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3. Housing and neighbourhoods

Figure 3.1 shows the tenure breakdown of Scotland's housing. Owner-occupation - either owned outright or buying with a mortgage - accounts for two-thirds (66%) of tenure, while 25% of households rent from a social landlord and 8% rent from a private landlord. Around two-thirds (67%) of single parent families live in rented accommodation compared with around a quarter of other families (22% of small families and 25% of large families (Table 3.1). Renting is most common in large urban areas where 38% of households live in rented accommodation (Table 3.2)

Overall, 9% of adults have lived in their current residence for less than a year, while 12% have been resident for 31 years or more (Table 3.3). Turnover is particularly high in the private rented sector where 43% have been in their current property for less than one year.

Figure 3.1: Tenure of household
2006 data, Households

The majority of adults (92%) feel that their local area is either a 'very good' or 'fairly good' place to live (Table 3.4) but there is considerable variation between areas when local levels of deprivation ³ are taken into account, especially in the proportion saying their area is 'very good'. For example, 73% of those in the least deprived areas rate their neighbourhood as 'very good' whereas only 25% of those in the most deprived areas give their neighbourhood the same rating.

Adults living in the most deprived areas are much more likely to feel that there are problems in their neighbourhood. For example 43% of adults living in the most deprived areas feel that there is a problem with rubbish and litter and a third that vandalism (33%), rowdy behaviour (32%) and drug misuse or dealing (30%) are common. In contrast, 15% of adults living in the least deprived areas feel that rubbish and litter is a common problem and fewer than 1 in 10 that vandalism (8%), rowdy behaviour (6%) or drug abuse and dealing (3%) are common (Table 3.5).

Table 3.1: Tenure of household by household type
Column percentages, 2006 data, Households

Table 3.2: Tenure of household by urban/rural classification
Column percentages, 2006 data, Households

Table 3.3: Time in current residence by tenure of household
Row percentages, 2006, Adult population

Table 3.4 Rating of neighbourhood as a place to live by Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile
Column percentages, 2006 data, Adult population

Table 3.5: Perception of prevalence of neighbourhood problems by Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile (% saying each is very or fairly common)
Column percentages, 2006 data, Adult population

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