Its English Housing Survey report for 2009 to 2010 (EHS) showed that this is the lowest level of owner-occupiers recorded by the CLG since it began collating figures in their current format in 1999.
In 1999, owner-occupiers accounted for 69.9% of households in England.
The CLG revealed that only 4% of owner-occupiers in 2009-10 were recent first-time buyers who had bought within the previous three years, with 61% of them aged between 25 and 34.
The remaining households in London were made up of social (17%) and private renters (16%).
More than two-thirds of new households formed in 2008-09 and 2009-10 were living in private rented accommodation.
The average weekly rent in 2009-10 was £156 for private renters, compared to £75 for social renters.
In addition, the CLG report showed that 33% of private renters had lived in their home for less than a year, compared to 2% of owner-occupiers and 8% of social renters.
An estimated 630,000 households (2.9%) were overcrowded, with more than a third of these households living in London, while 7.9m households (37%) were under-occupying their accommodation.
The EHS began in April 2008, bringing together two former CLG housing surveys – the English House Condition Survey and the Survey of English Housing.
