Registered providers social housing stock and rents in England - Summary (key facts)
Published 24 October 2023
Applies to England
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Introduction
Registered provider social housing stock in England – outlines the stock and rents units owned and managed by RPs.
These statistics are based on data we collect through the local authority data return and statistical data return. Data from these collections are presented separately in our other statistics.
The data are published in a single briefing note and is supplemented by technical notes and definitions and data quality and methodology notes. These notes provide additional information on our data collection and cleansing processes, key limitations with the data and provide additional context for the statistics presented.
Additional tables are also available with tools allowing for the interrogation of the data.
Coverage
These statistics provide information on social housing owned by all RPs at 31 March each year. Unless otherwise stated, all figures in this document refer to stock located in England. The definitions used within the release are consistent with the way data was collected each year.
National Statistics status
These statistics are drawn from our Private registered provider and Local authority registered provider social housing stock and rents in England statistics which have been designated as National Statistics by the Office for Statistics Regulation. This briefing note provides additional insight, giving the fullest picture of stock and rent information for the social housing provision in England. For more information see the data quality and methodology note.
Key facts
| On 31 March 2023: |
| 4.5m units of social stock owned by RPs |
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| - PRPs own 2.9m units compared to 1.6m units owned by LARPs. |
| 83% of social stock is general needs |
| - Most social stock owned by RPs is general needs low cost rental (including Affordable Rent) (83% or 3.7 million units). Proportionally more LARP owned stock is general needs (93%) than PRP owned stock (78%). |
| 0.8% increase in overall stock since 2022 |
| - This overall increase has been driven by the 25,868 unit increase in Affordable Rent units and the 14,640 unit increase in low cost home ownership units. These increases offset the 6,635 reduction in social rent units. |
| 4.1% increase in average general needs (social rent) net rents since 2022 |
| - England general needs (social rent) average weekly net rents increased by 4.1% (or £3.89) between 2022 and 2023, while supported housing (social rent) average weekly net rents increased by 4.9% (or £4.50). |
Notes
Background
These statistics are based on data gathered in the Local Authority Data Return and the Statistical Data Return survey.
We use the LADR and SDR data extensively as a source of administrative data to inform our operational approach to regulation (see data quality and methodology note for more details). The United Kingdom Statistics Authority encourages public bodies to use administrative data for statistical purposes, as such, we publish these data annually.
Governance of data and statistics at RSH
The statistician responsible for the publication of these statistics is also responsible for the LADR and SDR data collections and the cleansing of incoming data, working with RPs to directly address anomalies within the data submissions and producing the final data set and statistics.
Responsible statistician: Amanda Hall
Queries and feedback: enquiries@rsh.gov.uk or 0300 124 5225.
All data is stored and analysed within secure networks and access to the sector level analysis work undertaken on the data is restricted until after publication (RP level data is accessed by our staff as part of operational work). Further information on the data quality assurance processes we employ is provided in data quality and methodology note.
Contact information submitted by RPs in the Entity Level Information sections of the surveys is redacted within the release. This contact information is not publicly available. We hold no other administrative data that can be made available for use in statistics. However, we publish a range of summary data from other information collected. These are available from our website.
More information and full report
The data is published in a single briefing note and is supplemented by technical notes and definitions and data quality and methodology notes. These notes provide additional information on our data collection and cleansing processes; key limitations with the data and provide additional context for the statistics presented.
Additional tables are also available with tools allowing for the interrogation of the data.