Living in Britain 2000

4 HOUSING AND CONSUMER DURABLES

CHARACTERISTICS OF TENURE GROUPS

SOCIAL RENTERS

Private renters

Private renter households were more likely than other households to be living in converted flats (20% compared with 3% of social renters and 2% of owner occupiers).
A higher proportion (39%) of private renters lived in accommodation built before 1919 than owner occupiers (22%) and social renters (6%).
Of the different household types, those most likely to be private renters were households consisting of single adults aged under 60 (20%).
In about seven out of ten (71%) private rented households, the household reference person was aged under 45 and in just over a third (36%) the household reference person was aged under 30 (compared with, for example, 14% for social rented households).
The average household income of private renters in 2000 was £376 gross per week.

Tables and Figures

Table 4.4
(a) Type of accommodation by tenure (b) Tenure by type of accommodation

Table 4.5
Age of building by tenure

Table 4.6
(a) Household type by tenure (b) Tenure by household type

Table 4.9
Usual gross weekly income by tenure

Table 4.10
(a) Age of household reference person by tenure (b) Tenure by age of household reference person

Table 4.8
Type of accommodation by household type

Table 4.11
Tenure by sex and marital status of household reference person

Table 4.13
(a) Socio-economic group and economic activity status of household reference person by tenure (b) Tenure by socio-economic group and economic activity status of houshold reference person

Table 4.14
(a) Length of residence of household reference person by tenure (b) Tenure by length of residence of household reference person

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