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
Herefordshire Herefordshire 1,843 2.33% 6 168 34 1,635
Herefordshire Total 1,843 2.33% 6 168 34 1,635
Shropshire Bridgnorth 698 3.11% 31 0 0 667
North Shropshire 366 1.42% 25 5 # 336
Oswestry 283 1.64% 13 6 0 264
Shrewsbury and Atcham 787 1.82% 0 74 0 713
South Shropshire 704 3.53% 0 31 0 673
Telford & Wrekin 1,546 2.31% 0 372 26 1,148
Shropshire Total 4,384 2.24% 69 488 26 3,801
Staffordshire Cannock Chase 767 1.90% 41 11 0 715
East Staffordshire 1,800 3.90% 0 91 0 1,709
Lichfield 551 1.32% 0 100 3 448
Newcastle-under-Lyme 1,064 2.00% 0 103 0 961
South Staffordshire 769 1.73% 0 88 4 677
Stafford 1,317 2.40% 0 147 0 1,170
Staffordshire Moorlands 1,250 2.96% 0 19 0 1,231
Stoke-on-Trent 7,474 6.72% 191 138 0 7,145
Tamworth 725 2.29% 48 10 0 667
Staffordshire Total 15,717 3.37% 280 707 7 14,723
Warwickshire North Warwickshire 212 0.81% 15 0 0 197
Nuneaton and Bedworth 1,693 3.20% 96 12 0 1,585
Rugby 974 2.38% 86 21 # 867
Stratford-on-Avon 2,316 4.36% 0 0 0 2,316
Warwick 1,739 2.97% 19 93 0 1,627
Warwickshire Total 6,934 2.99% 216 126 0 6,592
West Midlands Birmingham 11,079 2.66% 1,152 360 39 9,528
Coventry 4,225 3.26% 14 617 5 3,589
Dudley 3,757 2.86% 438 90 39 3,190
Sandwell 4,312 3.45% 239 101 0 3,972
Solihull 2,872 3.30% 261 7 12 2,592
Walsall 4,918 4.53% 0 1,685 0 3,233
Wolverhampton 5,194 4.99% 467 88 4 4,635
West Midlands Total 36,357 3.30% 2,571 2,948 99 30,739
Worcestershire Bromsgrove 354 0.92% 0 17 0 337
Malvern Hills 931 2.85% 0 30 0 901
Redditch 753 2.18% 66 19 2 666
Worcester 1,299 3.10% 0 34 5 1,260
Wychavon 1,489 2.93% 0 36 1 1,452
Wyre Forest 2,074 4.70% 0 74 0 2,000
Worcestershire Total 6,900 2.85% 66 210 8 6,616
WEST MIDLANDS TOTAL 72,135 3.11% 3,208 4,647 174 64,106
 Number of
Private homes properties
empty more brought back
than 6 months into use (2006/7)
772 52
772 52
1 1
2 3
264 9
264 ..
454 4
466 161
1,451 178
492 7
14 53
130 0
464 122
61 3
1,170 6
852 20
3,673 173
125 1
6,981 385
197 9
924 43
557 8
800 60
885 2
3,363 122
 6,370 156
2,423 62
1,624 61
1,584 241
731 34
1,748 112
1,686 125
16,166 791
215 8
330 4
415 0
416 46
451 44
511 21
2,338 123
31,071 1,651