Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Households in temporary accommodation

Manchester · 31 December 2025

On 31 December 2025, 2,865 households in Manchester were living in temporary accommodation — 2,161 of them with children.

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

2,865

households

In temporary accommodation in Manchester on 31 December 2025

4,934 children were living in those 2,865 households.

That is 12.4 households in temporary accommodation for every 1,000 households in the area, of which there are about 231,460. The rate across England was 5.5.

That is the highest rate of the 36 metropolitan districts in the table.

That is 41 more than on 30 September 2025, when it was 2,824.

Rate among the metropolitan districts, October to December 2025

  1. 1stManchester12.4 per 1,000
  2. 2ndBirmingham11.8 per 1,000
  3. 3rdLiverpool8.0 per 1,000
  4. 4thCoventry7.9 per 1,000
  5. 5thSalford6.6 per 1,000
  6. 6thOldham5.2 per 1,000
  7. 7thTameside3.9 per 1,000
  8. 8thRochdale3.3 per 1,000
  9. 9thSheffield2.8 per 1,000
  10. 10thTrafford2.8 per 1,000
  11. out of 36 metropolitan districts 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 Q22,8132,0424,32612.8
2024 Q32,7752,0524,48312.6
2024 Q42,7002,0074,49812.2
2025 Q12,7402,0384,58712.4
2025 Q32,8242,1334,83912.2
2025 Q42,8652,1614,93412.4

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.