The UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has published the English Housing Survey, its national survey of housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England.
The report confirms that owner-occupation while rates remain unchanged for the sixth year in a row at 64%, they remain below the peak of 71% of 2003. It also reveals that the proportion of households in the private rented sector remains unchanged for the sixth year in a row although the proportion of households in the social rented sector has not changed for more than a decade. The report went on to reveal that, after more than a decade of decline, the proportion of 25-34 year-olds in owner-occupation has increased and there are now almost equal proportions of 25-34 year-olds living in the private rented and owner-occupied sectors.
According to the report, in 2018-19, the private rented sector accounted for 4.6 million or 19% of households compared to around 10% throughout the 1980s and 1990s. While the sector has doubled in size since 2002, the rate has hovered around 19/20% since 2013-14.
Download a copy of the report here: English Housing Survey Headline Report, 2018-19.