# Overcrowded London

> Households with a bedroom occupancy rating of minus one or lower.

- Category: Housing
- Cadence: census
- Status: Published on a census cadence.
- Dataset key: `census-neighbourhood-overcrowding`
- Source: [ONS](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2021/bulk)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/overcrowded-london](https://londongraph.com/g/overcrowded-london)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/overcrowded-london](https://londongraph.com/data/overcrowded-london)

## Methodology

Official disclosure-controlled Census 2021 TS052 table. Overcrowding is the share of households whose bedroom occupancy rating is -1 or -2 or less, using the published household denominator. It is a space standard, not a direct measure of housing quality.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/overcrowded-london): Households with a bedroom occupancy rating of minus one or lower.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/overcrowded-london?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.