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Housing and Regeneration - Housing Statistics for Scotland

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Housing Statistics for Scotland

The Housing Statistics for Scotland web tables contain a range of time series and summary tables available to download in Excel format. They replace the Quarterly Housing Trends in Scotland bulletin series. The tables were last updated on 25 November 2008 and were accompanied by the Housing Statistics for Scotland 2008: Key Trends Summary.

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Title:Housing Statistics for Scotland - Housing Revenue Account
Description:Local authority housing income and expenditure.
Web publication date:April 01, 2003
Last modified date:August 19, 2008
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Local Authority Housing Income & Expenditure

  • There will be an estimated 322,900 council houses in Scotland on 30 September 2008.
  • The 290,000 reduction in council housing stock in the 11 years between 30 September 1997 and 30 September 2008 is mainly due to a combination of around 150,000 sales to sitting tenants, around 100,000 houses transferred to housing associations and around 40,000 demolitions.
  • Average council rent in 2008-09 is £50.51 per week, ranging from £39.40 per week in Moray to £64.44 in Edinburgh. Since 1997-98 council rents have increased by around 1% per year in real terms - i.e. above the Retail Prices Index.
  • Average expenditure on management and maintenance is expected to be £1,766 per house, an increase of 5.5% or £92 per house over 2007-08.
  • Councils project that they will lose around £18 million due to unlet houses in 2008-09. This represents 2.1% of standard rent income and is at about the same level as last year.
  • Rent arrears at 31 March 2008 represented 4.3% of standard rental income. The scale of rent arrears varies widely between councils, from an estimated 1.1% of standard rental income in West Lothian at 31 March 2008 to 9.5% of standard rental income in Aberdeen City.
  • Housing debt in Scotland is expected to increase by 5.0% in the year to March 2009.
  • Shetland and Edinburgh continue to have the highest amount of debt - £26,857 per house and £14,517 respectively at 31 March 2009, Orkney continues to debt free, and of the remaining councils Falkirk has the lowest debt per house - £1,969 per house.
  • Local authorities' housing capital expenditure is projected to total £505.7 million in 2008-09, an increase of £51.9 million (11.4% increase) over 2007-08.

Local Authority Housing Income & Expenditure Tables

Local Authority Housing Income & Expenditure 1997-98 to 2008-09

Page updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2008