Who owns the empty homes?

Total empty Percentage of Housing Other public Private

County Local Authority/Borough homes homes empty Local Council2 Association2 body2 Landlord2
Berkshire Bracknell Forest 907 2.01% 177 37 9 684
Reading 2,218 3.46% 104 162 0 1,952
Slough 848 1.76% 74 11 0 763
West Berkshire 1,372 2.18% 0 82 52 1,238
Windsor and Maidenhead 1,982 3.38% 0 242 12 1,728
Wokingham 547 0.90% 51 21 0 475
Berkshire Total 7,874 2.32% 406 555 73 6,840
Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Vale 1,692 2.47% 0 93 99 1,500
Chiltern 986 2.61% 0 51 4 931
Milton Keynes 2,638 2.75% 269 133 6 2,230
South Bucks 512 1.90% 0 46 6 460
Wycombe 1,167 1.73% 220 17 0 930
Buckinghamshire Total 6,995 2.36% 489 340 115 6,051
East Sussex Brighton and Hove 2,434 1.98% 154 77 2 2,201
Eastbourne 1,118 2.41% 58 63 0 997
Hastings 2,362 5.70% 0 68 0 2,294
Lewes 1,071 2.53% 21 7 0 1,043
Rother 1,082 2.53% 0 21 0 1,061
Wealden 853 1.35% 71 41 0 741
East Sussex Total 8,920 2.49% 304 277 2 8,337
Hampshire Basingstoke and Deane 1,578 2.38% 0 101 0 1,477
East Hampshire 859 1.82% 0 15 77 767
Eastleigh 1,357 2.69% 0 98 2 1,257
Fareham 728 1.58% 32 28 2 666
Gosport 1,558 4.37% 272 56 168 1,062
 Hart 599 1.67% 0 16 0 583
Havant 844 1.67% 22 22 0 800
New Forest 1,304 1.67% 24 18 30 1,232
Portsmouth 2,836 3.34% 181 32 75 2,548
Rushmoor 827 2.27% 0 51 402 374
Southampton 2,612 2.63% 190 221 0 2,201
Test Valley 954 2.00% 0 38 75 841
Winchester 230 0.49% 130 100 0 0
Hampshire Total 16,286 2.24% 851 796 831 13,808
Isle of Wight Isle of Wight 1,590 2.42% 0 56 0 1,534
Isle of Wight Total 1,590 2.42% 0 56 0 1,534
Kent Ashford 1,922 4.01% 59 63 0 1,800
Canterbury 1,395 2.25% 43 10 0 1,342
Dartford 982 2.54% 17 10 0 955
Dover 1,835 3.74% 144 38 51 1,602
Gravesham 542 1.35% 110 52 # 380
Maidstone 1,564 2.52% 0 141 0 1,423
Medway 3,127 2.92% 35 257 5 2,830
Sevenoaks 742 1.57% 0 46 5 691
Shepway 1,557 3.31% 42 15 0 1,500
Swale 1,365 2.38% 0 232 0 1,133
Thanet 1,312 2.27% 22 17 # 1,273
Tonbridge and Malling 933 1.98% 0 56 6 871
Tunbridge Wells 1,127 2.43% 0 83 0 1,044
Kent Total 18,403 2.59% 472 1,020 67 16,844
Oxfordshire Cherwell 1,263 2.20% 0 45 0 1,218
Oxford 1,762 3.12% 132 114 # 1,516
South Oxfordshire 1,135 2.05% 0 100 20 1,015
Vale of White Horse 328 0.67% 0 22 # 306
West Oxfordshire 358 0.82% 0 5 10 343
Oxfordshire Total 4,846 1.85% 132 286 30 4,398
Surrey Elmbridge 1,660 3.08% 3 157 11 1,489
Epsom and Ewell 775 2.63% 0 30 30 715
Guildford 996 1.81% 75 19 25 877
Mole Valley 809 2.24% 55 9 7 738
Reigate and Banstead 1,454 2.65% 0 94 1 1,359
Runnymede 803 2.42% 36 7 0 760
Spelthorne 326 0.81% 0 60 0 266
Surrey Heath 992 2.88% 0 9 14 969
Tandridge 951 2.82% 24 19 0 908
Waverley 1,756 3.49% 99 25 19 1,613
Woking 1,327 3.36% 47 63 17 1,200
Surrey Total 11,849 2.57% 339 492 124 10,894
West Sussex Adur 576 2.12% 14 18 0 544
Arun 623 0.91% 12 10 10 591
Chichester 1,588 3.04% 0 58 0 1,530
Crawley 700 1.74% 50 49 7 594
Horsham 1,368 2.49% 6 214 0 1,148
Mid Sussex 1,091 1.91% 0 116 26 949
Worthing 1,036 2.21% 0 41 0 995
West Sussex Total 6,982 2.01% 82 506 43 6,351
SOUTH EAST TOTAL 83,745 2.35% 3,075 4,328 1,285 75,057
 Number of
Private homes properties
empty more brought back
than 6 months into use (2006/7)
279 72
924 0
323 3
818 0
759 46
382 6
3,485 127
385 19
540 102
639 48
444 14
107 10
2,115 193
1,258 151
393 41
801 78
469 21
511 ..
514 ..
3,946 291
689 15
562 11
264 89
120 9
281 259
 317 18
241 5
313 99
953 20
232 69
922 105
205 96
0 12
5,099 807
243 56
243 56
555 59
712 6
412 11
775 44
162 ..
664 32
1,480 82
111 ..
400 34
465 141
944 85
269 21
439 10
7,388 525
453 1
138 6
421 79
306 67
215 3
 1,533 156
535 54
298 66
602 33
261 #
590 45
430 12
266 90
474 2
274 2
925 0
614 46
5,269 350
181 71
491 10
196 38
258 #
480 67
653 55
518 80
2,777 321
31,855 2,826