Social housing × birthplace × employment
Where social housing sits, who lives in it, and how that intersects with employment. Census 2021 marginals are loaded for all 650 constituencies; the granular MSOA cross-tab is queued for Phase 2.
This page uses the data we already have ingested: tenure % per constituency from Census 2021, plus country-of-birth and employment shares at LA level. What this gives you is the aggregate relationship across all 650 places, which is enough to see that social housing concentration correlates with non-UK-born population.
What it doesn't yet give: the conditionalcross-tab, e.g. “of social tenants in this MSOA, what % are non-UK-born, and of those what % are employed?” That needs Census 2021 RM076 at MSOA level, which is queued as Phase 2 (scripts/housing/).
Example: what Phase 2 unlocks
MSOA-levelOne MSOA in Leicester: St Matthews & Highfields North (E02003553). Once social_housing_crosstabs is populated from Census 2021 RM076, every MSOA in England will display this kind of conditional stat live.
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 the cross-tab story is sharpest. Employment is the LA-level marginal; tenure-conditional figures will arrive with Phase 2.
| 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.
- MSOA example: hardcoded Census 2021 RM076 for one MSOA in Leicester East. Expanding to all English MSOAs is a future enhancement.
- 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 doesn't establish that the same people are in both groups. The MSOA cross-tab solves this.