Where do students live?
It’s a deceptively simple question – and one that a big lump of ONS data released today unpacks for us neatly.
To know where students live, we need to be able to answer a couple of supplementary questions – and the primary issue here is “what is a higher education student”? For this reason, whenever I’ve looked at where students lived (for example, recently on fuel poverty, or on the old Covid-19 dashboards) I’ve used the fact that HESA know about them as a proxy.
