Facts & figures about Herefordshire

Housing

Key findings as identified in the 2011 State of Herefordshire Report and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment:

Weakness

• Herefordshire has the worst housing affordability ratio of all local authorities within the West Midlands region

Opportunity

• Affordable decent housing, public transport and clean streets are regarded as both important and needing to improve. However, when asked to trade-off investment in services the priories were, tackling traffic congestion, more support for families to protect vulnerable children and maintaining adult social care services.
• There was a decrease in the number of people applying and accepted as homeless in Herefordshire in 2010-11; following an increase between 2006-07 and 2008-09.

Threat and challenge

• A combination of already high proportions of pensioner households and an ageing population may result in an increasing need for certain types of suitable accommodation
• High demand for affordable properties in Herefordshire, in particular in Hereford City
• Stock condition of privately rented dwellings is worse than for other tenures
• Economic conditions are having an impact on the supply of affordable housing in Herefordshire

Reports of housing needs surveys can be found on the housing research page.  For general housing enquiries, please visit Herefordshire Council's housing department.  The housing department also produce a quarterly housing key facts sheet.

Links to individual topic pages

• Household tenure
• Household composition
• Dwellings by council tax band
• Homelessness
• Fuel Poverty
• Private rental and affordability  
• House prices and affordability 
• Barriers to housing and other services (Indices of Deprivation 2010)
• Deprivation of the indoor living environment (Indices of Deprivation 2010)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Last updated: 20 December 2011