Introduction

This publication describes some of the data collected through the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) broken down by housing tenure. Topics covered include households by tenure, characteristics of households by tenure, housing satisfaction by tenure and the number of households on social housing waiting lists.

The supporting excel spreadsheet contains further topics broken down by housing tenure than covered in the commentary of this publication and where sample sizes allow results can be found by local authority area.

The commentary focuses on overall categories of housing tenure (private rented sector, social rented sector, and owner-occupied households) rather than sub-categories. In some instances, the data is available for sub-categories (owner occupied – owned outright, owner occupied – buying with loan, social rented – local authority, and social rented- housing associations/co-op/charitable trust) within the accompanying supporting excel tables.

An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland

These statistics are official statistics. Official statistics are statistics that are produced by crown bodies, those acting on behalf of crown bodies, or those specified in statutory orders, as defined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.

Scottish Government statistics are regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.

More information about Scottish Government statistics is available on the Scottish Government website.

Corrections notice
This publication was updated 6 December 2024 with slight revisions in the data. It was identified that 310 survey respondents out of a sample of 10,540 had been excluded from the analysis published. This has now been corrected, and the full sample has been used. This has resulted in minor corrections in eight of the percentages included in the narrative (none greater than one percentage point difference) and further corrections in the supporting tables. There were no changes in the narrative initially published, and key messages remain the same.