Release

Housing affordability in England and Wales: 2017

Released: 26 April 2018 9:30am
Next release: March 2019

Summary

Brings together data on house prices and annual earnings to calculate affordability ratios for national and subnational geographies in England and Wales, on an annual basis.

Publications

Data

  • House price to workplace-based earnings ratio

    Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices by gross annual workplace-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

  • House price to residence-based earnings ratio

    Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices by gross annual residence-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

Contact details

Name

Nigel Henretty

Email

better.info@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1329 447934