The last post looked at the census 2021 figures and ONS estimates for dwellings on dwellings, tenure and what dwellings were used for. This post looks at the figures for 2011, although as the earliest ONS estimates are for 2012, these are used for comparative purposes.
What do the figures show?
As expected, there were 19,900 'extra' owned properties, of which the analysis suggests, 8,800 were not used for permanent accommodation, possibly holiday lets. If we add the 8,800 to the 14,100 second homes from CTB data, we get 23,200 dwellings and then subtracting this from the 29,000 unoccupied dwellings in the census we get a difference of 6,100 presumably empty properties.
Category | 2011 | 2011 est | Difference |
Owned | 158,500 | 178,400 | 19,900 |
Shared ownership (part owned and part rented) | 1,800 | 0 | 0 |
Social rented | 27,700 | 0 | 0 |
All social | 29,400 | 29,700 | 300 |
Private rented | 38,600 | 0 | 12,600 |
Living rent free | 3,800 | 0 | 0 |
All in rented accommodation | 42,500 | 51,200 | 8,800 |
All | 230,400 | 0 | 0 |
Unoccupied | 29,000 | 0 | 28,700 |
All dwellings | 259,300 | 261,300 | 1,900 |
[NB. The 2011 figures are based on the ONS annual estimates of tenure, adjusted to take account of the 2011 census.
Conclusion
Comparing different data sets is always problematical. The estimates from ONS are just that, estimates so there is room such that the ‘difference’ figures are an approximation.
Sources
ONS. Dwelling Stock table 100: Dwelling stock by local authority and region, England, 31 March 2009 to 31 March 2023
ONS, Sub-national estimates of dwellings by tenure, England, 2012 to 2021.
ONS/NOMIS, census 2011.
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