# What a council home costs

> Average council rent, borough by borough, for the boroughs that still have any.

- Category: Housing
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `council-rents`
- Source: [London Datastore](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/local-authority-average-rents)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/council-rent-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/g/council-rent-by-borough)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/council-rent-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/data/council-rent-by-borough)

## Methodology

Average local authority rent per week by borough, from the London Datastore. This is council rent, not the private market — the graph was originally planned around private rents, but ONS publishes those as a spreadsheet without borough detail, and substituting one for the other would have been the wrong number under the right title. Boroughs marked LSVT transferred their housing stock and no longer set a council rent; they are absent rather than shown as zero.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/council-rent-by-borough): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/council-rent-by-borough?view=overview): Average council rent, borough by borough, for the boroughs that still have any.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/council-rent-by-borough?view=distribution): Place every mapped area in the selected measure's distribution while preserving missing values.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.