MHCLG · Statutory homelessness in England: detailed local authority tables
Households owed a homelessness duty, by duty
83,850households
Households owed a homelessness duty, by duty were 83,850 households in 2026 Q1.
- MHCLG count
- 2026 Q1
- published 13 August 2026
- Table A1: initial assessments during the quarter
- row “ENGLAND”
- column “Assessed as owed a duty Owed a prevention or relief dutyTotal”
- cell value 83850
What this measures
Households assessed as owed a homelessness duty during the quarter, split between the prevention duty (threatened with homelessness within 56 days but not yet homeless) and the relief duty (already homeless when assessed). The two sum to the duty-owed total within rounding (every figure is rounded to the nearest 10).
What this doesn’t measure
Movement between the duties: a household owed the prevention duty that later becomes homeless is counted again under the relief duty in the quarter that happens.
Important caveat
These figures come from H-CLIC, the case-level system every English housing authority reports into, and count only households that approached their council and were dealt with under the homelessness legislation — not rough sleepers, not people who never approached, not informal arrangements. Counts are rounded to the nearest 10 and small counts are suppressed per council, so council figures do not sum exactly to England and a missing council figure means "too small to publish", not zero. Each quarter is published provisional and revised in later releases; some councils occasionally fail to submit and are imputed or omitted, which MHCLG notes in the release. Temporary-accommodation counts are a snapshot of the quarter's last day, and a household placed outside its own council's area is counted by the council that owes it the duty, not the council where it is living.
Revision history
No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.
Source
- Publisher
- MHCLG
- Publication
- Statutory homelessness in England: detailed local authority tables
- Release
- January to March 2026 (provisional), published 13 August 2026
- Source file
- hclic.ods
- File SHA-256
- f77eebd761455169626dc04c70f45177b11704999a6094384b59f37fa56d1881
- Retrieved
- 4 September 2026
- Sheet
- A1
- Table
- Table A1: initial assessments during the quarter
- Row
- ENGLAND
- Column
- Assessed as owed a duty Owed a prevention or relief dutyTotal
- Cell value
- 83850
- Geography
- E92000001
- Unit
- households
- API
- /api/metrics/homelessness_duty_owed_by_duty · /series · /vintages
Government periods
Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.
- Release
- January to March 2026 (provisional) · publication page
- Last updated
- 13 August 2026
- Next release expected
- Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)