Private Rental Market Statistics
Published by Valuation Office Agency in 2011
Data Type:Administrative
The release presents the mean, median, lower quartile and upper quartile total monthly rent paid, for a number of bedroom/room categories.
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Dataset Quality
Release notes with a comment on data quality are provided with the annual release. The data include all relevant data available and have not been adjusted to produce statistics which are representative of the private rental property market mix in England. However, the underlying data set to these statistics is not drawn from a statistical sample and does not consist of tracked properties. This means that the statistics presented in this release should be considered as indicative only and do not represent accurate measures of the population
This dataset is based on data collected by the Valuation Office Agency to support Local Housing Allowance. Importantly, however, it is emphasised in publications that the data used to generate these statistics are based on a sample of rental information which is collected by Rent Officers from landlords and letting agents. Because the composition of this sample changes over time, it is not possible to compare median rents provided in this publication with statistics in previous publications to infer trends in the rental market over time
Dataset Access and Use
Freely available datasets for 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011. The most recent record is available via the VOA website while additional years are accessed via the National Archive
The release notes for these statistics indicate that the VOA have a positive attitude to research use of their data.
