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The proportion of men that are in work in Arfon (75.3 per cent) is 3.6 percentage points below the GB average (78.9 per cent) and is also below the Welsh average (76.1 per cent).23 By contrast women in Arfon are more likely to be in work (73 per cent) than the GB average (72.3 per cent) and the Welsh average (70.5 per cent).24 The constituency also performs broadly in line with the rest of Wales w. [...] Of those who live in the owner-occupied sector 8,935 own their home outright (37 per cent of all households in Arfon) making it the largest housing tenure in the constituency.71 The total number of households who own their property with a mortgage stands at 6,295 (26 per cent of all households).72 Given that the owner occupier sector in Arfon is smaller than the Welsh average, it is not a surprise. [...] Across the constituency 4,794 households live in the social rented sector, 20 per cent of all households.74 This is three percentage points higher than the Wales average of 17 per cent.75 There are 4,307 households living in the private rental sector in Arfon (18 per cent).76 This is another important point of difference between housing in Arfon and in the rest of Wales. [...] Across Wales as a whole, the number of households living in the private rental sector (228,642) overtook the number of households living in the social rented sector (222,093) at the 2021 census.77 The social rental sector remains larger than the private rental sector in Arfon. [...] • • • • 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 • • • • • • 114 115 • • • 116 • • 117 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • to this is the data published by the End Child Poverty Network.118 To get a deeper understanding of poverty in the constituency there is a need to look at other data sources.