Households: Pensioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of households with a pensioner head of household in each tenure sector in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10; and what proportion of such heads of household was an owner-occupier in each of those years. (319337)

Estimates of the number and proportion of households with a pension age householder in 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 are given in the following tables. Data for 2009-10 is not yet available. The 2006-07 and 2007-08 estimates are based on data from the Survey of English Housing; data for 2008-09 is from the English Housing Survey.

*Pension age*¹ *households by tenure, England*
Thousands of households
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Owner occupiers	4,127	4,231	4,526
Social renters	1,376	1,316	1,220
Private renters	304	239	294
All tenures	5,806	5,785	6,040

Percentage of households
Owner occupiers	71	73	75
Social renters	24	23	20
Private renters	5	4	5
All tenures	100	100	100
¹ Male householder aged 65 or over, female aged 60 or over. Source: 2006-07 and 2007-08 CLG Survey of English Housing 2008-09 CLG English Housing Survey

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010