Homelessness

Households in temporary accommodation, per 1,000 households

January to March 2026. Lower is better. Source: MHCLG: Statutory homelessness, January to March 2026.

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• Not covered (county and district areas)

Each council is the same size, so London is easy to see. Map layout by Open Innovations.

Every council, lowest first

Position	Council	Figure
1	Dudley	0.2
2	Cheshire East	0.3
3	Hartlepool	0.4
3	Wiltshire	0.4
5	Barnsley	0.5
5	County Durham	0.5
5	Northumberland	0.5
5	St. Helens	0.5
9	Blackburn with Darwen	0.6
9	Cheshire West and Chester	0.6
9	South Tyneside	0.6
9	Stockton-on-Tees	0.6
9	Westmorland and Furness	0.6
14	Cumberland	0.7
14	North Tyneside	0.7
14	Stoke-on-Trent	0.7
14	York	0.7
18	North Somerset	0.8
18	Telford and Wrekin	0.8
20	Doncaster	0.9
20	North Yorkshire	0.9
22	Bath and North East Somerset	1
22	Walsall	1
24	Dorset	1.1
24	Wokingham	1.1
26	Calderdale	1.2
26	Somerset	1.2
28	Sunderland	1.3
28	Wirral	1.3
30	Gateshead	1.4
30	Knowsley	1.4
30	North Lincolnshire	1.4
30	Rutland	1.4
34	Darlington	1.5
34	Middlesbrough	1.5
34	Rotherham	1.5
34	Wakefield	1.5
38	Buckinghamshire	1.6
38	Newcastle upon Tyne	1.6
38	North Northamptonshire	1.6
38	Sefton	1.6
38	Stockport	1.6
43	Bolton	1.7
43	Sandwell	1.7
43	Shropshire	1.7
43	Wigan	1.7
47	Central Bedfordshire	1.8
47	East Riding of Yorkshire	1.8
49	Kingston upon Hull	1.9
49	Kirklees	1.9
51	Blackpool	2
51	South Gloucestershire	2
53	Halton	2.1
53	Leeds	2.1
53	Warrington	2.1
56	Herefordshire	2.2
56	Solihull	2.2
56	Wolverhampton	2.2
59	West Berkshire	2.3
60	Bradford	2.6
60	Torbay	2.6
62	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	2.7
62	Trafford	2.7
64	Bexley	2.8
64	Sheffield	2.8
66	Bury	2.9
66	Plymouth	2.9
68	Bracknell Forest	3
69	Cornwall	3.3
69	Rochdale	3.3
71	Swindon	3.5
72	Peterborough	3.7
72	West Northamptonshire	3.7
74	Isle of Wight	3.8
74	Southampton	3.8
74	Tameside	3.8
77	Windsor and Maidenhead	4
78	Hounslow	4.8
79	Derby	4.9
80	Oldham	5
81	Nottingham	5.3
81	Southend-on-Sea	5.3
83	Medway	5.4
84	Reading	6.2
85	Salford	6.7
86	Portsmouth	6.9
87	Coventry	7.2
88	Richmond upon Thames	8.3
89	Liverpool	8.4
89	Milton Keynes	8.4
91	Leicester	8.6
91	Merton	8.6
93	Thurrock	9.4
94	Luton	11
95	Bedford	11.6
96	Bromley	11.7
97	Birmingham	11.9
97	Manchester	11.9
99	Kingston upon Thames	12.4
100	Havering	12.6
101	Sutton	12.9
102	Barking and Dagenham	13.1
103	Camden	13.3
104	Hillingdon	13.5
105	Waltham Forest	14.5
106	Greenwich	15.5
107	Harrow	15.9
108	Brighton and Hove	16.2
109	Hammersmith and Fulham	17.1
110	Lewisham	18.4
111	Barnet	19.3
112	Islington	19.7
113	Brent	19.9
114	Croydon	20.4
115	Ealing	21.2
116	Tower Hamlets	22
117	Enfield	25.3
117	Haringey	25.3
119	Kensington and Chelsea	25.4
120	Redbridge	26.1
121	Southwark	29.9
122	Wandsworth	30
123	Lambeth	30.9
124	Hackney	32.8
125	Westminster	48.6
126	Newham	59.8

No figure for: Bristol, North East Lincolnshire, Redcar and Cleveland, Slough.