Who owns the empty homes?
Region	Total Empty Homes	Percentage of homes empty	Local council	Housing association	Other public body	Privately owned	Private homes empty more than 6 months
North East	43,968	3.76%	3,027	4,113	234	36,594	18,379
North West	129,073	4.15%	4,916	10,185	243	113,729	66,691
Yorkshire & the Humber	92,409	4.06%	5,922	4,701	441	81,345	41,299
East Midlands	62,584	3.25%	3,316	2,359	576	56,333	29,095
West Midlands	72,329	3.09%	4,124	4,613	233	63,359	34,511
East of England	64,054	2.59%	2,108	3,013	614	58,319	27,976
London	82,327	2.51%	9,503	6,355	920	65,549	28,377
South East	91,074	2.52%	2,632	4,468	932	83,042	34,663
South West	59,237	2.54%	1,396	2,232	609	55,000	22,294
ENGLAND	697,055	3.10%	36,944	42,039	4,802	613,270	303,285

*    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