"Figure 1: Both types of renter spend higher proportions of their expenditure on housing costs than owner occupiers","" "Household Costs Indices, average expenditure share by tenure type, UK, 2005 to 2021","" "","" "Notes","1. Expenditure shares may not sum to 1,000 due to rounding. 2. Weights for each category of spending are averaged across the period of 2005 to 2021. 3. For more information on the data used for this analysis, you can refer to [Section 4 of the Household Costs Indices Methodology](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/methodologies/householdcostsindicesmethodology). " "Unit","Parts per 1,000" "","" "Division","Owner Occupier","Private Renter","Subsidised Renter" "Education","8","14","3" "Health","23","12","15" "Communication","26","24","28" "Furniture Household Equipment and Maintenance","58","32","45" "Clothing and Footwear","55","46","48" "Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco","38","42","64" "Miscellaneous Goods and Services","111","89","77" "Restaurants and Hotels","109","92","77" "Transport","134","106","82" "Recreation & Culture","131","86","100" "Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages","121","100","152" "Housing Water Elelctricity Gas and Other Fuels","186","358","309"