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Housing quality

There has been a steady improvement in energy efficiency and reducing the share of homes with damp in the English housing stock, but one-in-10 private renters are still living in damp homes and there is a long way to go to get more homes with EPC ratings of C+.

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Homes with damp

Private renters are most likely to live in damp homes.

Proportion of homes with damp

Notes

Data covers to financial years to increase the sample size so the data for 2020 represents data collected between April 2019 to March 2021.

Source

RF analysis of MHCLG, English Housing Survey.

Data

Update frequency: annual. Next update: Q4, 2026.

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