Glasgow City Region

Number of households assessed as homeless

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The overall number of households assessed as homeless in Glasgow more than halved between 2002-03 and 2021-22, although there has been an upward trend since 2017-18, and in 2020-21 there were 5,701 households assessed as homeless in Glasgow. By comparison, figures in the other local authorities in GCR were much smaller than in Glasgow throughout the time period – totalling in 2021-22 just less than the total Glasgow figure for that year.

Over the period 2002-03 to 2021-22, homeless households rose in Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire, reduced in Inverclyde and North Lanarkshire and remained relatively unchanged in South Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire. Looking at this same time period, Scottish homeless household figures reduced by around 37%.

The 5,701 households in Glasgow assessed as being homeless in 2021-22 were made up of 6,460 adults and 2,591 children (28.6% children). The total number of homelessness applications made in Glasgow that year was 6,995.

Glasgow had 12% of Scotland’s population in 2021-22, but 20% of Scotland’s homeless households. Most of the other local authorities in Glasgow City Region had lower proportions of households assessed as homeless than their share of the Scottish population. West Dunbartonshire was the exception to this; although it has only 1.6% of the overall Scottish population, it had 3.5% of homeless households in 2021-22.

Notes

This page was updated in September 2022, using figures released in August 2022. The Scottish Government updates homelessness statistics annually.