How much the council spends per year, on average, for each homeless household it keeps in temporary accommodation. It is the unit cost of the emergency housing safety net: the same family costs far more in a nightly-paid B&B than in a council-owned flat. A high figure suggests the council is buying expensive last-resort accommodation; a low figure suggests it houses people in cheaper, usually better, settings.
| Council | Class | Value | In its class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rossendale | district | 79,760 | 1st worst of 164 |
| West Devon | district | 68,308 | 2nd worst of 164 |
| Spelthorne | district | 60,301 | 3rd worst of 164 |
| Pendle | district | 56,270 | 4th worst of 164 |
| Erewash | district | 48,049 | 5th worst of 164 |
| Newark & Sherwood | district | 46,054 | 6th worst of 164 |
| North East Derbyshire | district | 44,941 | 7th worst of 164 |
| Derbyshire Dales | district | 44,000 | 8th worst of 164 |
| Stafford BC | district | 43,860 | 9th worst of 164 |
| Woking BC | district | 43,801 | 10th worst of 164 |
| Council | Class | Value | In its class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broxtowe | district | -13,478 | 1st best of 164 |
| Three Rivers | district | -8,513 | 2nd best of 164 |
| Wiltshire UA | unitary | -8,228 | 1st best of 61 |
| City of London | london | -6,904 | 1st best of 33 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | district | -6,833 | 3rd best of 164 |
| Teignbridge | district | -5,452 | 4th best of 164 |
| Tameside | metropolitan | -3,650 | 1st best of 34 |
| Trafford | metropolitan | -3,117 | 2nd best of 34 |
| Gosport | district | -2,526 | 5th best of 164 |
| Eastleigh | district | -2,243 | 6th best of 164 |
| name | ta_spend_per_household_in_ta |
|---|---|
| dataset | 06-hclic-temporary-accommodation |
| kind | constructed |
| type | ratio |
| unit | £ per household per year |
| grain | local authority (England) |
| role | outcome |
| source | RO4 net TA spend (01-revenue-outturn, RO4 housing homelessness/TA lines) ÷ ta_households_total (TA1 col 2), same FY — use the 2024-2025_corrected annual file |
| period | Financial year 2024-25 |
| missingness | Unknown for RO4 side; H-CLIC side: exclude England/region rows; treat suppressed/imputed values as missing, not zero; use the same LA code vintage on both sides of any cross-dataset join (reorganised councils change codes); inputs carry the H-CLIC rounding/imputation caveats. RO4 spend covers the financial year while TA1 is a point-in-time snapshot — use the FY-average of the four quarterly snapshots (or the annual file's figure) as the denominator where possible. |
| score_note | The unit-cost headline for the dataset; strongest efficiency signal but needs a cross-dataset RO4 join. |
| calculated | calculated/ta-spend-per-household-in-ta.csv |
| calculated_rows | 292 |
| calculated_periods | 2024-25 |
| calculated_date | 2026-08-13 |
| peer_group | districts (n=164), unitaries (n=61), metropolitan boroughs (n=34), London boroughs (n=33) — scored within each class against its median/IQR |
Unit cost of a TA placement: annual net temporary-accommodation spend divided by the TA caseload — the headline efficiency measure for this dataset. High values point to expensive placement mixes (B&B, nightly lets) or poor procurement. Compare like-for-like councils, and mind the stock/flow mismatch between annual spend and snapshot caseload.