Stastical Bulletin Housing Series: HSG/1999/3: Page 14

Stastical Bulletin Housing Series: Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation in Scotland 1987-88 to 1997-88: National and Local Authority Analyses: HSG/1999/3

Applicant households 1997-98, local authority assessment and accommodation found

Table 8

Area	Number of applicant households in 1997-98¹	Number assessed as priority homeless¹	Percentage of those assessed as homeless priority		Number assessed as priority potentially homeless¹	Percentage of those assessed as potentially homeless priority
Area	Number of applicant households in 1997-98¹	Number assessed as priority homeless¹	Permanent accommodation secured	Short stay accommodation secured	Number assessed as priority potentially homeless¹	Permanent accommodation secured	Short stay accommodation secured
Scotland	43,100	13,700	67	15	3,800	70	5
Aberdeen City	1,718	405	62	23	208	74	9
Aberdeenshire	1,055	445	86	3	92	82	2
Angus	953	202	51	-	122	57	-
Argyll & Bute	407	185	85	10	25	76	-
Clackmannanshire	556	75	60	-	87	68	-
Dumfries & Galloway	1,113	275	82	1	130	92	1
Dundee City	1,105	464	73	4	29	48	14
East Ayrshire	759	237	54	25	28	25	36
East Dunbartonshire	428	179	75	8	31	84	6
East Lothian	985	194	76	11	34	71	6
East Renfrewshire	216	67	70	7	34	91	3
Edinburgh, City of	3,781	2,084	83	1	466	83	2
Eilean Siar	171	56	96	-	20	95	5
Falkirk	1,065	294	58	5	38	66	3
Fife	2,825	830	79	3	30	37	-
Glasgow City	11,022	2,618	53	22	888	65	6
Highland	987	307	66	18	261	86	1
Inverclyde	354	240	88	5	5	60	-
Midlothian	370	205	17	72	6	67	17
Moray	402	153	93	1	7	71	-
North Ayrshire	882	246	84	2	19	63	-
North Lanarkshire	1,813	488	80	9	57	88	4
Orkney	94	51	67	4	2	50	-
Perth & Kinross	512	102	66	13	281	68	11
Renfrewshire	654	263	77	-	64	92	-
Scottish Borders, The	609	227	81	7	-	-	-
Shetland	148	57	65	7	7	29	-
South Ayrshire	833	340	41	46	13	69	8
South Lanarkshire	1,906	558	30	56	164	74	6
Stirling	911	390	86	11	31	87	3
West Dunbartonshire	588	222	85	3	104	81	1
West Lothian	967	326	19	56	251	29	9

See Notes on Tables - page 13.
1. The Scotland figure is based on the total number of applications. The individual local authority figures are based on the numbers of individual case returns received, and therefore do not sum to the Scotland total given.