Tenure by car or van availability by number of usual residents aged 17 or over in household

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There is evidence of people incorrectly identifying their type of landlord as ”Council or local authority” or “Housing association”. You should add these two categories together when analysing data that uses this variable.

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Summary

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify households in England and Wales by tenure, by car or van availability, and by number of usual residents aged 17 or over in the household. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Variable and dataset information

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Lower tier local authorities

Lower tier local authorities provide a range of local services. There are 309 lower tier local authorities in England made up of 181 non-metropolitan districts, 59 unitary authorities, 36 metropolitan districts and 33 London boroughs (including City of London). In Wales there are 22 local authorities made up of 22 unitary authorities.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. However, you can choose to filter areas by:

  • country - for example, Wales
  • region - for example, London
  • local authority - for example, Cornwall
  • health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
  • statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

Tenure of household

Whether a household owns or rents the accommodation that it occupies.

Owner-occupied accommodation can be:

* owned outright, which is where the household owns all of the accommodation

* with a mortgage or loan

* part-owned on a shared ownership scheme

Rented accommodation can be:

* private rented, for example, rented through a private landlord or letting agent

* social rented through a local council or housing association

This information is not available for household spaces with no usual residents.

Car or van availability

The number of cars or vans owned or available for use by household members.

Vehicles included:

* pick-ups, camper vans and motor homes

* vehicles that are temporarily not working

* vehicles that have failed their MOT

* vehicles owned or used by a lodger

* company cars or vans if they're available for private use

Vehicles not included:

* motorbikes, trikes, quad bikes or mobility scooters

* vehicles that have a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN)

* vehicles owned or used only by a visitor

* vehicles that are kept at another address or not easily accessed

The number of cars or vans in an area relates only to households. Cars or vans used by communal establishment residents are not counted.

Households with 10 to 20 cars or vans are counted as having only 10.

Households with more than 20 cars or vans were treated as invalid and a value imputed.

Number of people aged 17 years or over in household

The number of people in a household aged 17 years and over.

Variables

Population type
All households
Area type
Lower tier local authorities
Coverage
England and Wales
Number of people aged 17 years or over in household
4 Categories
  • No usual residents aged 17 years or over in household
  • One usual resident aged 17 years or over in household
  • Two or more usual residents aged 17 years or over in household
  • Does not apply
Tenure of household
5 Categories
  • Owned: Owns outright
  • Owned: Owns with a mortgage or loan or shared ownership
  • Rented: Social rented
  • Private rented or lives rent free
  • Does not apply
Car or van availability
4 Categories
  • No cars or vans in household
  • 1 car or van in household
  • 2 or more cars or vans in household
  • Does not apply

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Protecting personal data

Sometimes we need to make changes to data if it is possible to identify individuals. This is known as statistical disclosure control.

In Census 2021, we:

  • swapped records (targeted record swapping), for example, if a household was likely to be identified in datasets because it has unusual characteristics, we swapped the record with a similar one from a nearby small area (very unusual households could be swapped with one in a nearby local authority)
  • added small changes to some counts (cell key perturbation), for example, we might change a count of four to a three or a five – this might make small differences between tables depending on how the data are broken down when we applied perturbation

Read more in Section 5 of our article Design for Census 2021.

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