Official Statistics

Rural housing statistics

Housing stock, affordability, homelessness, and homebuilding in rural and urban areas.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
28 February 2013
Last updated
22 July 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Rural Housing

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Rural housing - second and empty homes

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Rural housing - residential housing transactions

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Rural housing - additions to affordable housing stock

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Rural housing availability and affordability

PDF, 378 KB, 9 pages

Rural housing - net additions to housing stock

PDF, 134 KB, 2 pages

Rural house building - data sets

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Rural homelessness and temporary accommodation - datasets

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Details

Statistics on the availability and affordability of housing, homelessness, and homebuilding in rural and urban areas.

Metadata

Indicators:

  • percentage of dwellings classed as second homes or empty dwellings
  • house building per 1,000 population
  • net additions to housing stock
  • additions to affordable housing stock
  • residential housing transactions
  • homeless and in priority need per 1,000 households
  • people in temporary accommodation per 1,000 households
  • ratio of lower quartile house prices to lower quartile earnings

Data source: Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities & Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Coverage: England

Rural classification used: Local Authority Rural-Urban Classification

Next release date: tbc

Additional sources:

Defra statistics: rural

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Updates to this page

Published 28 February 2013
Last updated 22 July 2022 + show all updates

  1. Published today, HTML version including additions to affordable housing stock and housing affordability.

  2. Published today, latest rural statistics on additions to affordable housing stock and housing affordability.

  3. Latest rural statistics on housing.

  4. Published today, latest statistics on net additions to housing in rural areas.

  5. Publication of statistics on prevalence of second homes and empty dwellings in rural areas of England.

  6. Latest rural statistics on additions to affordable housing stock.

  7. Published today, latest rural statistics on residential housing transactions.

  8. Published today, latest rural analysis on additions to affordable housing stock.

  9. Published today, latest statistics on housing in rural areas.

  10. Published today, new analysis on additions to affordable housing stock in rural areas.

  11. Published today, latest data on housing availability and affordability in rural areas.

  12. Published today, latest analysis on Rural housing.

  13. Published today, latest analysis on housing affordability in rural areas.

  14. We’ve changed how we’ve organised rural statistics and updated the content following Lord Cameron’s review of rural proofing.

  15. New rural statistics on the net additions to rural housing stock have been published today.

  16. Average private registered provider rents in rural and urban areas published.

  17. The latest rural housing statistics released today.

  18. First published.

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