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MHCLG · Social housing lettings in England, Tenants Summary Tables (MHCLG CORE)

New social housing lettings

Year ending March 2025 Final

262,944lettings

New social housing lettings was 262,944 lettings in the year ending March 2025, up 0.9% (2,465) from 260,479 in the year ending March 2024.

▲ 0.9% · +2,465 against Year ending March 2024 (year on year)

  1. MHCLG count
  2. Year ending March 2025
  3. published 13 November 2025
  4. Table 3e: Nationality of lead tenant by type of new social housing letting
  5. row “UK national + EEA countries + All other countries”
  6. column “Total”
  7. cell value 233198 + 9830 + 19916

Year ending March 2008 to Year ending March 2025

New social housing lettings: Year ending March 2008 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0100k200k300k2010201520202025Year ending March 2008: 217,846 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 339,642 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 335,400 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 365,829 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 394,251 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 376,861 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 394,693 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 383,705 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 372,974 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 333,173 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 312,980 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 313,928 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 306,152 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 236,545 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 266,741 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 252,232 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 260,479 lettings · published 13 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 262,944 lettings · published 13 November 2025
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Breakdowns

What this measures

New social housing lettings in England in the year to March: the sum of the three nationality groups of Table 3e of the Tenants Summary Tables (UK national, EEA countries, all other countries), which cover every letting because the department imputes missing answers in that table. The sum is our addition of the three published figures and each observation names them.

What this doesn’t measure

The number of households living in social housing (this is the year's new lettings, a flow), mutual exchanges, or lettings in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Important caveat

These count new social housing lettings in England in a year — a flow, not the number of people living in social housing. A household that stays put for decades appears once, in the year it was let the home; nationality here is the lead tenant's at the point of letting. In the grouped table missing nationality has been imputed by the department, so the three groups cover every letting; the specific-nationality table is not imputed, includes "Tenant prefers not to say", and the release itself says it cannot be compared with the grouped figures. CORE covers local authority and private registered provider lettings in England only.

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
Social housing lettings in England, Tenants Summary Tables (MHCLG CORE)
Release
April 2024 to March 2025, published 13 November 2025
Source file
tenants_summary_2024-25.ods
File SHA-256
743e4893999eb695ef92aa90494f44cc19e5a03cc8d11bac6657bfba8c3c5866
Retrieved
4 September 2026
Sheet
Table_3e
Table
Table 3e: Nationality of lead tenant by type of new social housing letting
Row
UK national + EEA countries + All other countries
Column
Total
Cell value
233198 + 9830 + 19916
Geography
E92000001
Unit
lettings
API
/api/metrics/social_lettings · /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.

Conservative 2019–2024313,928Year ending March 2019260,479Year ending March 2024↓ 17.0%
Conservative 2017–2019333,173Year ending March 2017313,928Year ending March 2019↓ 5.8%
Conservative 2015–2017383,705Year ending March 2015333,173Year ending March 2017↓ 13.2%
Coalition 2010–2015335,400Year ending March 2010383,705Year ending March 2015↑ 14.4%

Full comparison with chart

Release
April 2024 to March 2025 · publication page
Last updated
13 November 2025
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)