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Scotland's Census 2001 - Statistics on Travel to Work or Study

Housing tenure of commuters

Table 12A gives details of the housing tenure of workers/students living in each council area.

72 per cent of people living in households who travelled to a place of work or study lived in owner occupied households.  This ranged from 62 per cent for people living in Glasgow City to 91 per cent for those living in East Renfrewshire.  The percentage for all four main city council areas was below the Scottish average.

West Dunbartonshire had the highest proportion of residents living in social rented accommodation (29 per cent) with the lowest (7 per cent) for those living in East Renfrewshire.  Private renters were most common among those living in City of Edinburgh.

Table 12B shows the same information as Table 12A, except that people are classified by the council area in which they worked or studied.

The proportion of people working or studying in all four main city council areas who were owner occupiers was higher than the proportion for people living there.  This was particularly the case for Glasgow City, where 72 per cent of people who worked/studied there lived in owner occupied households, compared with just 62 per cent for those who lived there.

This is reflected in the fact that the vast majority of the gains which the four main city council areas made in “daytime population” (94 per cent in Glasgow City’s case) was accounted for by owner occupiers (Table 12C).  This illustrates that people who travel into the four main city council areas are more likely to be owner occupiers than commuters generally.