Thread by @ONS

Using #Census2021 data, we’ve analysed housing characteristics at a dwelling level in England and Wales and compared how this has changed over the last ten years.

There were 26.4 million dwellings in 2021 - compared with 24.4 million in 2011.

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Of all dwellings:

▪️ 24.9 million were in England (up 8.5% since 2011)
▪️ 1.5 million were in Wales (up 6%)

There were also more unoccupied dwellings in England & Wales in 2021. Use our interactive map to explore unoccupied dwellings in your local area.

Semi-detached housing was the most common occupied dwelling in 2021.

Flats, maisonettes and apartments were most common in unoccupied dwellings.

By 2021, “owned outright” overtook “owned with a mortgage or loan” as the most common tenure type of dwellings in England (32.6%).

Outright ownership was the most common tenure in Wales (38%), consistent with 2011.

Privately rented dwellings saw the biggest increase in both England & Wales in 2021.

Privately rented dwellings increased by:

▪️ 3.7 percentage points to 20.4% in England
▪️ 2.9 percentage points to 17.0% in Wales

At a local level, the largest change for outright ownership was Tamworth in West Midlands, (33.3% in 2021, 27.8% in 2011).

City of London saw the largest increase in the percentage of private rented dwellings (48.4% in 2021, 35.9% in 2011). No local authorities had a decrease.