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TA out of area rate

households per 1,000 households · extracted · local authority (England)

For every 1,000 households living in the area, how many homeless households the council has placed in temporary accommodation outside its own boundaries — families moved away from their schools, jobs, doctors and relatives because nothing affordable exists locally. Scaling by the area's size makes big and small councils comparable. High means uprooting people is routine; low means it is rare.

councils

180

median

0.42

0.17

1.38

min

0.03

max

31.76

Distribution

Worst 10

Council	Class	Value	In its class
Westminster	london	31.76	1st worst of 33
Newham	london	25.09	2nd worst of 33
Lambeth	london	18.19	3rd worst of 33
Hackney	london	16.05	4th worst of 33
Southwark	london	14.16	5th worst of 33
Haringey	london	13.97	6th worst of 33
Wandsworth	london	13.4	7th worst of 33
Redbridge	london	13.29	8th worst of 33
Islington	london	12.33	9th worst of 33
Hammersmith & Fulham	london	11.62	10th worst of 33

Best 10

Council	Class	Value	In its class
Wiltshire	unitary	0.03	1st best of 31
Durham	unitary	0.03	2nd best of 31
North Yorkshire Council (UA)	unitary	0.04	3rd best of 31
Somerset Council (UA)	unitary	0.04	4th best of 31
Barnsley	metropolitan	0.04	1st best of 21
Sunderland	metropolitan	0.05	2nd best of 21
Coventry	metropolitan	0.05	3rd best of 21
Southampton	unitary	0.06	5th best of 31
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	unitary	0.06	6th best of 31
Wolverhampton	metropolitan	0.07	4th best of 21

Definition

name	ta_out_of_area_rate
dataset	06-hclic-temporary-accommodation
kind	extracted
type	rate
unit	households per 1,000 households
grain	local authority (England)
role	outcome
source	data/Statutory_Homelessness_Detailed_Local_Authority_Data_202603.ods, sheet TA9, col 3 '…(per thousand households)'
period	Quarter-end snapshot, 31 March 2026 (Q4 FY2025-26); quarterly series from 2018 Q2; same columns in 202512_revised and 2024-25 annual files
missingness	Small counts rounded and some values suppressed; some LAs miss or partially complete H-CLIC returns and are imputed/flagged by MHCLG (see Notes sheet); previous-quarter figures routinely revised.
score_note	MHCLG's own size-adjusted out-of-area measure, cleanest of the three out-of-area variants.
calculated	calculated/ta-out-of-area-rate.csv
calculated_rows	365
calculated_periods	2025-26-Q3 to 2025-26-Q4
calculated_date	2026-08-13
peer_group	districts (n=111), unitaries (n=35), London boroughs (n=33), metropolitan boroughs (n=23) — scored within each class against its median/IQR

Out-of-area TA placements per 1,000 households in the area, as published by MHCLG. Size-adjusted version of the out-of-area count for cross-council comparison. Same TA9 caveats: no England/region rows, rounded small counts.