Current status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many council houses occupied by one person have (a) two bedrooms, (b) three bedrooms and (c) four bedrooms, broken down by local authority.
The best source of data on household size by number of bedrooms is the Scottish House Condition Survey. Due to the size of sample in this survey, it is necessary to combine data from different years to get reasonable sample sizes for local authority areas.
The following table shows the number of single-person households in council housing with more than one bedroom, by local authority and based on Scottish House Condition Survey data for 2005-06, 2007 and 2008 combined.
As these figures come from a survey, the figures are estimates and are also rounded to the nearest thousand. The 95% confidence interval is generally about +/- 1,000 for each local authority figure and about +/- 4,000 for Scotland. The 95% confidence interval is used to determine a range of values within which we believe the true value lies, for example we believe the Scotland total to actually lie somewhere between 81,000 and 89,000 households. The sample size for all of the individual local authority data is very small and therefore these results should be treated with caution.
| Local Authority | Number of Bedrooms | Total | ||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Aberdeen City | 3,000 | - | - | 4,000 |
| Aberdeenshire | 2,000 | - | - | 3,000 |
| Angus | 1,000 | - | - | 1,000 |
| Argyll and Bute | 1,000 | - | - | 1,000 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1,000 | - | - | 1,000 |
| Dundee City | 4,000 | - | - | 4,000 |
| East Ayrshire | 3,000 | - | - | 3,000 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1,000 | - | - | 1,000 |
| East Lothian | 2,000 | 1,000 | - | 3,000 |
| East Renfrewshire | - | - | - | 1,000 |
| City of Edinburgh | 6,000 | 2,000 | - | 7,000 |
| Falkirk | 3,000 | 1,000 | - | 4,000 |
| Fife | 7,000 | 2,000 | - | 9,000 |
| Highland | 3,000 | - | - | 4,000 |
| Inverclyde | 1,000 | - | - | 1,000 |
| Midlothian | 1,000 | - | - | 1,000 |
| Moray | 1,000 | - | - | 1,000 |
| North Ayrshire | 4,000 | 1,000 | - | 5,000 |
| North Lanarkshire | 9,000 | 2,000 | - | 11,000 |
| Orkney Islands | - | - | - | - |
| Perth and Kinross | 1,000 | - | - | 2,000 |
| Renfrewshire | 2,000 | 2,000 | - | 4,000 |
| Shetland Islands | - | - | - | - |
| South Ayrshire | 1,000 | - | - | 2,000 |
| South Lanarkshire | 4,000 | 1,000 | - | 5,000 |
| Stirling | 1,000 | 1,000 | - | 2,000 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 2,000 | 1,000 | - | 3,000 |
| West Lothian | 3,000 | 1,000 | - | 3,000 |
| Scotland | 69,000 | 16,000 | - | 85,000 |
Notes:
- Less than 500 or zero.
The sum of the columns and rows may not add up to the total due to rounding.