Question reference: S6W-14189
- Date lodged: 20 January 2023
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Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 30 January 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many households do not have central heating, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Data from the Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) provides estimates of the number and percentage of households with no central heating at a local authority level by averaging three years of data. The most recently available local authority data is for the 2017-19 period and is presented in Table 1.
Table 1: Number and percentage of households with no central heating by local authority, 2017-2019.
Local Authority | No Central Heating | No Central Heating |
Aberdeen City | 1,000 | 1% |
Aberdeenshire | 2,000 | 2% |
Angus | 1,000 | 2% |
Argyll and Bute | 2,000 | 4% |
Clackmannanshire | [c] | [c] |
Dumfries and Galloway | 2,000 | 3% |
Dundee City | 3,000 | 5% |
East Ayrshire | [z] | [z] |
East Dunbartonshire | [c] | [c] |
East Lothian | 1,000 | 2% |
East Renfrewshire | [c] | [c] |
City of Edinburgh | 9,000 | 3% |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 1,000 | 6% |
Falkirk | 2,000 | 2% |
Fife | 1,000 | 1% |
Glasgow City | 7,000 | 2% |
Highland | 4,000 | 4% |
Inverclyde | [c] | [c] |
Midlothian | 1% | |
Moray | 1,000 | 2% |
North Ayrshire | 1,000 | 2% |
North Lanarkshire | [c] | [c] |
Orkney Islands | 2% | |
Perth and Kinross | 1,000 | 1% |
Renfrewshire | 2,000 | 2% |
Scottish Borders | 2,000 | 4% |
Shetland Islands | 1% | |
South Ayrshire | [c] | [c] |
South Lanarkshire | 2,000 | 2% |
Stirling | 1,000 | 2% |
West Dunbartonshire | [c] | [c] |
West Lothian | [c] | [c] |
Scotland | 49,000 | 2% |
Notes
1. Figures are based on a three-year average from the Scottish House Condition Survey 2017- 2019.
2. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 1,000 and percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number.
3. The following symbols are used in this analysis: [c] indicates base sample too small to report (below 30 cases) or estimate representing 2 or fewer sampled households and [z] indicates no sample cases in this category.
It should be noted that at a Scotland level over the period 2017 to 2019, less than 2% or 49,000 of households were estimated to not have central heating in their homes. Given this low prevalence, robust estimates from the SHCS are not available for some Local Authority areas.
Data on homes with full central heating is published in the Scottish House Condition Survey: Local Authority Analysis 2017-2019 Data Tables . These tables show that 96% of homes in Scotland had full central heating. A further 2% had no central heating (as shown in Table 1) and 2% had partial central heating. Generally a home is considered to have partial central heating if only rooms representing up to 50% of the floor area of the dwelling are heated from the main heating system.
The latest available local authority data is for the 2017-2019 period, as due to Covid-19, the fieldwork for the 2020 SHCS was suspended in March 2020 and did not resume. The methodology used in the 2021 SHCS was also impacted by Covid-19, with more details to be published in May 2023.