What proportion of affordable housing in each local authority area is currently occupied by people over 60, also broken down by the categor…

Information on the current characteristics and composition of households in properties provided thorough particular affordable housing supply programmes is not held centrally. However information on the current age profile of all social rented households in Scotland is available and is published in section 3.2 of the statistical publication ‘Social Tenants in Scotland 2015’, available at http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/02/8350. This is based on an analysis of Scottish Household Survey data and shows that in the year 2015 an estimated 33 per cent of all social rented households were aged 60 or over, based on the age of the highest-income householder within the property.
The Scottish Household Survey is a face-to-face survey of a sample of people in private residences in Scotland, and so does not cover communal residences such as care homes. In addition the survey does not collect information on categories of affordable housing.
The following table provides estimates at a local authority area level of the proportion of social rented households with a highest income householder aged 60 years or over. Scottish Household Survey data has been combined across the three years 2013 to 2015 to provide more robust estimates at a local authority level.
Social rented households by local authority area, 2013 to 2015
- estimated percentages of households aged 60 years or over, based on the age of the highest income householder:
Local Authority
% Aged 60 years or over
Aberdeen City
37
Aberdeenshire
39
Angus
41
Argyll & Bute
37
Clackmannanshire
38
Dumfries & Galloway
33
Dundee City
34
East Ayrshire
35
East Dunbartonshire
36
East Lothian
39
East Renfrewshire
38
Edinburgh, City of
35
Eilean Siar
30
Falkirk
30
Fife
33
Glasgow City
31
Highland
36
Inverclyde
40
Midlothian
30
Moray
31
North Ayrshire
32
North Lanarkshire
33
Orkney Islands
41
Perth & Kinross
49
Renfrewshire
35
Scottish Borders
35
Shetland Islands
29
South Ayrshire
34
South Lanarkshire
40
Stirling
33
West Dunbartonshire
35
West Lothian
30
Scotland
35
Sample size:
7,360
Source: Scottish Household Survey 2013 to 2015
Note that the Scottish Household Survey is a sample survey and therefore the results provided are subject to a margin of error, and should be considered to be approximate estimates and not exact values. The margins of error for the local authority figures presented in this table range from +/- 2% in Glasgow (where the figure of 31% provided is estimated to be between 29% and 33%), up to +/- 4% in East Ayrshire (where the figure of 35% provided is estimated to be between 31% and 39%).