OFFICIAL HOMELESSNESS STATISTICS
England - Level of homelessness by local authority A-Z

The table below shows the proportion of households in each local authority who were recognised as newly homeless, with the data being the average for 2006 to 2008.

Local authority Average annual number of households officially recognised as newly homeless (average of 2006 to 2008) Average annual number as a proportion of the total number of households
Adur 115 0.44%
Allerdale 220 0.54%
Alnwick 31 0.22%
Amber Valley 171 0.34%
Arun 144 0.22%
Ashfield 69 0.14%
Ashford 140 0.32%
Aylesbury Vale 88 0.13%
Babergh 60 0.17%
Barking and Dagenham 459 0.68%
Barnet 552 0.42%
Barnsley 228 0.24%
Barrow-in-Furness 243 0.78%
Basildon 344 0.48%
Basingstoke and Deane 62 0.10%
Bassetlaw 96 0.20%
Bath and North East Somerset 173 0.24%
Bedford 369 0.59%
Berwick-upon-Tweed 45 0.38%
Bexley 582 0.64%
Birmingham 4303 1.08%
Blaby 5 0.01%
Blackburn with Darwen 131 0.24%
Blackpool 1188 1.86%
Blyth Valley 95 0.27%
Bolsover 97 0.31%
Bolton 483 0.44%
Boston 95 0.38%
Bournemouth 48 0.07%
Bracknell Forest 127 0.29%
Bradford 1126 0.61%
Braintree 356 0.62%
Breckland 122 0.23%
Brent 983 0.97%
Brentwood 107 0.37%
Bridgnorth 57 0.27%
Brighton and Hove 654 0.57%
Bristol 1896 1.12%
Broadland 154 0.30%
Bromley 747 0.59%
Bromsgrove 133 0.37%
Broxbourne 64 0.18%
Broxtowe 58 0.12%
Burnley 127 0.34%
Bury 339 0.45%
Calderdale 197 0.24%
Cambridge 148 0.34%
Camden 348 0.36%
Cannock Chase 228 0.60%
Canterbury 202 0.34%
Caradon 42 0.12%
Carlisle 281 0.62%
Carrick 111 0.28%
Castle Morpeth 112 0.56%
Castle Point 74 0.21%
Charnwood 160 0.26%
Chelmsford 209 0.31%
Cheltenham 195 0.40%
Cherwell 101 0.18%
Chester 148 0.29%
Chesterfield 352 0.80%
Chester-le-Street 174 0.76%
Chichester 98 0.21%
Chiltern 128 0.36%
Chorley 299 0.70%
Christchurch 11 0.05%
City of London 19 0.48%
Colchester 867 1.28%
Congleton 71 0.19%
Copeland 122 0.41%
Corby 56 0.24%
Cotswold 74 0.21%
Coventry 793 0.63%
Craven 48 0.21%
Crawley 196 0.48%
Crewe and Nantwich 142 0.30%
Croydon 724 0.51%
Dacorum 94 0.16%
Darlington 62 0.14%
Dartford 255 0.71%
Daventry 103 0.33%
Derby 952 0.97%
Derbyshire Dales 116 0.39%
Derwentside 281 0.76%
Doncaster 834 0.69%
Dover 87 0.19%
Dudley 513 0.41%
Durham 254 0.71%
Ealing 1235 1.05%
Easington 150 0.38%
East Cambridgeshire 136 0.43%
East Devon 180 0.32%
East Dorset 50 0.14%
East Hampshire 87 0.20%
East Hertfordshire 89 0.16%
East Lindsey 140 0.24%
East Northamptonshire 137 0.42%
East Riding of Yorkshire 684 0.50%
East Staffordshire 175 0.39%
Eastbourne 275 0.64%
Eastleigh 67 0.14%
Eden 46 0.21%
Ellesmere Port and Neston 129 0.38%
Elmbridge 60 0.12%
Enfield 923 0.82%
Epping Forest 144 0.28%
Epsom and Ewell 11 0.04%
Erewash 126 0.27%
Exeter 203 0.42%
Fareham 59 0.13%
Fenland 136 0.36%
Forest Heath 65 0.27%
Forest of Dean 56 0.16%
Fylde 37 0.11%
Gateshead 905 1.06%
Gedling 94 0.20%
Gloucester 152 0.32%
Gosport 166 0.52%
Gravesham 242 0.62%
Great Yarmouth 204 0.50%
Greenwich 645 0.67%
Guildford 8 0.02%
Hackney 1051 1.21%
Halton 313 0.64%
Hambleton 83 0.23%
Hammersmith and Fulham 455 0.60%
Harborough 44 0.13%
Haringey 879 0.94%
Harlow 228 0.69%
Harrogate 172 0.26%
Harrow 255 0.31%
Hart 9 0.03%
Hartlepool 77 0.20%
Hastings 278 0.71%
Havant 155 0.32%
Havering 315 0.34%
Herefordshire 288 0.38%
Hertsmere 167 0.44%
High Peak 194 0.51%
Hillingdon 432 0.44%
Hinckley and Bosworth 122 0.28%
Horsham 134 0.26%
Hounslow 474 0.56%
Huntingdonshire 167 0.25%
Hyndburn 21 0.06%
Ipswich 283 0.54%
Isle of Wight 151 0.25%
Isles of Scilly 2 0.20%
Islington 876 1.04%
Kennet 89 0.30%
Kensington and Chelsea 489 0.59%
Kerrier 125 0.30%
Kettering 202 0.56%
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk 227 0.37%
Kingston upon Hull 901 0.81%
Kingston upon Thames 545 0.87%
Kirklees 992 0.61%
Knowsley 325 0.52%
Lambeth 1105 0.94%
Lancaster 370 0.63%
Leeds 2383 0.77%
Leicester 446 0.39%
Lewes 85 0.21%
Lewisham 1021 0.94%
Lichfield 302 0.77%
Lincoln 223 0.59%
Liverpool 1402 0.74%
Luton 311 0.43%
Macclesfield 139 0.21%
Maidstone 69 0.12%
Maldon 87 0.35%
Malvern Hills 83 0.27%
Manchester 1817 0.97%
Mansfield 347 0.81%
Medway Towns 382 0.37%
Melton 67 0.34%
Mendip 110 0.24%
Merton 113 0.14%
Mid Bedfordshire 143 0.28%
Mid Devon 114 0.37%
Mid Suffolk 83 0.22%
Mid Sussex 76 0.14%
Middlesbrough 140 0.25%
Milton Keynes 152 0.17%
Mole Valley 22 0.06%
New Forest 130 0.18%
Newark and Sherwood 112 0.24%
Newcastle upon Tyne 557 0.48%
Newcastle-under-Lyme 108 0.21%
Newham 667 0.70%
North Cornwall 143 0.40%
North Devon 87 0.23%
North Dorset 65 0.24%
North East Derbyshire 70 0.17%
North East Lincolnshire 316 0.46%
North Hertfordshire 98 0.19%
North Kesteven 73 0.17%
North Lincolnshire 331 0.49%
North Norfolk 155 0.34%
North Shropshire 114 0.48%
North Somerset 335 0.40%
North Tyneside 827 0.95%
North Warwickshire 78 0.30%
North West Leicestershire 117 0.32%
North Wiltshire 131 0.25%
Northampton 429 0.52%
Norwich 237 0.42%
Nottingham City 912 0.75%
Nuneaton and Bedworth 282 0.56%
Oadby and Wigston 46 0.21%
Oldham 777 0.87%
Oswestry 95 0.59%
Oxford 300 0.56%
Pendle 61 0.16%
Penwith 115 0.40%
Peterborough 995 1.46%
Plymouth 595 0.57%
Poole 81 0.14%
Portsmouth 455 0.56%
Preston 204 0.38%
Purbeck 45 0.24%
Reading 214 0.38%
Redbridge 534 0.56%
Redcar and Cleveland 161 0.27%
Redditch 267 0.81%
Reigate and Banstead 52 0.10%
Restormel 202 0.47%
Ribble Valley 35 0.15%
Richmond upon Thames 209 0.27%
Richmondshire 102 0.54%
Rochdale 769 0.90%
Rochford 48 0.15%
Rossendale 67 0.24%
Rother 73 0.19%
Rotherham 274 0.26%
Rugby 107 0.29%
Runnymede 31 0.09%
Rushcliffe 83 0.18%
Rushmoor 38 0.11%
Rutland 58 0.41%
Ryedale 50 0.23%
Salford 1124 1.18%
Salisbury 176 0.37%
Sandwell 883 0.75%
Scarborough 202 0.42%
Sedgefield 104 0.27%
Sedgemoor 105 0.22%
Sefton 146 0.12%
Selby 122 0.38%
Sevenoaks 138 0.31%
Sheffield 3121 1.41%
Shepway 125 0.29%
Shrewsbury and Atcham 361 0.88%
Slough 129 0.29%
Solihull 446 0.54%
South Bedfordshire 145 0.31%
South Bucks 53 0.21%
South Cambridgeshire 99 0.18%
South Derbyshire 117 0.33%
South Gloucestershire 283 0.27%
South Hams 62 0.18%
South Holland 46 0.13%
South Kesteven 185 0.34%
South Lakeland 175 0.38%
South Norfolk 129 0.26%
South Northamptonshire 50 0.15%
South Oxfordshire 55 0.11%
South Ribble 151 0.34%
South Shropshire 81 0.45%
South Somerset 157 0.24%
South Staffordshire 84 0.20%
South Tyneside 368 0.55%
Southampton 297 0.32%
Southend-on-Sea 150 0.21%
Southwark 1024 0.91%
Spelthorne 38 0.10%
St Albans 140 0.26%
St Edmundsbury 86 0.20%
St Helens 420 0.57%
Stafford 242 0.47%
Staffordshire Moorlands 109 0.27%
Stevenage 79 0.24%
Stockport 316 0.26%
Stockton-on-Tees 607 0.79%
Stoke-on-Trent 456 0.44%
Stratford-on-Avon 181 0.37%
Stroud 100 0.22%
Suffolk Coastal 52 0.10%
Sunderland 568 0.47%
Surrey Heath 75 0.23%
Sutton 295 0.38%
Swale 65 0.13%
Swindon 344 0.44%
Tameside 134 0.15%
Tamworth 196 0.65%
Tandridge 33 0.10%
Taunton Deane 134 0.29%
Teesdale 19 0.17%
Teignbridge 55 0.10%
Telford & Wrekin 254 0.38%
Tendring 255 0.40%
Test Valley 27 0.06%
Tewkesbury 119 0.36%
Thanet 157 0.28%
Three Rivers 88 0.26%
Thurrock 191 0.31%
Tonbridge and Malling 165 0.37%
Torbay 155 0.26%
Torridge 26 0.10%
Tower Hamlets 974 1.16%
Trafford 259 0.28%
Tunbridge Wells 141 0.33%
Tynedale 69 0.28%
Uttlesford 46 0.16%
Vale of White Horse 111 0.24%
Vale Royal 45 0.09%
Wakefield 362 0.27%
Walsall 247 0.24%
Waltham Forest 1375 1.53%
Wandsworth 708 0.59%
Wansbeck 73 0.27%
Warrington 350 0.44%
Warwick 221 0.39%
Watford 109 0.34%
Waveney 168 0.33%
Waverley 20 0.04%
Wealden 219 0.37%
Wear Valley 168 0.62%
Wellingborough 245 0.79%
Welwyn Hatfield 448 1.09%
West Berkshire 22 0.04%
West Devon 76 0.36%
West Dorset 108 0.26%
West Lancashire 137 0.30%
West Lindsey 84 0.24%
West Oxfordshire 61 0.15%
West Somerset 138 0.86%
West Wiltshire 142 0.27%
Westminster 766 0.72%
Weymouth and Portland 34 0.12%
Wigan 1403 1.10%
Winchester 45 0.10%
Windsor and Maidenhead 29 0.05%
Wirral 553 0.41%
Woking 26 0.07%
Wokingham 66 0.11%
Wolverhampton 848 0.87%
Worcester 305 0.76%
Worthing 114 0.25%
Wychavon 135 0.28%
Wycombe 211 0.33%
Wyre 85 0.18%
Wyre Forest 227 0.55%
York 380 0.48%

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