Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

Westminster – Housing Needs Assessment 2006The survey collected information that enables the pattern of migration of households into the Cityof Westminster to be considered over several moves. Households were asked to identify thelocation of both their previous home and the home they lived in before that. The table belowconsiders the routes of migration into Westminster from elsewhere in London. It presents the(Housing Corporation) sub-region of household’s previous home against the sub-region of theirsecond to last home for households whose previous two homes were elsewhere in London. Toensure that the sample size is sufficient it is necessary to analyse data for households that moved totheir current home in the last five years.Last homeTable 4.12 Previous homes outside WestminsterNorthEastSecond to last homeSouthEastSouthWest West TotalNorth 1,693 115 454 546 195 3,003East 1,148 81 221 387 54 1,891South East 19 18 700 29 0 766South West 23 0 139 355 55 572West 19 293 177 13 1,059 1,561TOTAL 2,902 507 1,691 1,330 1,363 7,793Source: City of Westminster Housing Needs Survey 2006The data indicates that households previously resident in the North sub-region were likely to moveelsewhere within the North sub-region before they moved to City of Westminster. Householdspreviously resident in the West sub-region were also likely to move within the sub-region beforethey moved to the City of Westminster. The data also indicates that households previously residentin the South West were likely to move to the North sub-region before they moved into Westminster.Surprisingly a significant number of households previously resident in the North sub-region movedto the East sub-region before they moved into Westminster.It is also of interest to look at households’ past and current tenure. The table below shows thisinformation for households that moved to their current home in the last two years. The table showsthat the majority of households remained within the same tenure, however over half of householdsthat were previously owner-occupiers moved into the private rented sector. The data suggests thatjust 11.6% of newly forming households moved to owner-occupation with 81.8% moving to theprivate rented sector and the remaining 6.6% moving to the social rented sector.PAGE 44