Housing
The housing data below is sourced from the National Government’s Race Disparity Unit, and includes raw data as well as graphs and data summaries covering the following areas:
Time Spent Living in Current Home
Home Ownership
Renting from a Private Landlord
New Social Housing Lettings
Renting Social Housing
Income Spent on Rent for New Lettings of Social Housing
Statutory Homelessness
Overcrowded Households
Households Under occupying their Home
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© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This graph shows the average length of time spent by different ethnicities in their current home. In the Southwest, the white British population spend on average 14.16 years in their current home whereas those who are other than white spend over half of that at 6.08.
© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This graph shows the percentage of homeowners by ethnicity. Of the white British population in the Southwest, 71% of them own their homes whereas this value is only 40% for people other than white British. This means 1,602,000 White people own their home in the Southwest but only 70,000 people who are other than white have the same ownership.
© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This graph shows the percentage of people by ethnicity who are renting their homes from a private landlord in the Southwest. Only 16% of White British people in the Southwest rent their homes whereas 48% of people who are other than white are renting. This is 3 times more for ethnic minorities.
© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This shows the distribution of new social housing lettings in Bristol. 71.8% of these new social lettings went to people in the white category and the remaining 28.2% went to people who were other than white.
© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This data shows statutory homelessness in Bristol. It measures the percentage of homeless households in England, by ethnic group of the household.
A homeless household is one in which the local authority has a duty to house in settled accommodation because its members are unintentionally homeless but not sleeping rough (GOV.UK, 2020).
This chart shows that of all homeless people in Bristol 56% are white which is the highest number after black at 24%. All the 4 other ethnicities make up the remaining 20% with only 3% being in the other category.
© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This data shows the percentage of overcrowded homes in the South West. A household is overcrowded if it has fewer bedrooms than it needs to avoid undesirable sharing, based on the age, sex and relationship of household members (GOV.UK, 2020). Of all households in the Southwest, 3% were overcrowded with 1% of White British homes and 7% of other than white households falling into this category. Nationally, White British households were less likely to be overcrowded than households from all other ethnic groups combined – this was across all socio-economic groups and age groups, most regions and income bands, and regardless of whether they owned or rented their home (GOV.UK, 2020).
© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This graph shows the percentage of people in the South West who are under occupying their homes. To under occupy their homes means households where there is a spare or unused room. 43% of the white British under occupied their home whereas 21% of other than white British had extra capacity in their homes. This means that 22,21,000 white British household are under occupied compared to 36,000 other than white households.
© RDA - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This graph shows the percentage of people renting social housing in the Southwest. 13% of the Southwest’s White British population are renting social housing and 12% of other than White British are doing the same.
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© ONS - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This graph shows the ethnic group of the household reference person (HRP) in varying home sizes for the Southwest. The household reference person is defined as the most economically active resident in the household (GOV.UK, 2020). Around 40% of Caribbean and other black households have people who are the HRP in 1 person households which Is the largest for this size. This drops to being the HRP for 6+ people houses to 2% and 7% respectively. Pakistani and Bangladeshi households saw the smallest fluctuations with a range of 3% and 6% respectively with 19% of Bangladeshi homes seeing their HRP in a 6 or more person household being Bangladeshi.
© ONS - Graph courtesy of RACE.
This graph shows the ethnic group of the household reference person (HRP) in varying home sizes for the City of Bristol. Between 40-50% of mixed ethnicity, Caribbean, other black and other ethnic group households have HRP in 1 person households which drops to under 10% when considering 6 or more people households. Similarly to the Southwest, Bangladeshi figures only fluctuate by 3% when considering household sizes.