Key Data (Housing, State of the South West 2011)
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> There were 2.39 million dwellings in the South West in 2010 (DCLG 2010, Table 109)
> There were 13,310 dwellings completed in 2009/10 (DCLG 2010, Table 253).
> 41,720 affordable dwellings were provided between 2001/2 and 2009/10 (DCLG 2010, Table 1000).
> 76.9% of new dwellings were built on previously developed land in 2008/09 (South West Councils AMR 2009).
> Flats comprised 32% of all dwelling completions in 2009/10 compared to 45% in 2008/09 (DCLG 2010, Table 254).
> 2,980 households were accepted as homeless by South West local authorities in 2009/10 (DCLG 2010, Table 772).
> There were 54,249 empty dwellings recorded in the South West in 2008, representing 3.2% of the total housing
stock.
> Second homes represented 2% of the South West housing stock in 2006, double the figure for England.
> In 2010 the ratio of lower quartile house price to lower quartile earnings in the South West was 8.17 to 1 compared to a national average of 6.69 to 1.
