Owner Occupation
(asked on 8th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of home ownership in England in each National Statistics socio-economic classification category in each year since 2012.
The English Housing Survey has reported on NS-SEC classification of home owners since 2015-16. The details of this are set out in a table below. We have not published the socio-economic classification of home owners prior to 2015-16.
NS-SEC of Household Reference Person, Home owners, 2015-16 through 2016-17
NS-SEC classification | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
thousands of households |
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higher managerial and professional occupations | 2,933 | 2,802 |
lower managerial and professional occupations | 4,248 | 4,148 |
intermediate occupations | 1,531 | 1,664 |
small employers and own account workers | 1,456 | 1,512 |
lower supervisory and technical occupations | 1,067 | 1,130 |
semi-routine occupations | 1,320 | 1,411 |
routine occupations | 1,134 | 1,073 |
All households | 13,689 | 13,740 |
NS-SEC classification | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
percentages |
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higher managerial and professional occupations | 21.4 | 20.4 |
lower managerial and professional occupations | 31.0 | 30.2 |
intermediate occupations | 11.2 | 12.1 |
small employers and own account workers | 10.6 | 11.0 |
lower supervisory and technical occupations | 7.8 | 8.2 |
semi-routine occupations | 9.6 | 10.3 |
routine occupations | 8.3 | 7.8 |
All households | 100.0 | 100.0 |