MHCLG · ODS · quarterly · England

Statutory homelessness in England: detailed local authority tables

Only the January-to-March-2026 file onwards is readable: MHCLG redesigned the workbook into accessible single-header sheets (with a Cover naming the quarter and status) for that release, and every earlier quarter uses a merged multi-row layout this extractor does not parse — the series therefore starts at 2026 Q1 and grows quarterly. Each quarter lives on its own release page, so publication_url must be repointed when a new quarter appears. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and small cells are suppressed ("[c]"), so components can differ slightly from published totals elsewhere; the accommodation-type and duty splits are required to sum to their totals within rounding drift, and the extractor enforces that. Temporary-accommodation tables are a stock at the quarter's end; assessment tables are a flow during the quarter.

Official page
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-january-to-march-2026
Authority
First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
Latest release
January to March 2026 (provisional), published 13 August 2026
Next expected
Quarterly; April to June 2026 figures expected around November 2026 (estimated)
Extractor
ingest/ukdata/extractors/mhclg_homelessness.py

Metrics read from this publication

MetricSheet · tableRow labelUnit
Households in temporary accommodationTA1 · Table TA1: households in temporary accommodation at the end of the quarterall areashouseholds
Households in temporary accommodation, by accommodation typebreakdown by accommodationTA1 · Table TA1: households in temporary accommodation at the end of the quarterall areashouseholds
Households with children in temporary accommodationTA1 · Table TA1: households in temporary accommodation at the end of the quarterall areashouseholds
Families in B&Bs beyond the six-week legal limitTA1 · Table TA1: households in temporary accommodation at the end of the quarterall areashouseholds
Households assessed as owed a homelessness dutyA1 · Table A1: initial assessments during the quarterall areashouseholds
Households owed a homelessness duty, by dutybreakdown by dutyA1 · Table A1: initial assessments during the quarterall areashouseholds

Releases ingested

PublishedReleaseObservationsFile
13 August 2026January to March 2026 (provisional)4,061hclic.ods
sha256 f77eebd761455169

API: households_in_temporary_accommodation · ta_households_with_children · bb_families_over_six_weeks · households_owed_homelessness_duty