Editing Mid Sussex District (section)

==Home ownership==
Homes owned by their occupants, with or without a loan, make up more than 85% of Mid Sussex housing. Mid Sussex's residents had the lowest burden of social housing, at 0.5% of housing stock, at the time of the census, a district which is approximately 30 minutes by its [[Brighton Main Line|fast railway services]] from the area with the highest such proportion covering [[London Bridge station]], the [[London Borough of Southwark]] (having 31.2% social housing) and from a creative and self-declared, progressive authority with 9.8% social housing and 28% of its housing privately rented, [[Brighton and Hove]].

In terms of rented housing Mid Sussex at the 2011 census ranked 216th out of in terms of 327 local authorities in England. The proportion of homes which were rented as investments by non-occupants was higher than several other semi-rural districts of Sussex, with 11.7% of housing stock speculatively acquired in this way or to provide for those unable to obtain mortgage finance and 1.0% was let out to residents on either public or private shared ownership schemes, close to the national average. These figures are those of the 2011 census.<ref name=ons>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk 2011 Census Key Statistics: Tenure], [[Office for National Statistics]].</ref>