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Summary

The latest annual volume of Housing Statistics for 2008 were released on 11 December 2008 under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

This annual compendium covers all aspects of housing in England (and in some cases, tables also cover the United Kingdom). Point to note include:

• There were 22.2 million dwellings in England in 2007, 82 per cent of them houses or bungalows.
• Seventy per cent of households are owner occupiers, 18 per cent are social tenants and 13 per cent are private renters.
• Lower quartile house prices stood at 7.3 times lower quartile earnings in 2007, up from 4.2 times in 2001.
• In 2006-07 in England the average rent paid by council tenants was £280 per month compared to £313 for Housing Association tenants and £565 for assured private rents.
• In 2006-07 around 2.7 per cent of households were living in overcrowded conditions, ranging from 6.6 per cent in London to 1.5 per cent in the South West.
• There were just over 44,000 affordable housing units provided in England in 2006-07, thirty per cent of these were in London.
• The average energy efficiency rating for housing stock is increasing - 7 per cent of houses were in the more energy efficient bands A-C in 2006 compared with only 2 per cent in 1996.

The compendium is a snapshot of  data available at the time of going to print (Autumn 2008). More up to date data are published as they become available as live tables.

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