MHCLG · Statutory homelessness in England: detailed local authority tables
Households with children in temporary accommodation
86,460households
Households with children in temporary accommodation were 86,460 households at 31 March 2026.
- MHCLG snapshot
- 2026 Q1
- published 13 August 2026
- Table TA1: households in temporary accommodation at the end of the quarter
- row “ENGLAND”
- column “Households in TA with childrenTotal”
- cell value 86460
What this measures
Households in temporary accommodation on the last day of the quarter that include dependent children or a pregnant woman, from the H-CLIC statutory homelessness detailed local authority tables.
What this doesn’t measure
The number of children themselves (one household can hold several), or children in unsuitable permanent housing. A stock at the quarter's end, rounded to the nearest 10.
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
- TA1
- Table
- Table TA1: households in temporary accommodation at the end of the quarter
- Row
- ENGLAND
- Column
- Households in TA with childrenTotal
- Cell value
- 86460
- Geography
- E92000001
- Unit
- households
- API
- /api/metrics/ta_households_with_children · /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)