Owner Occupation

(asked on 10th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people owned their own home in each year from 1997 until the last year for which records are available.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2015

The numbers of owner occupier households in England, estimated from DCLG's English Housing Survey, are provided in the table below


Number (000s) of owner occupied households, 1997 to 2013-14: England

1997

13,629

1998

13,817

1999

14,091

2000

14,340

2001

14,359

2002

14,559

2003

14,701

2004

14,678

2005

14,791

2006

14,791

2007

14,733

2008

14,628

2008-09

14,621

2009-10

14,525

2010-11

14,450

2011-12

14,388

2012-13

14,337

2013-14

14,319


Source: English Housing Survey https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/469214/2013-14_Section_1_Households_tables_and_figures_FINAL.xlsx

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