Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end March 2025
This statistical publication presents latest quarterly figures to end March 2025 on new housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply, along with annual rates of new housebuilding and affordable housing supply per head of population, with comparisons to other UK countries.
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Housing supply (including affordable) across the UK
All-sector housing supply across the UK countries
Chart 10 presents trends in the rates of all-sector new housebuilding completions per 10,000 population across each of the UK countries on a financial year basis (years to end March).
Please note that the most comprehensive measure for England’s housing supply is the financial year ‘net additional dwellings' series, rather than the indicative indicators of activity published in the quarterly new build statistics.
Chart 10: UK New housebuilding completions as a rate per 10,000 population, 2007-08 to 2023-24 (years to end March)
Affordable housing delivery across UK countries
Whilst definitions and the delivery of affordable housing differs across the UK, comparisons can be made considering these differences by financial year per 10,000 population.
Our previous publications presented such comparisons up 2023-24, which are still the latest available. Where, in 2023-24, the 9,514 affordable homes delivered in Scotland equates to a rate of 17.3 homes delivered per 10,000 population, compared to 11.5 in Northern Ireland, 10.8 in England and 9.9 in Wales. For a more detailed write up please refer to the December 2024 publication.