Housing Statistics 2025: Key Trends Summary
Annual statistics on housing stock by tenure to 31st March 2024, local authority housing management data (relating either to local authority social housing, home ownership, or the private rented sector), and new housing supply data up to 31st March 2025.
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Local authority housing for older people and people with physical disabilities
Councils offer or arrange housing support services tailored to the specific needs of older and vulnerable individuals, to give them the opportunity to stay in their own homes. Housing options for those with variable needs include very sheltered, sheltered, medium dependency, wheelchair accessible, and ambulant disabled accommodations. The total numbers in each category may change annually based on the current needs of tenants or provider reclassifications.
At the end of March 2025 there were 20,754 supported houses for older people and 32,111 supported houses for people with physical disabilities provided by local authorities. The total number of supported housing for older people and people with physical disabilities has increased by 27% in 10 years.
Chart 9: Total housing for people with physical disabilities and for older people, 2005-06 to 2024-25
Notes on housing for older people and people with disabilities data:
- Further detailed figures are available in the housing for older people and people with disabilities Excel web tables.