Social housing × birthplace × employment
Where social housing sits, who lives in it, and how that intersects with employment, across all 650 parliamentary constituencies. Census 2021.
Tenure is Census 2021, measured per parliamentary constituency. Country of birth and employment are Census 2021 measured per local authority, matched to constituencies on a best-fit basis, so those two columns are the figure for the surrounding authority rather than the constituency itself.
These are separate marginal distributions for the same area, not a cross-tabulation. They show that social housing share and non-UK-born share tend to rise together across places. They cannot show whether the same individuals fall into both groups: nothing here states what share of social tenants were born outside the UK, or their employment rate. That is a different statistic and this page does not attempt it.
Top 20 constituencies: high social housing + high non-UK-born share
Ranked by the sum of social-housing % and non-UK-born %. These are the places where both shares are highest. Employment and country of birth are the local-authority figures for the surrounding area, not the constituency itself.
| Constituency | Social housing % | Non-UK-born % | Of which EU | Of which non-EU | Employed % | Unemployed % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Ham | 28.0% | 44.3% | 17.5% | 26.8% | 59.2% | 6.3% |
| West Ham and Beckton | 28.0% | 44.3% | 17.5% | 26.8% | 59.2% | 6.3% |
| Stratford and Bow | 28.0% | 44.3% | 17.5% |
Social housing % vs non-UK-born %
Each dot is one constituency. The line is the linear fit.
Methodology & sources
- Tenure %: Census 2021, constituency-level (boundary-fitted).
- Country of birth %: Census 2021, local-authority level, joined to each constituency via best-fit lookup.
- Employment / unemployment %: Census 2021, local-authority level.
- Correlation: Pearson, computed live across all constituencies with both values populated.
- Caveats: country-of-birth and employment are area-level marginals, not conditional on tenure. A high non-UK-born % alongside a high social-housing % in the same area is suggestive but does not establish that the same people are in both groups. Answering that would require a tenure-by-birthplace cross-tabulation, which this page does not use and does not claim to.