	34	3.0
East Lindsey	98.6	867	98.6	1.4	12	1.4
Lincoln	96.7	1,073	95.6	3.3	37	4.4
North Kesteven	99.3	433	98.3	0.7	3	1.7
South Holland	97.8	391	98.0	2.2	9	2.0
South Kesteven	98.4	619	97.5	1.6	10	2.5
West Lindsey	98.4	607	98.3	1.6	10	1.7
Breckland	97.2	582	97.6	2.8	17	2.4
Broadland	97.9	514	97.9	2.1	11	2.1
Great Yarmouth	98.5	509	97.1	1.5	8	2.9
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	98.5	679	97.5	1.5	10	2.5
North Norfolk		437	98.7			1.3
Norwich	93.1	1,081	91.3	6.9	80	8.7
South Norfolk	95.3	592	97.8	4.7	29	2.2
Corby	94.0	250	95.9	6.0	16	4.1
Daventry	95.1	372	96.7	4.9	19	3.3
East Northamptonshire	94.9	486	96.9	5.1	26	3.1
Kettering	95.2	473	94.3	4.8	24	5.7
Northampton	84.0	792	85.5	16.0	151	14.5
South Northamptonshire	98.1	306	97.2	1.9	6	2.8
Wellingborough	83.8	373	87.9	16.2	72	12.1
Craven	98.7	225	97.9	1.3	3	2.1
Hambleton	98.2	548	98.5	1.8	10	1.5
Harrogate	95.5	489	96.7	4.5	23	3.3
Richmondshire	98.1	310	95.7	1.9	6	4.3
Ryedale	98.1	310	98.8	1.9	6	1.2
Scarborough	98.3	747	97.8	1.7	13	2.2
Selby	96.7	413	98.6	3.3	14	1.4
Ashfield	96.8	901	97.9	3.2	30	2.1
Bassetlaw	97.5	732	97.5	2.5	19	2.5
Broxtowe	94.6	470	93.2	5.4	27	6.8
Gedling	86.2	376	93.7	13.8	60	6.3
Mansfield	97.3	994	97.5	2.7	28	2.5
Newark and Sherwood	96.4	698	97.7	3.6	26	2.3
Rushcliffe	91.8	293	93.6	8.2	26	6.4
Cherwell	91.6	567	92.8	8.4	52	7.2
Oxford	80.1	470	77.9	19.9	117	22.1
South Oxfordshire	93.3	403	96.3	6.7	29	3.7
Vale of White Horse	91.2	650	95.2	8.8	63	4.8
West Oxfordshire	95.8	387	97.1	4.2	17	2.9
Mendip	97.6	447	98.1	2.4	11	1.9
Sedgemoor	97.8	615	98.5	2.2	14	1.5
South Somerset	98.3	987	98.2	1.7	17	1.8
Taunton Deane	98.2	974	97.4	1.8	18	2.6
West Somerset	100.0	180	98.8	0.0	0	1.2
Cannock Chase	97.5	552	97.9	2.5	14	2.1
East Staffordshire	89.4	600	91.6	10.6	71	8.4
Lichfield	95.7	419	97.0	4.3	19	3.0
Newcastle-under-Lyme	96.1	733	95.1	3.9	30	4.9
South Staffordshire	96.9	562	96.2	3.1	18	3.8
Stafford	94.9	978	95.2	5.1	53	4.8
Staffordshire Moorlands	96.8	334	98.8	3.2	11	1.2
Tamworth	98.4	374	97.6	1.6	6	2.4
Babergh	97.1	395	98.0	2.9	12	2.0
Forest Heath	93.4	239	92.7	6.6	17	7.3
Ipswich	84.1	891	89.7	15.9	168	10.3
Mid Suffolk	97.4	406	98.1	2.6	11	1.9
St Edmundsbury	96.8	685	96.3	3.2	23	3.7
Suffolk Coastal	97.6	612	96.9	2.4	15	3.1
Waveney	95.0	479	97.9	5.0	25	2.1
Elmbridge	88.2	231	90.7	11.8	31	9.3
Epsom and Ewell	74.4	125	86.1	25.6	43	13.9
Guildford	90.3	438	91.1	9.7	47	8.9
Mole Valley	95.2	258	95.3	4.8	13	4.7
Reigate and Banstead	84.0	471	91.1	16.0	90	8.9
Runnymede	92.4	232	89.2	7.6	19	10.8
Spelthorne	89.5	248	87.8	10.5	29	12.2
Surrey Heath	89.9	186	90.6	10.1	21	9.4
Tandridge	94.4	220	94.1	5.6	13	5.9
Waverley	94.2	327	96.1	5.8	20	3.9
Woking	79.9	294	84.6	20.1	74	15.4
North Warwickshire	98.0	250	98.1	2.0	5	1.9
Nuneaton and Bedworth	95.3	703	91.8	4.7	35	8.2
Rugby	88.6	351	90.9	11.4	45	9.1
Stratford-on-Avon	96.6	651	97.6	3.4	23	2.4
Warwick	92.5	811	89.5	7.5	66	10.5
Adur	91.9	113	96.1	8.1	10	3.9
Arun	93.3	402	97.2	6.7	29	2.8
Chichester	93.7	492	97.0	6.3	33	3.0
Crawley	73.4	502	81.0	26.6	182	19.0
Horsham	94.1	399	96.3	5.9	25	3.7
Mid Sussex	91.4	414	95.3	8.6	39	4.7
Worthing	95.0	285	94.3	5.0	15	5.7
Bromsgrove	95.8	364	96.0	4.2	16	4.0
Malvern Hills	97.9	501	97.9	2.1	11	2.1
Redditch	94.2	504	93.0	5.8	31	7.0
Worcester	94.5	726	94.1	5.5	42	5.9
Wychavon	98.0	754	98.0	2.0	15	2.0
Wyre Forest	97.6	558	97.5	2.4	14	2.5
St Albans	79.3	315	89.0	20.7	82	11.0
Welwyn Hatfield	87.8	645	84.6	12.2	90	15.4
East Hertfordshire	91.9	546	95.7	8.1	48	4.3
Stevenage	88.6	271	88.6	11.4	35	11.4
Bolton	85.5	2,195	83.2	14.5	371	16.8
Bury	88.0	967	90.1	12.0	132	9.9
Manchester	60.1	2,390	68.0	39.9	1,590	32.0
Oldham	78.4	1,443	79.9	21.6	398	20.1
Rochdale	81.5	1,813	83.3	18.5	412	16.7
Salford	84.0	2,183	90.6	16.0	415	9.4
Stockport	92.1	970	92.7	7.9	83	7.3
Tameside	89.5	1,721	91.8	10.5	202	8.2
Trafford	80.8	907	86.5	19.2	215	13.5
Wigan	94.8	1,694	97.5	5.2	93	2.5
Knowsley	97.5	1,411	97.5	2.5	36	2.5
Liverpool	82.8	4,500	89.4	17.2	935	10.6
St. Helens	98.2	1,811	98.2	1.8	34	1.8
Sefton	95.8	1,655	97.7	4.2	73	2.3
Wirral	97.3	2,346	97.3	2.7	65	2.7
Barnsley	96.6	1,780	98.0	3.4	62	2.0
Doncaster	92.9	1,924	95.6	7.1	147	4.4
Rotherham	92.3	2,424	94.2	7.7	201	5.8
Sheffield	76.1	4,113	84.9	23.9	1,292	15.1
Newcastle upon Tyne	81.9	2,834	86.4	18.1	628	13.6
North Tyneside	95.9	1,719	96.9	4.1	74	3.1
South Tyneside	97.3	1,805	96.2	2.7	50	3.8
Sunderland	97.5	3,351	96.1	2.5	85	3.9
Birmingham	51.7	4,733	60.0	48.3	4,424	40.0
Coventry	71.4	1,695	74.4	28.6	680	25.6
Dudley	83.4	2,000	91.0	16.6	397	9.0
Sandwell	70.2	1,846	71.3	29.8	783	28.7
Solihull	87.1	606	89.8	12.9	90	10.2
Walsall	78.9	2,107	80.2	21.1	562	19.8
Wolverhampton	67.5	1,480	68.9	32.5	714	31.1
Bradford	76.3	3,408	70.0	23.7	1,057	30.0
Calderdale	94.3	1,301	90.7	5.7	78	9.3
Kirklees	69.4	1,573	80.7	30.6	695	19.3
Leeds	78.2	5,441	86.0	21.8	1,520	14.0
Wakefield	93.8	2,777	95.8	6.2	184	4.2
Gateshead	93.7	2,156	96.4	6.3	144	3.6
City of London	43.8	14	65.2	56.2	18	34.8
Barking and Dagenham	56.1	437	60.6	43.9	342	39.4
Barnet	51.2	344	64.5	48.8	328	35.5
Bexley	73.7	523	82.6	26.3	187	17.4
Brent	30.9	293	37.1	69.1	655	62.9
Bromley	72.4	708	85.1	27.6	270	14.9
Camden	50.3	555	66.6	49.7	548	33.4
Croydon	36.2	496	56.8	63.8	873	43.2
Ealing	35.1	350	50.1	64.9	648	49.9
Enfield	42.0	300	62.5	58.0	415	37.5
Greenwich	52.3	449	63.9	47.7	410	36.1
Hackney	49.5	863	56.3	50.5	882	43.7
Hammersmith and Fulham	49.0	490	68.1	51.0	511	31.9
Haringey	41.5	358	61.8	58.5	505	38.2
Harrow	36.0	127	43.3	64.0	226	56.7
Havering	83.7	518	88.3	16.3	101	11.7
Hillingdon	57.6	378	61.6	42.4	278	38.4
Hounslow	48.1	384	52.2	51.9	414	47.8
Islington	50.6	644	67.9	49.4	628	32.1
Kensington and Chelsea	44.1	331	70.5	55.9	419	29.5
Kingston upon Thames	68.4	236	75.0	31.6	109	25.0
Lambeth	34.6	484	58.6	65.4	916	41.4
Lewisham	36.7	460	55.6	63.3	793	44.4
Merton	47.6	210	65.6	52.4	231	34.4
Newham	23.3	173	30.2	76.7	568	69.8
Redbridge	45.8	175	43.9	54.2	207	56.1
Richmond upon Thames	73.5	363	86.4	26.5	131	13.6
Southwark	38.9	642	55.7	61.1	1,010	44.3
Sutton	75.2	410	79.6	24.8	135	20.4
Tower Hamlets	30.6	639	47.8	69.4	1,449	52.2
Waltham Forest	34.0	388	54.0	66.0	753	46.0
Wandsworth	46.8	375	71.5	53.2	427	28.5
Westminster	54.5	475	62.8	45.5	396	37.2

Data withheld to protect confidentiality

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

This data shows that:

• most local authorities (296 out of 326 where data was available) provided a higher number of social housing lettings to White households than to households from other ethnic groups
• all local authorities that let more new social housing to ethnic minority households than White households were in London
• the 10 local authorities with the largest over-representation of social housing for White households were all outside London (that is, White households made up a larger percentage of new social housing lettings than they did the general population)
• the 10 local authorities with the largest under-representation of social housing for White households were all within London (that is, White households made up a smaller percentage of new social housing lettings than they did the general population)
• all of the points above are unchanged from 2015/16

6. By ethnicity and age group

• Location: England
• Time period: 2016/17
• Source: Social housing lettings in England: April 2016 to March 2017

Percentage of new social housing lettings that are from each ethnic group, by age group

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	1.5	12.7	15.0	33.0	19.8	8.2	5.6	2.6	1.4
Bangladeshi	0.6	13.3	18.1	34.5	21.0	7.1	3.0	1.4	1.1
Chinese	1.9	5.8	8.7	26.8	18.5	14.1	14.1	5.7	4.3
Indian	1.2	9.9	11.7	28.6	20.0	11.0	9.9	4.9	2.8
Pakistani	1.7	14.4	17.7	36.4	17.2	6.7	3.7	1.4	0.7
Asian other	2.2	12.8	12.3	31.2	22.3	8.7	6.2	3.0	1.3
Black	1.4	17.8	14.6	27.7	19.7	11.5	4.1	2.0	1.3
Black African	1.0	16.3	15.4	30.5	22.0	9.6	3.3	1.3	0.5
Black Caribbean	1.8	20.5	13.2	23.1	15.7	14.4	5.3	3.3	2.7
Black other	1.4	17.0	14.7	28.0	20.5	12.1	3.7	1.9	0.8
Mixed	3.5	28.4	17.3	25.2	13.2	7.0	3.3	1.6	0.6
Mixed White/Asian	4.8	25.8	16.5	26.2	13.7	7.5	3.6	1.4	0.6
Mixed White/Black African	2.4	21.4	12.4	27.6	18.5	8.1	5.3	3.3	0.9
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	4.0	36.0	20.1	21.7	9.4	5.8	1.6	0.9	0.4
Mixed other	2.4	18.9	15.3	30.4	16.9	8.4	5.1	2.0	0.6
White	1.7	19.6	13.7	18.8	13.6	12.3	10.1	5.8	4.3
White British	1.8	20.2	13.7	18.0	13.3	12.3	10.3	5.9	4.5
White Irish	0.5	11.3	8.5	15.9	14.9	15.6	15.2	11.6	6.5
White Gypsy/Traveller	2.1	17.0	16.0	28.5	15.3	9.6	6.4	3.6	1.6
White other	0.8	9.8	14.6	35.1	18.9	11.3	6.7	1.9	0.9
Other	2.5	14.9	13.7	31.9	19.6	9.5	4.8	2.1	1.1
Arab	3.2	15.2	14.3	34.1	19.0	8.2	3.5	1.6	0.9
Any other	2.2	14.8	13.5	31.0	19.8	9.9	5.4	2.3	1.2

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Summary of New social housing lettings By ethnicity and age group Summary

This data shows that:

• the Mixed White and Black Caribbean ethnic group had the highest percentage of new lettings among the youngest households – 40.0% of lettings within that ethnic group went to those aged 16 to 24 years
• the White Irish ethnic group had the highest percentage of new lettings among the oldest households – 6.5% of lettings within that ethnic group went to those aged 80 or older
• All of the above points are unchanged from 2015/16

7. Methodology

The 3 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 estimated 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.

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 weighting, see the Quality Report.

Suppression rules and disclosure control

Values of 1 or 2 have been suppressed, mainly to avoid possible risk of people’s identity being revealed. This is consistent with the way the confidentiality of data within the Continuous Recording (CORE) system is maintained.

The Continuous Recording (CORE) system 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 CORE website (PDF opens in a new window or tab) (PDF).

Rounding

Percentages have been rounded to 1 decimal place. Due to rounding, some totals may not add up to 100%.

Quality and methodology information

8. Data sources

Source

Social housing lettings in England: April 2016 to March 2017

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

The aim of Continuous Recording of Lettings and Sales in Social Housing in England (CORE) is to provide information about new social housing lettings, sales, tenants and buyers across England.

This 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: 5 October 2018

Updated: 14 May 2019

full page history

1. 14 May 2019 Some headings have been changed. No data or commentary has been updated.
2. 8 October 2018 Update with latest csv file to match info on page (16/17)
3. 5 October 2018 updated with the latest year's data (for 2016/17)

From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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