Dwelling stock by tenure

Lancashire-12 results

The 2023 results indicate a total dwelling stock of 570,247 for the Lancashire-12 area, of which, 87.7% was owner occupied or privately rented. This was above the England average of 83.3%, and is because Lancashire has much less accommodation in local authority ownership than the national average. Only Lancaster (5.5%) and West Lancashire (11.2%) had large numbers of dwellings within this category. For 2023 Chorley had fewer than 150 local authority owned dwellings, Burnley had 20, while Hyndburn, Rossendale, Ribble Valley and Pendle had just 35 between them. Fylde, Preston, South Ribble and Wyre had none

All of the Lancashire-12 authorities had over 80% of their dwellings in the owner-occupied and privately rented sector, and in Fylde, Lancaster, Ribble Valley and Wyre the figure was 90% or over.

Registered social landlords accounted for over 10% of dwellings in seven Lancashire-12 local authorities and in the county itself. These included Preston where 18.6% of dwellings were of this tenure, highest in Lancashire-12 and joint highest in the Lancashire-14 area. This meant that this authority had the lowest percentage in the Lancashire-12 and Lancashire-14 areas for the owner occupied and privately rented sector.

Lancashire-14 results

In 2023 the whole Lancashire-14 area had a total dwelling stock of 706,625 of which 87.4% was owner occupied or privately rented. This was also above the England average. In Blackpool 90.1% of the dwelling stock was owner-occupied and privately rented, while in Blackburn with Darwen the percentage was only 81.7, the second lowest in the Lancashire-14 area. Conversely, Blackburn with Darwen had the second highest percentage of stock in the registered social landlord sector in the whole Lancashire-14 area at 18.3%. The percentage of dwelling stock in Blackpool owned by the local authority was 6.5%, just a little above the England percentage (6.2%).

The total number of dwellings has increased in all of the Lancashire local authorities since 2022, when the Lancashire-12 figure stood at 564,218. 

Dwelling stock by tenure, 2023 (Table scrolls left to right)

Area Total dwelling stock Owner occupied and privately rented Registered social landlords Local authority Other public sector
Number % Number % Number % Number %
Burnley 42,540 36,040 84.7 6,480 15.2 20 0.0 0 0
Chorley 52,907 45,627 86.2 7,115 13.4 149 0.3 16 0
Fylde 41,544 38,040 91.6 3,252 7.8 0 0 252 0.6
Hyndburn 37,609 32,594 86.7 5,011 13.3 4 0 0 0
Lancaster 66,046 59,420 90.0 2,984 4.5 3,642 5.5 0 0
Pendle 41,591 36,918 88.8 4,668 11.2 5 0 0 0
Preston 66,025 53,599 81.2 12,286 18.6 0 0 140 0.2
Ribble Valley 29,730 27,414 92.2 2,292 7.7 9 0 15 0.1
Rossendale 32,637 27,943 85.6 4,665 14.3 17 0.1 12 0
South Ribble  51,807 46,421 89.6 5,386 10.4 0 0 0 0
West Lancashire 52,244 44,766 85.7 1,649 3.2 5,829 11.2 0 0
Wyre 55,567 51,373 92.5 4,194 7.5 0 0 0 0
Lancashire-12 570,247 500,155 87.7 59,982 10.5 9,675 1.7 435 0.1
Blackburn with Darwen 63,225 51,630 81.7 11,583 18.3 0 0 12 0
Blackpool 73,153 65,946 90.1 2,433 3.3 4,774 6.5 0 0
Lancashire-14 706,625 617,731 87.4 73,998 10.5 14,449 2.0 447 0.1
England 25,396,447 21,148,395 83.3 2,645,328 10.4 1,571,456 6.2 31,268 0.1

Source  GOV.UK website, live tables on dwelling stock, Table 100

A dwelling is defined as a self contained unit of accommodation: when all the rooms (including the kitchen, bathroom and toilet) are behind a door which only that household can use.

Private-sector data on rental levels in Lancashire  

The Zoopla website is said to be a leading UK market resource for properties to sale or rent. The website has a current values section (go to browse property current values by area option) that contains the Lancashire results within the North West England option. By clicking on the Lancashire option, details are revealed for the average sale prices and rental levels for a large number of towns in the county. Please also see the data page for Lancashire that includes the current price breakdown by property type and the average property rental price. 

Social housing 

Homes England is the national housing and regeneration agency for England. It works with local partners to create new affordable homes and thriving neighbourhoods. There is now a separate Regulator of Social Housing, but the two bodies were previously combined and known as the Homes and Communities Agency.

The government publishes details of current registered providers of social housing. The list includes a selection of organisations that have an address within Lancashire-14.  A number are sub-sections of larger groups, whilst others target particular age cohorts such as the elderly. The list includes the Progress Housing Group and Ribble Valley Homes, now part of Onward Homes Limited. Other organisations that do not have a Lancashire address will however have social housing sites in the county, or incorporate sub-groups in Lancashire that are independently listed as providers. For instance, the Together Housing Group has a Halifax address but covers Pendle, Blackburn with Darwen, Rossendale, Ribble Valley, South Ribble and Preston.  

The Regenda Group website states that the organisation has around 3,500 properties in Lancashire. The find a home to rent page highlights the fact that the group has a substantial presence in Wyre district.  

Page updated July 2024.

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