Who owns the empty homes?
County	Local Authority/Borough		Total empty homes	Percentage of homes empty	Local Council2	Housing Association2	Other public body2	Private Landlord2	Private homes empty more than 6 months	Low Demand Dwellings	Number of properties brought back into use (2004/5)
Cheshire	Chester		2836	5.16%	7	318	102	2409	1,373	189	21
	Congleton		1437	3.64%	0	32	0	1405	791	0	4
	Crewe and Nantwich	*	2122	4.20%	0	174	0	1948	994	148	47
	Ellesmere Port and Neston		861	2.45%	62	20	0	779	362	153	16
	Halton		1712	3.25%	1	214	0	1497	843	227	5
	Macclesfield		1939	2.77%	108	28	0	1803	936	376	16
	Vale Royal	*	1245	2.32%	0	69	150	1026	233	1	23
	Warrington		2122	2.53%	2	110	0	2010	967	448	4
Cheshire Total		*	14,274	3.24%	180	965	252	12,877	6,499	1,542	136
Cumbria	Allerdale		1293	2.92%	0	304	0	989	758	11,460	8
	Barrow-in-Furness		#	#	33	0	#	1000	680	600	0
	Carlisle		2221	4.62%	0	346	0	1875	1,875	618	16
	Copeland		1080	3.35%	0	223	0	857	697	5,824	0
	Eden		343	1.40%	0	7	0	336	292	5	9
	South Lakeland		1826	3.59%	29	7	3	1787	10	0	28
Cumbria Total		*	6,763	3.39%	62	887	3	6,844	4,312	18,507	61
Greater Manchester	Bolton		5616	4.80%	508	96	0	5012	3,111	2,364	68
	Bury		1891	2.38%	186	59	50	1596	1,238	17	11
	Manchester		12577	6.19%	751	951	214	10661	7,504	15,840	322
	Oldham	*	3149	3.33%	601	126	3	2419	2,038	23,648	31
	Rochdale		3564	3.99%	186	671	0	2707	1,295	4,512	16
	Salford		4921	4.81%	956	287	0	3678	3,111	35,370	241
	Stockport		3822	3.08%	245	39	0	3538	2,062	55	52
	Tameside	*	4481	4.62%	350	832	0	3299	1,917	634	36
	Trafford		3057	3.23%	0	367	0	2690	962	330	32
	Wigan		3847	2.86%	404	123	4	3316	1,984	3000	53
Greater Manchester Total		*	46,925	4.50%	4,187	3,551	271	38,916	25,222	85,770	862
Lancashire	Blackburn with Darwen		3471	5.88%	2	390	0	3079	1,251	20,171	171
	Blackpool		3854	5.65%	220	8	0	3626	1,439	1,716	211
	Burnley		2961	7.35%	0	131	0	2830	1,301	18,002	93
	Chorley		1469	3.30%	35	36	0	1398	618	262	7
	Fylde	*	1573	4.45%	0	18	0	1555	805	0	5
	Hyndburn		2000	5.53%	0	188	0	1812	1,321	11,880	8
	Lancaster	*	2461	4.11%	51	37	0	2373	1,186	2,055	46
	Pendle		2420	6.18%	62	11	0	2347	2,163	14,356	5
	Preston		2556	4.36%	0	254	389	1913	857	15,959	27
	Ribble Valley		812	3.33%	8	0	0	804	351	0	11
	Rossendale		1610	5.37%	0	99	0	1511	744	2,807	27
	South Ribble		430	0.93%	0	4	0	426	220	127	19
	West Lancashire		570	1.21%	106	6	0	458	253	67	27
	Wyre		1513	3.12%	0	24	0	1489	499	0	26
Lancashire Total		*	27,700	4.35%	484	1,206	389	25,621	13,008	87,402	683
Merseyside	Knowsley		1187	1.88%	0	482	0	705	440	1,426	416
	Liverpool		13880	6.63%	1212	2366	0	10302	7,432	33,061	728
	Sefton		6777	5.49%	170	323	0	6284	2,994	2,426	4
	St Helens	*	2830	3.65%	0	288	0	2542	1,017	167	89
	Wirral		6080	4.24%	0	401	5	5674	2,682	23,871	102
Merseyside Total		*	30,754	4.99%	1,382	3,860	5	25,507	14,565	60,951	1,339
NORTH WEST TOTAL			126,416	4.13%	6,295	10,469	920	109,765	63,606	254,172	3,081