Local authority registered provider social housing stock in England - Summary (key facts)
Published 28 October 2025
Applies to England
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Introduction
Local authority registered provider social housing stock in England – outlines the stock and rents units owned and managed by LARPs.
These statistics are based on data we collect through the local authority data return.
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 and data are also available with tools allowing for the interrogation of the data.
Coverage
These statistics provide information on social housing owned by all LARPs as 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.
Accredited Official Statistics status
These statistics are considered by the United Kingdom Statistics Authority (UKSA) regulatory arm (the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)) to have met the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and public value, and are considered an accredited official statistic (this designation replaces the former National Statistic designation). For more information see the data quality and methodology note.
Key facts
On 31 March 2025:
1.57m units of social stock owned by LARPs
Local authority registered providers (LARPs) reported owning 1,567,512 units of social stock on 31 March 2025 (including low cost rental and low cost home ownership units).
93% of social stock is general needs
The majority of stock owned by LARPs is general needs low cost rental stock (1,455,524 units), and the majority of this (97% or 1,413,524 units) is social rent stock, and the remaining 3% (42,000 units) is Affordable Rent.
0.1% reduction in low cost rental stock
Since 2024, the number of owned social housing units (including LCHO) owned by LARPs has decreased by 2,063 units. A loss of 6,971 social rent units was offset by an increase of 4,643 Affordable Rent and 265 LCHO units.
Social rents increase by 8.2% for general needs and 7.9% for supported housing
Average general needs (social rent) weekly net rents increased by 8.2%, while supported housing (social rent) weekly net rents increased by 7.9% between 2024 and 2025.