Housing
Housing is central to people’s lives and is vital to health and wellbeing. Delivering the right housing to meet the needs of Wiltshire residents involves making the best use of current housing assets, delivering new housing where needed and addressing the housing problems currently facing residents such as affordability, sustainability and suitability.
Here you can find a range of key indicators related to housing and households in the different areas of Wiltshire, including data on the different compositions of households, on patterns of tenure, empty homes and second homes, and on affordable housing need and supply, as well as information on house sales and domestic energy systems and costs.
The CAJSNA information is primarily shown in interactive charts. These allow the user to hover over them and show extra detail within a tooltip, as well as the ability to remove indicators by deselecting them from the legend.
Household composition
There is considerable variation in the composition of different households within Wiltshire. Salisbury has the highest overall proportion of one-person households (34%), but Bradford on Avon and South West Wiltshire Area Boards have the highest rates of older people living alone, at just under 18%, compared with a Wiltshire average of 13.9%. While living alone is not the same as experiencing social isolation or loneliness, it can compound these and represent a challenge especially for older individuals who may lack support networks. The household composition measure also shows that Tidworth and Trowbridge areas have the highest proportions of lone parent families with dependent children (6.6% and 7.6%, compared with the Wiltshire average of 5.3%). Lone parent families often face an elevated risk of economic hardship.
Definition: Percentage of households by composition. Census data published at Output Area (OA) level and assigned to Area Board based on the location of the OA's population-weighted centroid.
Data source and time period: Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census. Table TS003: Household composition. March 2021.