Scottish House Condition Survey Local Authority Tables 2022-2024

Using Local Authority Data: Key Information

This release supplements the SHCS 2024 Key Findings report which was published on the 24th February 2026 and presents the latest national data for key measures of energy efficiency, fuel poverty, energy perceptions and housing quality. These tables provide key indicators at local authority level relating to households and dwelling types.

The local authority tables lag the main national results because three years’ worth of data are combined to mitigate the smaller sample sizes involved when analysing sub-national geographies. In this case, survey data from the period 2022-2024 are averaged. Consequently, the national rates presented here, and in the Excel tables, will not match those found in the main Key Findings report. Furthermore, the tables are a snapshot in time, and comparisons over time should only be made between releases with no overlapping years.

All stated estimates lie at the midpoint of a confidence interval which primarily depends on sample size. Over the three year period, the largest local authority sample sizes were for City of Edinburgh (744 households), Glasgow City (657 households) and Fife (452 households). The smallest sample is for Inverclyde (163 households). Comparisons between all estimates should take account of the confidence limits, and caution should be taken if simply comparing the stated midpoints.

For example, the prevalence of damp in Angus was estimated to lie in the range 3-9%, while for Scotland, the range was estimated to be 3-4%. Despite the midpoint in Angus being double Scotland (6% versus 3%), the extent of overlap between the two ranges means the survey has not detected a statistically significant difference between them. For this reason, and for clarity, this summary focuses only on statistically significant differences between local authority and national rates in the 2022-2024 period. National rates use the full sample (for most tables, 9,036 households) and therefore have smaller uncertainties, meaning observed differences are more likely to be real.

Confidence intervals are visualised in the accompanying plots as error bars, and are calculated at the 95% level, where there is a one in twenty chance the true value will lie outside these ranges. A statistical tool is provided in the published local authority tables document to allow users to calculate confidence intervals for estimates in this report.

In this analysis, and the accompanying tables, where a rate is derived from a sub-sample with fewer than 30 cases or an estimate represents two or fewer cases, the statistic is suppressed and the local authority will not be present in the figures, tables or text for that section. Further technical information on the survey can be found in the 2024 SHS Methodology note, and the SHCS Methodology Notes 2024.