One in twelve households with a mortgage headed by persons not in employment
There were 583,148 households which were owned through an existing mortgage or loan according to the most recent census, down marginally from 593,513 in 2006.
Figure 10 looks at the breakdown of these households according to the principal economic status of the head of household or householder (see Appendix 2 for a definition) between 2006 and 2011.
Households with a loan or mortgage which were headed by a person who was unemployed or looking for their first job numbered 14,757 in 2006. By 2011 this figure had increased significantly to 50,792, representing 8.7 per cent of all mortgaged households.
Of the 50,792 mortgaged homes where the head of household had no employment in 2011, 25,921 (51%) did not have anyone within the household who was at work.