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What proportion of your income is spent on your mortgage/rent?

27 January 2020

Take what you pay on your mortgage or rent (include any service charges or ground rent but NOT council tax, insurance or other bills) and work out roughly what percentage of your monthly take-home pay/income (including benefits) it is. If you have joint finances which are intertwined then give your costs as a proportion of household income. Please answer in the correct category.

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Take what you pay on your mortgage or rent (include any service charges or ground rent but NOT council tax, insurance or other bills) and work out roughly what percentage of your monthly take-home pay/income (including benefits) it is.

If you have joint finances which are intertwined then give your costs as a proportion of household income.

Please answer in the correct category.

Results

I’ve got a residential mortgage/I own my own home (incl shared ownership) (7258 votes)
None 1991 votes (27%)
1-10% 419 votes (6%)
11-20% 1497 votes (21%)
21-30% 2005 votes (28%)
31-40% 844 votes (12%)
41-50% 279 votes (4%)
51-60% 121 votes (2%)
61-70% 37 votes (1%)
71-80% 31 votes (0%)
81-90% 11 votes (0%)
91-100% 3 votes (0%)
100+% (ie, cost is bigger than income) 20 votes (0%)
I live in my parents’/family home (197 votes)
None 77 votes (39%)
1-10% 46 votes (23%)
11-20% 30 votes (15%)
21-30% 23 votes (12%)
31-40% 12 votes (6%)
41-50% 6 votes (3%)
51-60% 2 votes (1%)
61-70% 0 votes (0%)
71-80% 1 votes (1%)
81-90% 0 votes (0%)
91-100% 0 votes (0%)
100+% (ie, cost is bigger than income) 0 votes (0%)
I live in private rented accommodation (1169 votes)
None 10 votes (1%)
1-10% 14 votes (1%)
11%-20% 147 votes (13%)
21-30% 363 votes (31%)
31-40% 302 votes (26%)
41-50% 157 votes (13%)
51-60% 106 votes (9%)
61-70% 34 votes (3%)
71-80% 19 votes (2%)
81-90% 9 votes (1%)
91-100% 3 votes (0%)
100+% (ie, cost is bigger than income) 5 votes (0%)
I live in a council property/social housing (876 votes)
None 628 votes (72%)
1-10% 7 votes (1%)
11-20% 41 votes (5%)
21-30% 63 votes (7%)
31-40% 60 votes (7%)
41-50% 46 votes (5%)
51-60% 17 votes (2%)
61-70% 7 votes (1%)
71-80% 1 votes (0%)
81-90% 1 votes (0%)
91-100% 0 votes (0%)
100+% (ie, cost is bigger than income) 5 votes (1%)

                   9,500 votes received.

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