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Data Provider: Welsh Government Tenancies in arrears at 31 March by local authority area and duration
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[Collapse]ProviderData from Registered Social Landlords is available from 2008-09 onwards. <br />For 2022-23, one RSL (Bron Afon) was unable to submit data on rent arrears.  Therefore information provided by Bron Afon for 2021-22 has been used to calculate a Wales total.[Filtered]
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YearData from Registered Social Landlords is available from 2008-09 onwards. [Filtered]
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[Collapse]DurationThe arrears amount for each account at the end of the year is divided by the weekly gross rent for that account to give the number of weeks in arrears. [Filter]
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Click here to sortLess than 13 weeks of arrearsClick here to sort13 weeks or more arrears
Wales435,58038,599474,179
Isle of Anglesey7,6188088,426
Gwynedd11,6721,12612,798
Conwy9,4891,40910,898
Denbighshire8,0181,4819,499
Flintshire15,7493,22118,970
Wrexham18,0721,31119,383
Powys11,26271811,980
Ceredigion6,4402546,694
Pembrokeshire16,5342,25118,785
Carmarthenshire18,1971,71119,908
Swansea46,4864,10050,586
Neath Port Talbot25,1431,55326,696
Bridgend13,54895314,501
Vale of Glamorgan13,0911,12114,212
Cardiff52,8865,81358,699
Rhondda Cynon Taf33,6931,79735,490
Merthyr Tydfil14,63480015,434
Caerphilly29,7783,35033,128
Blaenau Gwent15,48579816,283
Torfaen24,1051,10925,214
Monmouthshire12,34342412,767
Newport31,3372,49133,828

Metadata

Title

Social housing rent arrears

Last update

15 July 2025 15 July 2025

Next update

March 2026

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Social housing rent arrears data collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.housing@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The information presented here shows the level of social housing rent arrears, as at 31 March. This information is collected in order to monitor trends over time in the overall level of social housing rent arrears.

Arrears are shown for tenancies in self-contained and non self-contained units. Arrears data is not collected for intermediate tenures and tenures not at social rents. Rent arrears data excludes arrears on garages and arrears for court costs or rechargeable repairs.

Current tenants arrears is the gross indebtedness of the then current tenants in respect of rent and excluding other landlord charges, included in the gross debit at the end of the financial year, not deducting payment received in advance but deducting the following amounts:
1)Amounts received but not applied to tenants’ accounts, for example in respect of housing benefit or rebate.
2)Amounts receivable other than from tenants, for example from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
3)Other adjustments, for example amounts debited to tenants’ accounts but not yet contractually payable by tenants.


Data collection and calculation

The information presented here is collected via annual returns from Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlords as at 31 March each year.

In 2018-19 one RSL (Baneswell Housing Association) was unable to submit data. Therefore information provided by Baneswell HA for 2017-18 has been used for 2018-19 to provide a more accurate local authority total and Wales level total.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown for each financial year from 1996-97.

Note that, due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, data on social housing rent arrears in Wales for 2019-20 were not collected.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Rounding applied

None

Revisions information

2015-16 data for ‘Tai Calon Community Housing’ has been revised since previously published in StatsWales. Revisions are marked in the data with an (r).

Keywords

Housing, Arrears, Rents

Statistical quality

This data has been revised on 11 July 2018 following receipt of revised figures for social housing tenancies in arrears at 31 March 2017 and earlier years from a number of social landlords.

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.