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Households in temporary accommodation

Luton · 31 December 2025

On 31 December 2025, 932 households in Luton were living in temporary accommodation — 799 of them with children.

Read from MHCLG’s detailed local authority tables, table TA1, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.

932

households

In temporary accommodation in Luton on 31 December 2025

1,865 children were living in those 932 households.

That is 11.3 households in temporary accommodation for every 1,000 households in the area, of which there are about 82,513. The rate across England was 5.5.

That is the 3rd-highest rate of the 60 unitary authorities in the table.

That is 58 fewer than on 30 September 2025, when it was 990.

Rate among the unitary authorities, October to December 2025

  1. 1stSlough27.3 per 1,000
  2. 2ndBedford11.3 per 1,000
  3. 3rdLuton11.3 per 1,000
  4. 4thThurrock10.1 per 1,000
  5. 5thMilton Keynes7.0 per 1,000
  6. 6thPortsmouth6.8 per 1,000
  7. 7thReading6.1 per 1,000
  8. 8thNottingham5.3 per 1,000
  9. 9thSouthend-on-Sea5.2 per 1,000
  10. 10thMedway Towns5.1 per 1,000
  11. out of 60 unitary authorities 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

QuarterHouseholdsOf those, with childrenChildrenPer 1,000 households
2024 Q21,1049492,13414.3
2024 Q31,0729312,13713.8
2024 Q41,1219552,19414.5
2025 Q11,0989322,15714.2
2025 Q39908411,95812.0
2025 Q49327991,86511.3

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.