The number of homeless households the council houses in ordinary private rented flats and houses leased for use as temporary accommodation — self-contained homes, better than B&Bs or hostels, but rented from private landlords at market-driven cost. A high count means the council depends on the private market to house its homeless; a low count means it relies more on its own stock or on cruder options like B&Bs.
| name | ta_private_sector_total |
|---|---|
| dataset | 06-hclic-temporary-accommodation |
| kind | extracted |
| type | count |
| unit | households |
| grain | local authority (England) |
| role | feature |
| source | data/Statutory_Homelessness_Detailed_Local_Authority_Data_202603.ods, sheet TA1, col 16 'Households in private sector accommodationTotal' |
| 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 | Middle-cost mix component with limited standalone signal. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Households in leased private-sector temporary accommodation at quarter end. A middle-cost TA type — cheaper and more stable than B&B or nightly lets, but dependent on local private-rental supply. Snapshot count.