Housing

This table shows the average House Price/Earnings ratio, which is an important indicator of housing affordability. Ratios are calculated by dividing house price by the median earnings of a borough. The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on a 1 per cent sample of employee jobs. Information on earnings and hours is obtained in confidence from employers. It...

The Integrated Care Systems Housing Profile (ICS Housing Profile) is a resource that aims to support people working in ICSs and ICBs to understand, and work jointly with partners to mitigate and tackle the key housing-related issues that drive poor health in London. The ICS Housing Profile presents key housing data for London at sub-regional ICS geography and borough...

Number of Registered Social Landlord dwellings. Note: from 2002 the figures in this table are not comparable to those in the main dwelling stock table because the stock figures from 2002 in this table include social rent bedspaces as well as social rent self-contained units; the main dwelling stock tables are based on self-contained units only. Data based on data collected...

Number of households waiting for local authority housing. Local authorities sometimes maintain a common waiting list with the Housing Association/s in their district. However, no information is available where a Housing Association maintains a separate waiting list to the local authority. Direct comparisons between authorities' housing waiting lists can be misleading in particular because authorities have different arrangements for checking that...

An Excel workbook containing tables of census data for a range of indicators going back to 1961 where possible. Two versions are offered: the legacy '2011' workbook with data up to 2011, and a '2021' workbook updated to 2021. The 2021 update is a work in progress.

Total affordable housing completions by financial year in each London borough since 1991/92. The information includes both homes funded through programmes directly managed by the GLA (and formerly by the Homes and Communities Agency) and homes funded through other sources and programmes. Affordable housing is the sum of social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent and low cost home ownership. New affordable homes are...

The Greater London Authority's ‘Housing in London’ report sets out the evidence base for the Mayor's housing policies, summarising key patterns and trends across a wide range of topics relevant to housing in the capital. The report is the evidence base for the Mayor’s London Housing Strategy, the latest edition of which was published in May 2018. The 2024...

In 2018-19 the GLA first undertook a Survey of Londoners. At the time it provided vital evidence on Londoners that had never been collected before in such detail.  In 2021-22, the GLA conducted another Survey of Londoners, following the same methodology as the Survey of Londoners 2018-19, an online and paper self-completion survey of adults aged 16 and over in London. The...

This dataset includes information on the planning applications referable to the Mayor between January 2011 - December 2022. Planning applications included within this dataset are those that were considered by the Mayor at stage 2 and stage 3 between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2022. Information such as number of residential units, affordable housing provision, number of storeys and the...

Local authorities' action under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 and 1996 Housing Acts (financial year). Homelessness provision made by local authorities in London, 2004/05 to 2017/18. Source: DCLG P1E Homelessness returns (quarterly) Households "Excludes cases for whom a duty was owed but no accommodation was being secure" are those accepted as owed a main duty, or awaiting a decision on their application,...