Great Lever

Household Amenities & Overcrowding
The 2001 Census contained two questions relating to the amenities in a household: whether
or not a household had a bath/shower and toilet exclusively available for its use, and also
whether or not the dwelling had central heating. There was also a question on the number
of rooms which, combined with household information, was used by the ONS to calculate
overcrowding levels.
Great
Lever
(Numbers)
Great
Lever
(%)
Bolton
(%)
England
& Wales
(%)
With an occupancy rating of -1 or less 593 11.6 6.0 7.0
Without central heating 912 17.8 13.6 8.5
Without sole use of a bath/shower & toilet 26 0.5 0.3 0.5
Average number of rooms - 4.68 5.18 5.34
Source: Census 2001, Key Statistics Table KS19, ‘Rooms, amenities, central heating and lowest floor
level’, Crown Copyright.
Census 2001 Rooms & Amenities
Without sole use of a
bath/shower & toilet
England & Wales
Bolton MBC
Great Lever
Without central heating
With an occupancy rating of
–1 or less
0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18% 20%
% Total Households
• 18% of houses in Great Lever did not have central heating, compared to 14% in Bolton
and 9% in England & Wales. Less than 1% did not have sole use of a bath or shower
and toilet.
• Properties in Great Lever tended to be smaller, with an average of 4.68 rooms per
household, compared to 5.18 in Bolton and 5.34 in England & Wales.
• In 2001 Great Lever had 593 households, or around 12%, who suffered from
overcrowding and had an occupancy rating of -1 or less. This is significantly higher than
the Bolton and England & Wales figures of 6% and 7% respectively. The occupancy
rating provides a measure of under-occupancy & overcrowding; a value of -1 indicates
that there is one room too few and therefore overcrowding in the household 1 .
1 The occupancy rating assumes that every household, including one-person households, requires a
minimum of two common rooms, (excluding bathrooms).
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