Statutory Homelessness
Households owed a homelessness duty by their council in England, quarter by quarter, from MHCLG's H-CLIC returns.
England, Oct to Dec 2025
Households the authority accepted a duty towards under the Homelessness Reduction Act, either to prevent homelessness or to relieve it.
Households given a statutory homelessness assessment in the quarter.
Threatened with homelessness within 56 days; the authority must try to prevent it.
Already homeless; the authority must help secure accommodation for 56 days.
Still homeless after relief, and found eligible, in priority need and not intentionally homeless.
Households owed a prevention or relief duty
England, 2018Q2 to 2025Q4
By region
Households owed a prevention or relief duty, Oct to Dec 2025. Regions are published totals, not sums of the authorities below.
| Region | Households |
|---|---|
| London | 16,290 |
| North West | 10,630 |
| South East | 10,250 |
| East of England | 7,960 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 7,520 |
| South West | 6,750 |
| West Midlands | 6,560 |
| East Midlands | 5,860 |
| North East | 4,440 |
By local authority
294 authorities filed for Oct to Dec 2025, together accounting for 75,458 households against a published England total of 76,270. These are counts, not rates: a large authority will sit near the top because it is large.
| # | Local authority | Households |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leeds | 1,330 |
| 2 | Birmingham | 1,106 |
| 3 | Croydon | 968 |
| 4 | Leeds | 897 |
| 5 | Liverpool | 862 |
| 6 | Hillingdon | 856 |
| 7 | Kingston upon Hull | 855 |
How to read these figures
- England, regional and local authority figures are all published by MHCLG. The England total is taken from the published national return rather than added up from the authorities, so it does not shift when an authority fails to file.
- Not every authority files every quarter, which is why the authority table above does not sum exactly to the England total. The shortfall is the missing returns, not households who vanished.
- A household can be owed a prevention duty and later a relief duty, so the categories should not be added together.
- Temporary accommodation is not shown. MHCLG publish it, it is not loaded here, and nothing on this page is a count of households in temporary accommodation.
- These are records about places. A high count reflects housing demand, population and local pressures, and is not a judgement on a council.
2018Q2 to 2025Q4