Non-decent homes and damp, England
The shares of homes in England that fail the Decent Homes Standard, in all tenures and by tenure, since 2006, and with any damp problem since 1996, from the English Housing Survey's headline report on housing quality.
Non-decent homes
15.44%
2024 · of dwellings; 5.5% with any damp problem
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC- Non-decent homes
- Non-decent homes, owner occupied
- Non-decent homes, private rented
- Non-decent homes, social
- Homes with any damp problem
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
24 periods, newest first
| Period | Non-decent homes | Non-decent homes, owner occupied | Non-decent homes, private rented | Non-decent homes, social | Homes with any damp problem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15.44% | 14.75% | 22.28% | 10.17% | 5.46% |
| 2023 | 14.96% | 14.30% | 21.13% | 10.33% | 5.25% |
| 2022 | 14.7% | 13.7% | 21.3% | 10.4% | 4.08% |
| 2021 | 14.34% | 13.17% | 22.90% | 9.60% | 3.81% |
| 2020 | 15.03% | 13.83% | 22.85% | 11.30% | 4.00% |
| 2019 | 16.99% | 16.32% | 23.30% | 12.29% | 3.36% |
| 2018 | 17.84% | 17.27% | 24.60% | 12.03% | 3.31% |
| 2017 | 18.82% | 18.67% | 24.53% | 12.68% | 3.75% |
| 2016 | 19.91% | 19.66% | 26.80% | 12.59% | 4.16% |
| 2015 | 19.41% | 18.26% | 28.47% | 12.98% | 4.44% |
| 2014 | 19.84% | 18.62% | 28.65% | 14.32% | 4.26% |
| 2013 | 20.58% | 19.39% | 29.82% | 14.70% | 4.29% |
| 2012 | 21.78% | 20.30% | 33.14% | 15.22% | 4.27% |
| 2011 | 23.57% | 22.29% | 35.02% | 16.76% | 4.56% |
| 2010 | 26.52% | 25.57% | 37.20% | 19.86% | 6.52% |
| 2009 | 30.09% | 29.25% | 40.83% | 23.24% | 8.06% |
| 2008 | 33.09% | 32.26% | 43.97% | 27.16% | 7.85% |
| 2007 | 34.66% | 34.09% | 45.44% | 29.35% | 8.64% |
| 2006 | 34.88% | 34.42% | 46.70% | 28.83% | 9.81% |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | 10.14% |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | 10.41% |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | 10.63% |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | 9.58% |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | 12.79% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:14 UTC
- Raw files fetched
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Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC; 120 of 120 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:14:10Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 120 of 120 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 120 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 120 of 120 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2024-12-31 ended 677 days before retrieval (limit 820), from Chapter 1: Housing quality annex tables |
| Not run | Second official route | No second route publishes these shares: the English Housing Survey is the only survey of the condition of England's homes, and its other tables give them by region or by kind of dwelling from the same sample. |
| Pass | The tenures add up | 55 of 55 cases of the years' dwellings in the private and social sectors and all tenures are the sums of their parts, in thousands, within their own rounding |
| Pass | Both tables are of one stock of dwellings | 19 of 19 years' non-decent homes over their share give the stock that homes with damp over theirs give, within each figure's rounding, or differ by MHCLG's own pinned difference (2007, 2010, 2015) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- The share of dwellings in England that fail the Decent Homes Standard, and the share with any damp problem (rising damp, penetrating damp or condensation and mould), as Annex Tables 1.4 and 1.9 of the English Housing Survey's headline report on housing quality give them: from the English House Condition Survey's dwelling sample to 2007 and the English Housing Survey's from 2008.
- Surveyors could not inspect homes inside during the pandemic, so MHCLG modelled its 2020 and 2021 figures and marks 2020 '(R)'; it did not collect the kinds of damp from 2020 to 2022, though it gives all damp problems. MHCLG's ways of rating energy efficiency changed in 2010, 2013 and 2018, which bears on the Decent Homes Standard's thermal comfort test.