English Housing Survey live tables change note
Source: gov.uk (2025-07-17)

This change note provide information on changes to the English Housing Survey live tables following a review in spring 2024.

Introduction

This change notice advises users of changes to the English Housing Survey (EHS) live tables following a review to ensure the tables remain relevant and accessible. These changes will take effect from 18 July 2024, with additional changes being made on 17 July 2025.

The English Housing Survey (EHS) is a continuous national survey of people’s housing circumstances and condition and energy efficiency of housing in England, and is one of the longest running government surveys, first run in 1967. As such there is wealth of information, spanning many years. The aim of the EHS live tables is to provide this information in a consistent format in an easily accessible format to inform policy decisions on housing.

The EHS is badged as Accredited Official Statistics and as such follows the Code of Practice for Statistics (https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/the-code/), where statistics producers commit to ongoing development of statistics and data exploring innovations and reviewing whether to continue, discontinue, adapt or provide statistics through other means with users and other stakeholders.

The review

In the spring 2024, MHCLG held user engagement workshops looking at how we publish our EHS statistical releases and live tables, with the proposal that we move towards a more thematic approach for statistical reports and a consistent time series approach for live tables. This would allow us to be more ambitious with our reports, using our live tables to provide the business as usual data required every year and producing a more automated approach to the production of the tables.

We engaged with users both within and outside of the department to identify what we could do to improve the tables. We found that many tables would benefit from more detailed breakdowns and others could be combined to provide the data in one place. Some tables were found to be no longer relevant to current policy thinking, and as a result it was decided to discontinue these tables to make room for more relevant, new tables, bringing together a more up to date collection of data that could be used to inform policy decisions.

In addition to this, to improve navigability of the webpage, we have made small changes to the titles of the contents page for the tables to make it clearer what table are covered in each subsection.

What this means for users of the EHS live tables

Below is a summary of the results of the review, with the number of tables affected by improvements or discontinuation and those unaffected. In response to user feedback we have also created 4 new tables. The full results of the review can be found in Annex A. Subsequent amendments were also made in July 2025, the full list of which can be found in Annex B.

New tables

In response to user feedback MHCLG have created 4 new tables to present new data being collected on the EHS that will help with future policy development. These include:
- FT2232: Demographic and economic characteristics of owner occupier leaseholders and freeholders
- FT2233: Average annual ground rent and service charges for leaseholders
- DA8101: Electric vehicle (EV) charge points - dwellings
- DA8102: Electric vehicle (EV) charge points - households
Discontinued tables

To make way for new more relevant tables and reduce the burden on resource, table considered to be of less relevance were discontinued. However, should a user need a table, they can contact the team and ask for the relevant information at xxx@xxx.xx (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx).

Annex A: List of live tables and review results

Annex B: List of live tables amended in July 2025