The numbers of urban, suburban and rural households in fuel poverty in England are presented for all available years since 1996 using the current fuel poverty methodology. The analyses for the years 2003 and 2004 have been done using the respective combined years’ datasets of the English House Condition Survey.
Note that all figures are quoted to the nearest 100,000 households. Because of rounding, totals may not sum to the official fuel poverty statistics. Small inter-year variations may also be due to rounding and may not be statistically significant.
Thousand 1996 2001 2003 2004 Urban 1200 500 400 300 Suburban 3000 800 500 600 Rural 1000 500 300 300
1996 2001 2003 2004 Urban 282 93 70 68 Suburban 253 72 48 50 Rural 258 110 76 74