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Households in temporary accommodation

Southampton · 31 December 2025

On 31 December 2025, 420 households in Southampton were living in temporary accommodation — 311 of them with children.

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

420

households

In temporary accommodation in Southampton on 31 December 2025

650 children were living in those 420 households.

That is 3.9 households in temporary accommodation for every 1,000 households in the area, of which there are about 107,907. The rate across England was 5.5.

That is the 14th-highest rate of the 60 unitary authorities in the table.

That is 6 more than on 30 September 2025, when it was 414.

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. 3 councils between
    14thSouthampton3.9 per 1,000
  12. 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 Q23442575003.3
2024 Q33522715233.4
2024 Q43532685273.4
2025 Q13712935813.6
2025 Q34143056233.8
2025 Q44203116503.9

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.