Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-13.
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.
Brandon Lewis
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 |
