Housing statistics
Statistics that include affordable housing, new housing supply, rents in the private sector, local authority housing, and social housing.
Quarterly housing update
A summary of activity in new build housing and affordable housing in Scotland.
The most recent Housing Statistics Quarterly Update was published on 4 October 2022.
The Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update published in October 2022 includes an update on Affordable Housing Supply approvals, starts and completions up to June 2022. In addition it includes an update on all-sector new house building starts and completions to end March 2022 with more recent figures on social sector new builds to end June 2022. The publication also presents annual rates of new housebuilding and affordable housing supply per head of population, including comparisons to other UK countries.
The previous quarterly publications were published on 14 June 2022 and 29 March 2022, with earlier publications additionally listed below.
Housing Statistics Annual Key Trends
Statistics on housing stock, new housing supply, local authority stock, and housing management.
This compendium publication provides a summary of housing statistics up to the financial year 2020-21. It brings together newly collected annual figures from local authorities on council housing stock and housing management, previously published figures on new housebuilding and affordable housing supply, and figures from other sources including the Scottish Housing Regulator.
This release incorporates figures covering the latest two years of annual figures since the previous 2019 key trends publication, with the two publications since then having been delayed due to the impacts of COVID-19 on data provision and staff resourcing.
Private Sector Rent statistics
Information on Private Sector Rents across 18 Broad Rental Market areas in Scotland.
These statistics are largely based on market-level advertised new let rents and do not represent changes in rents for existing tenants.
Social Tenants in Scotland
Overview of social tenants and social rented housing in Scotland including stock, household characteristics, housing Social tenants in Scotland flows, rents and income levels.
Scottish Household Survey - Local Authority Summary Report
A short analysis of key points of interest from the Scottish Household Survey 2018 local authority level tables on housing.
Housing statistics: datasets
A range of time series and summary tables available to download in Excel format.
- Housing statistics: Stock by tenure
- Housing statistics quarterly update: new housebuilding and affordable housing supply
- Housing statistics: Conversions and demolitions
- Housing statistics: Sales of social sector housing
- Housing statistics: Local authority housing stock
- Housing statistics: Housing for older people and people with disabilities
- Housing statistics: Management of local authority housing
- Housing statistics: Houses in multiple occupation
- Housing statistics: Scheme of Assistance
- Housing statistics: Empty properties and second homes
Housing statistics: Data quality, sources and suitability
Housing statistics across the UK
The Government Statistical Service have developed a tool to browse all housing and planning statistics produced by UK public bodies.
Housing and regeneration outcomes framework: indicator updates
The latest update to the Housing and Regeneration Outcome Indicators was published on Tuesday 16 June 2020.
Private rented sector statistics user event June 2019
The Private rented sector statistics user event brought together users of PRS statisics, and took place in Edinburgh on 25 June 2019.
Materials used on the day, including the agenda, speaker photos and biographies, summary notes and presentation slides for each session can be found by clicking on the link below.
Private rented sector statistics: user event 25 June 2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
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