Who owns the empty homes?
Local Authority	Total Empty Homes	Percentage of homes empty	Local council	Housing association	Other public body	Privately Owned	Private homes empty more than 6 months
Alnwick	705	4.40%	17	41	0	647	245
Berwick-upon-Tweed	585	4.13%	17	10	0	558	585
Blyth Valley	791	2.16%	41	157	0	593	369
Castle Morpeth	939	4.29%	0	54	14	871	285
Chester-le-Street	782	3.24%	0	49	0	733	467
Darlington UA	1,575	3.30%	86	12	0	1,477	405
Derwentside	1,484	3.57%	0	160	0	1,324	518
Durham	1,999	5.13%	75	23	0	1,901	896
Easington	2,096	4.88%	145	33	0	1,918	1,265
Gateshead	3,720	4.05%	733	183	127	2,677	1,628
Hartlepool UA	1,795	4.35%	0	236	83	1,476	617
Middlesbrough UA	2,666	4.43%	0	752	0	1,914	929
Newcastle upon Tyne	4,450	3.64%	899	312	0	3,239	2,014
North Tyneside	2,523	2.72%	378	61	0	2,084	584
Redcar and Cleveland UA	1,833	2.95%	0	149	0	1,684	851
Sedgefield	1,782	4.38%	142	24	0	1,616	903
South Tyneside	2,103	3.05%	254	55	6	1,788	844
Stockton-on-Tees UA	2,706	3.34%	192	99	0	2,415	1,116
Sunderland	5,343	4.30%	0	1,483	0	3,860	2,376
Teesdale	229	1.95%	0	32	0	197	16
Tynedale	565	2.09%	2	4	1	558	397
Wansbeck	1,257	4.35%	0	144	0	1,113	471
Wear Valley	2,040	6.73%	46	40	3	1,951	598
North East	43,968	3.76%	3,027	4,113	234	36,594	18,379

*    Figures in italics are based on incomplete figures provided by local authorities and are, therefore, lower than actual totals
Regional totals as supplied by DCLG may differ from individual boroughs due to additional cross-referencing with other bodies such as Government  departments and the Housing Corporation
Regional totals have been grossed for missing values
Notes:
1  Each year the Department for Communities and Local Government collects data on the number of empty homes from each local authority in England and from other Government departments and bodies - HSSA Statistics.
2   'Local council' is the local authority, e.g. borough council, district council, metropolitan borough council; 'housing associations' are organisations which provide social housing; 'other public body' refers to Government departments and organisations such as the NHS, Highways Agency, Ministry of Defence, etc; 'private landlords' can be individuals or private developers
LA data are reported figures. # indicates figure not supplied.Regions' totals include estimated values for missing data.Hence summing LA figures would not yield region's figure. England total is sum of all regions' figures with estimates. "-" indicates not applicable or non-derivable.".." indicates not available