Homelessness Equalities Statistics

17 Nov 2020 03:40 PM

A National Statistics Publication for Scotland.

Scotland’s Chief Statistician yesterday released further breakdowns of homelessness data by age, gender and ethnicity.

Findings for 2019-20 show:

Background

The full statistical publication provides a much wider set of analysis and breakdowns and is available online.

The Homelessness in Scotland: Equalities Breakdown publication extends previously published annual homelessness data on applications, assessments, use of temporary accommodation and outcomes. The most recent data available covers the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.

Given the figures in this publication report data up until 31 March 2020, this only crosses over with around a week of coronavirus restrictions and changes in practices being in place. Therefore, changes in trends in homeless data as a result of coronavirus will be extremely minimal over this reporting period.

This publication includes analysis of age, gender and ethnicity characteristics only, as these are the equalities strands for which data is currently collected via homelessness applications. A review of the current homelessness collections is being undertaken, and as part of this consideration will be given to the feasibility of collecting more equalities characteristics in the future.

Official statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff – more information on the standards of official statistics in Scotland is available online