Census Data

Merseyside: Tenure

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000002

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Key Facts

All Residents 1,423,287
Male 690,711
Female 732,574
Households 620,902

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Merseyside. They may not, therefore, be precisely accurate. Age-standardised statistics and population density are not available for aggregated datasets.

Table Codets054
Issued2023-01-06
Unit of MeasureHousehold
Number of Response Options9

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify households in England and Wales by tenure. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

Whether a household owns or rents the accommodation that it occupies.

Owner-occupied accommodation can be:

* owned outright, which is where the household owns all of the accommodation
* with a mortgage or loan
* part-owned on a shared ownership scheme

Rented accommodation can be:

* private rented (for example, rented through a private landlord or letting agent
* social rented through a local council or housing association

This information is not available for household spaces with no usual residents.

Quality Statement

There is evidence of people incorrectly identifying their type of landlord as ”Council or local authority” or “Housing association”. You should add these two categories together when analysing data that uses this variable.

More information at the ONS website

Tenure of household: Total: All households 620,902
Owned 363,481
Owned: Owns outright 195,077
Owned: Owns with a mortgage or loan 168,404
Shared ownership 4,280
Shared ownership: Shared ownership 4,280
Social rented 127,238
Social rented: Rents from council or Local Authority 31,264
Social rented: Other social rented 95,974
Private rented 125,340
Private rented: Private landlord or letting agency 113,527
Private rented: Other private rented 11,813
Lives rent free 563

These values are calculated by adding up the values for census output areas contained within Merseyside. They may, therefore, be slightly inaccurate due to administrative boundaries not precisely aligning with census boundaries.

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