Leicester City Council's Revenues and Customer Support team collated this dataset in July 2022. It sets out Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates and compares them to contractual rents to identify weekly shortfalls in Housing Benefit provision. The data is aggregated at the Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) geography level.
Use Cases
- Identify areas with the largest housing benefit shortfalls based on the LHA rate versus rent comparison.
- Analyze the spatial distribution of housing affordability pressure at the MSOA level.
- Model the potential impact of changes to LHA rates on household budgets.
- Benchmark local housing support levels against actual market rents.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from a specific local government authority, Leicester City Council.
- Dataset has a clear temporal snapshot from July 2022.
- Focuses on a standardized UK welfare metric, the Local Housing Allowance (LHA).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to Leicester City Council's jurisdiction.
Provenance
- Source
- Leicester City Council’s Revenues and Customer Support team.
- Collection Method
- Collated from administrative data.
- Time Range
- July 2022 snapshot.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 11:36:51.847660; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Likely covers Leicester City Council area at MSOA level.