Who we engaged with

Stock/ property type

• The highest proportion of tenants live in a flat or maisonette in a low-rise building with fewer than seven floors (58%), whilst 28% live in a house, 14% live in a flat in a high-rise building (of seven or more floors), and just 1% live in a bungalow
• The majority of tenants are in general needs accommodation (95%), whilst 4% are in supported/ sheltered housing, and 1% in temporary social housing

Area/ repairs contractor

• The highest proportion of tenants live in Leigh Park (27%), followed by Paulsgrove (19%), Somerstown (17%) and Buckland (16%)
• Tenants are almost evenly split in terms of repairs contractor

Length of tenure/ household size

• The highest proportion of tenants responding have lived in their current home for 11 or more years (45%), followed by 28% who have lived in their home for 1-5 years
• Just under a third of tenants responding are single tenants, whilst just over half have between two to four people living in their household (57%)
• There is a visible divide in the ages of single person households: 44%-60% of those aged 55+ report living alone, compared to 2%-15% of those under the age of 55. Tenants aged 18-44 are most likely to live in households of three or more people (60%+)

This chart shows that:
58% of respondents live in a flat in a high-rise building (more than 7 floors)
28% live in a house
13% live in a flat/ maisonette in a low-rise building (fewer than 7 floors)
1% live in a bungalow

This chart shows that:
95% live in General needs accommodation
4% live in supported/ sheltered housing
1% live in Temporary social housing

This chart shows that:
27% live in Leigh Park
19% live in Paulsgrove
17% live in Somerstown
16% live in Buckland
11% live in Landport
5% live in Wecock Farm
5% live in Portsea

This chart shows that:
51% are managed by Comserv
49% are manager by Mountjoy

This chart shows that:
9% of respondents have lived in their home for Less than a year
28% have lived in their home for 1-5 years
18% have lived in their home for 6-10 years
45% have lived in their home for 11+ years

This chart shows how many people live in the respondents’ home:
32% have One person in their household
29% have Two people in their household
18% have Three people in their household
10% have Four people in their household
5% have Five people in their household
4% have Six people in their household
Less than 1% have Seven people in their household
2% have Eight or more people in their household

This chart shows how many people live in respondents’ homes by age:
of those aged 18-24 years, 2% have one person, 29% have two people, 35% have three, 18% have four, 13% have five, 2% have six, and 1% have seven.
of those aged 25-34 years, 13% have one person, 27% have two people, 22% have three, 19% have four, 12% have five, 5% have six, and 2% have seven.
of those aged 35-44 years, 15% have one person, 16% have two people, 24% have three, 18% have four, 12% have five, 8% have six, and 7% have eight.
of those aged 45-54 years, 14% have one person, 33% have two people, 24% have three, 13% have four, 4% have five, 8% have six, 3% have seven, and 2% have eight.
of those aged 55-64 years, 44% have one person, 33% have two people, 19% have three, 4% have four, and 1% have five.
of those aged 65+ years, 60% have one person, 33% have two people, 4% have three, 1% have four, and 2% have six.