% of Persons in Households with over 1.5 person per room
R_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN = (HOUS_DENSITY_GEN:over_150 * 100.0) / HOUS_DENSITY_TOT:total
| Data Role | Period Covered | Authority | Source | Details | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOUS_DENSITY_GEN:over_150 | 1971 | SRC | GBH Source Documentation System | 1971 Census of England and Wales, County Report Part II, Table 24 , 'Persons in permanent buildings by density of occupation (persons per room)', for 'AC, CB, Urban areas with populations of 50,000 or more, Aggregates of MB and UD and aggregates of RD, NT and Con Centres. Urban Areas with populations of less than 50,000 and RD' | Exact count provided by a government statistical office for this area |
These figures record the percentage of people living in households with
more than one and a half people per room (not counting bathrooms and corridors).
Note that this measure cannot be calculated for Scotland in 1931 or 1951.
The figures for 1931 are for 'families', not households, and the total
number of families excludes those with more than five rooms.
Housing in the north-east resembled that in Scotland, with fewer but larger rooms,
while in the north-west of England people lived in terraced houses with lots of small rooms.
In the 1950s and 1960s very active slum clearance programmes, construction of 'overspill' estates
and new towns, and middle class families being able to afford better homes all led to great improvements.
By 1971 only 6% of households in England and Wales had less than one room per person.
The concentration of bad conditions in the north-east and London remained,
although the north-east saw remarkable improvement in its relative position during the 1970s.