Households in temporary accommodation
Colchester · 31 December 2025
On 31 December 2025, 466 households in Colchester were living in temporary accommodation — 223 of them with children.
Read from MHCLG’s detailed local authority tables, table TA1, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.
466
households
In temporary accommodation in Colchester on 31 December 2025
521 children were living in those 466 households.
That is 5.5 households in temporary accommodation for every 1,000 households in the area, of which there are about 84,471. The rate across England was 5.5.
That is the 15th-highest rate of the 162 district councils in the table.
That is 25 more than on 30 September 2025, when it was 441.
Rate among the district councils, October to December 2025
- … 4 councils between
- out of 162 district councils in the table
Households in temporary accommodation for every 1,000 households in the area, which is the publisher’s own figure. Councils are compared with councils of their own kind — the table’s only classification is the ONS code — because a London borough beside a rural district is arithmetic without meaning. Councils that did not return data are absent from the ranking rather than counted as nil.
Every quarter we hold
| Quarter | Households | Of those, with children | Children | Per 1,000 households |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q2 | 310 | 153 | 382 | 3.7 |
| 2024 Q3 | 383 | 181 | 424 | 4.5 |
| 2024 Q4 | 407 | 200 | 468 | 4.8 |
| 2025 Q1 | 438 | 215 | 499 | 5.1 |
| 2025 Q3 | 441 | 222 | 520 | 5.2 |
| 2025 Q4 | 466 | 223 | 521 | 5.5 |
April to June 2025 is missing from this table. MHCLG published that quarter in a spreadsheet format this pipeline cannot read, so we do not hold it. It is a gap in our record, not a quarter in which nothing was counted, and any comparison on this page names the quarter it actually used.
Each row is a count on one day at the end of the quarter, not a total for the quarter, and it counts households rather than people. A council that did not return data is shown as such; it is never read as nil.