Living in Britain 2001

4 HOUSING AND CONSUMER DURABLES

CHARACTERISTICS OF TENURE GROUPS

Owner occupiers

The majority of owner occupiers lived in a house (90%). Almost two-thirds (64%) lived in a detached or semi-detached house and 26% lived in terraced houses. Of the remaining 10% who lived in a flat or room, 8% lived in a purpose built flat or maisonette while 2% lived in a converted flat/maisonette or room.

About a third (34%) of outright owners lived in a detached house compared with a quarter (25%) of those buying their home on a mortgage. This latter group were more likely than outright owner occupiers to be living in a terraced house (29% compared with 22%).
Unlike other tenure groups owner occupiers' accommodation was fairly evenly spread between properties of all ages.
Among outright owners the median age of the household reference person was 65 to 69 compared with 30 to 44 for households who were buying with a mortgage.
Lone parent families with dependent children were less than half as likely to be owner occupiers with a mortgage compared with other families with dependent children (29% of lone parent families were owner occupiers with a mortgage compared with 71% of other families with dependent children).
Of all households, those buying with a mortgage had on average the highest household income (£713 gross per week).

Tables and Figures (for more details click on the links below)

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

Table 4.5
Age of building by tenure

Table 4.7
Housing profile by family type: lone-parent families compared with other families

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 4.11
Tenure by sex and marital status of household reference person

Table 4.13
(a) Length of residence of household reference person by tenure (b) Tenure by length of residence of household reference person

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