Households in temporary accommodation
Sheffield (up to 202503) · 31 March 2025
On 31 March 2025, 689 households in Sheffield (up to 202503) were living in temporary accommodation — 248 of them with children.
Read from MHCLG’s detailed local authority tables, table TA1, in the vintage we archived on 12 August 2026.
689
households
In temporary accommodation in Sheffield (up to 202503) on 31 March 2025
585 children were living in those 689 households.
That is 2.7 households in temporary accommodation for every 1,000 households in the area, of which there are about 251,396. The rate across England was 5.4.
That is the 9th-highest rate of the 35 metropolitan districts in the table.
Rate among the metropolitan districts, January to March 2025
- out of 35 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
| Quarter | Households | Of those, with children | Children | Per 1,000 households |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q2 | not returned | — | — | — |
| 2024 Q3 | not returned | — | — | — |
| 2024 Q4 | not returned | — | — | — |
| 2025 Q1 | 689 | 248 | 585 | 2.7 |
| 2025 Q3 | not returned | — | — | — |
| 2025 Q4 | not returned | — | — | — |
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.
Pupil absence in schools
In the 2024/25 school year, pupils at state-funded primary, secondary and special schools in Sheffield missed 7.5% of their possible sessions — 1,949,977 sessions missed out of 25,882,559.
Read from DfE’s Pupil absence in schools in England through the Explore Education Statistics API, in the vintage we archived on 12 August 2026.
7.5%
of sessions missed
By pupils at state-funded primary, secondary and special schools in Sheffield, the 2024/25 school year
That is the 17th-highest overall absence rate of the 153 local authorities that reported the year.
The overall absence rate in 2023/24 was 8.0%, so it fell 0.5 percentage points.
The overall absence rate across England was 6.8%.
16,113 of the 75,710 pupil enrolments in Sheffield — 21.3% — missed 10% or more of their possible sessions that year, which is the threshold DfE calls persistent absence. An enrolment is a place at a school, so a child who changed school during the 2024/25 school year is counted twice.
2,781 enrolments — 3.7% — missed half or more of their possible sessions, which DfE calls severe absence.
A session is half a school day — a morning or an afternoon — so a pupil in school all year has about 380 of them. Overall absence counts every session missed, authorised and unauthorised together; most authorised absence is illness.
Overall absence rate among local authorities, the 2024/25 school year
- … 6 authorities between
- out of 153 local authorities that reported the year
The share of possible sessions missed, which is the publisher’s own figure. Every local authority is in one ranking here: unlike a count, a share of an authority’s own sessions asks the same question of a county and a London borough. An authority that did not report the year is absent from the ranking rather than counted as nil.
Every school year we hold
| School year | Overall absence | Sessions missed | Possible sessions | Persistent absence | Severe absence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018/19 | 5.1% | 1,272,415 | 24,731,684 | 13.0% | 1.2% |
| 2020/21 | 5.6% | 1,408,280 | 24,945,497 | 16.0% | 1.9% |
| 2021/22 | 7.9% | 2,013,295 | 25,331,832 | 23.8% | 2.2% |
| 2022/23 | 8.2% | 2,036,829 | 24,881,008 | 24.3% | 3.0% |
| 2023/24 | 8.0% | 2,080,912 | 26,170,577 | 22.7% | 3.4% |
| 2024/25 | 7.5% | 1,949,977 | 25,882,559 | 21.3% | 3.7% |
2019/20 is missing from this table. DfE published no full-year absence statistics on this basis for the year schools closed, so it is a gap in the publisher’s record rather than a year in which nothing was counted. Any comparison on this page names the school year it actually used.
Each row is a whole school year, September to July, for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Persistent absence is an enrolment that missed 10% or more of its possible sessions; severe absence is one that missed half or more. Both are shares of enrolments, not of pupils.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
In August 2026, 16,735 people in Sheffield were claiming unemployment-related benefits.
Read from the NOMIS query for August 2026, in the vintage we archived on 11 October 2026.
16,735
people
Claiming unemployment-related benefits in Sheffield, August 2026
That is 4.4 per cent of the area’s residents aged 16 to 64: 16,735 claimants against an estimated 381,601 residents of that age in 2026, which is the denominator the publisher divides by.
That is the joint 70th-highest rate of the 361 local authorities in the United Kingdom.
That is 130 more than in August 2025, when it was 16,605 — a change of 1 per cent.
The claimant count is people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, or Universal Credit while required to look for work. It is not a count of unemployed people and the Office for National Statistics does not present it as one. Local authority counts are rounded to the nearest five by the publisher, so a difference of five is not a difference. This series is not seasonally adjusted at local authority level, so it is compared with the same month a year earlier rather than with the month before.
Rate among UK local authorities, August 2026
- 1stBirmingham10.1%
- joint 2ndBarking and Dagenham7.4%
- joint 2ndHaringey7.4%
- joint 2ndNewham7.4%
- joint 5thBrent7.2%
- joint 5thEnfield7.2%
- joint 7thBradford6.9%
- joint 7thHackney6.9%
- 9thLewisham6.8%
- joint 10thSandwell6.7%
- … 59 authorities betweenjoint 70thSheffield4.4%
- out of 361 local authorities in the release
Claimants as a proportion of residents aged 16 to 64, which is the publisher’s own rate. Every local authority in the United Kingdom is in this ranking, because the rate is already a proportion of the resident population. An authority with no rate published for the month is absent from it rather than counted as nil.
The last 13 months
| Month | Claimants | Per cent of residents aged 16–64 |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 16,605 | 4.4% |
| Sep 2025 | 16,520 | 4.3% |
| Oct 2025 | 16,525 | 4.3% |
| Nov 2025 | 16,105 | 4.2% |
| Dec 2025 | 15,825 | 4.1% |
| Jan 2026 | 15,950 | 4.2% |
| Feb 2026 | 16,365 | 4.3% |
| Mar 2026 | 16,515 | 4.3% |
| Apr 2026 | 16,480 | 4.3% |
| May 2026 | 16,335 | 4.3% |
| Jun 2026 | 16,340 | 4.3% |
| Jul 2026 | 16,395 | 4.3% |
| Aug 2026 | 16,735 | 4.4% |
The whole series we hold — sixty months, and the population estimates the rates are divided by — is at data/claimant-count/series/sheffield.csv.