Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 91615

Multiple Occupation

Tabled: 17 November 2025
Answered: 25 November 2025

Question

Jim McMahon

Labour (Co-op)Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many Houses of Multiple Occupation there were in England in each year since 2010.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook

Estimates of the number of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in England in each year since 2000-01 can be found in my Department’s Local Authority Housing Statistics open data, which can be found on gov.uk here.

The latest figures for 2023-24 show an estimated 472,823 HMOs in England.