Private sector rent statistics: 2010 - 2020

Footnotes

1. Note that average rents that have changed within +/- 0.5% could be considered as being fairly similar to previous periods, given that there can be some variation each year in the profile and number of records included in the rental sample.

2. A definition and map of Broad Rental Market Areas is included in this publication in the Section on Broad Rental Market Area Profiles

3. Information is provided on means, medians, lower quartiles and upper quartiles. These statistical terms are defined in Annex B – Glossary of Terms

4. See Table 3.6d 'Housing characteristics by tenure - Number of bedrooms (Scotland, 2019)' at https://scotland.shinyapps.io/sg-scottish-household-survey-data-explorer/

5. ONS Consumer Price Inflation Tables, published on 21 October 2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/september2020

6. https://www.gov.scot/publications/local-housing-allowance-rates-2020-2021/

7. A Broad Rental Market Area for Local Housing Allowance purposes is defined as an area in which a person could reasonably be expected to live having regard to facilities and services for the purposes of health, education, recreation, personal banking and shopping, taking account of the distance of travel, by public and private transport, to and from those facilities and services

8. Means, medians, and lower and upper quartiles are defined in Annex B – Glossary of Terms.

9. See SHS 2019 results in Table 3.1a at https://scotland.shinyapps.io/sg-scottish-household-survey-data-explorer/

10. https://www.gov.scot/publications/housing-statistics-stock-by-tenure/

11. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/indexofprivatehousingrentalprices/september2020

12. https://www.gov.scot/publications/local-housing-allowance-rates-2020-2021/

13. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland

14. https://gov.wales/private-sector-rents-2019