Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY• Around 15% of key worker households had moved in the last five years, below that of nonkeyworkers; they were more likely to have moved from social rented accommodation thannon-key workers• Key worker households are more likely to want to move within the City and are more likelyto want to buy their own home• Key worker households have slightly higher incomes than non-key worker households (inemployment)• Some 52.5% of key worker households can afford market housing in the City. Of those thatcannot afford it, 88.1% can afford intermediate housing options• In terms of the need for affordable housing the study suggests that around 0.8% of the netaffordable housing requirement comes from key worker householdsBlack & Minority Ethnic householdsInformation was gathered in the survey to find out the ethnic origin of the head of household (andpartner if applicable) for each sample household in the survey. Due to the small sample size of someof the groups, some of the categories have been re-classified, resulting in nine different ethnicgroups. The table below shows estimates of the number of households in each of the nine ethnicgroups.Ethnic groupNumber of households in each ethnic groupTotal number ofhouseholds% of householdsWhite - British 65,921 58.7%White - Irish 4,914 4.4%White - Other 17,195 15.3%Mixed 3,021 2.7%Asian or Asian British 7,213 6.4%Black or Black British - African 5,604 5.0%Black or Black British - Other 2,173 1.9%Arab 4,439 3.9%Any other ethnic group 1,914 1.7%All households 112,395 100.0%Source: City of Westminster Housing Needs Survey 2006The survey indicates that Mixed households have the highest average household size with anestimated 3.33 persons per household. In contrast White - British households have the lowestaverage household size at 1.74 persons per household. These figures compare with a City averageof 1.96 persons per household.PAGE 11