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Table 5: Housebuilding rates in England and Wales 1856-2019
Period | Average annual total build rate | Average annual private build rate | Average annual public build rate |
Victorian (1856 – 1913) | 1.75 | 1.75 | 0 |
Inter-War (1920 – 1939) | 2.20 | 1.58 | 0.62 |
Post-War (1947 – 1979) | 1.77 | 0.84 | 0.92 |
Modern (1980 – 2019) | 0.74 | 0.59 | 0.14 |
Pre-TCPA (1856 – 1939) | 1.86 | 1.70 | 0.16 |
Post-TCPA (1947 – 2019) | 1.21 | 0.71 | 0.50 |
Table 6: Housebuilding rates by decade in England and Wales, 1920s to 2010s
Decade | Average Total Building Rate | Average Private Building Rate | Average Public Building Rate |
1920s | 1.77 | 1.15 | 0.62 |
1930s | 2.62 | 2.01 | 0.61 |
1940s | 1.16 | 0.26 | 0.90 |
1950s | 1.81 | 0.62 | 1.20 |
1960s | 2.04 | 1.20 | 0.84 |
1970s | 1.55 | 0.86 | 0.69 |
1980s | 0.96 | 0.72 | 0.24 |
1990s | 0.73 | 0.62 | 0.12 |
2000s | 0.67 | 0.59 | 0.08 |
2010s | 0.57 | 0.45 | 0.12 |
Table 7: Housebuilding rates in the UK 1948 to 2019
Period | Average Total Rate | Mean Private Rate | Mean Public Rate |
1948-1979 | 1.86 | 0.83 | 1.03 |
1955-1979 | 1.86 | 0.95 | 0.90 |
1980-2020 | 0.79 | 0.63 | 0.16 |
1948-2019 | 1.26 | 0.72 | 0.55 |
Table 8: Housebuilding rates by decade in the UK, 1950s to 2010s
Decade | Average annual total build rate | Average annual private build rate | Average annual public build rate |
1950s | 1.9 | 0.61 | 1.29 |
1960s | 2.07 | 1.14 | 0.93 |
1970s | 1.61 | 0.82 | 0.79 |
1980s | 1 | 0.74 | 0.26 |
1990s | 0.78 | 0.64 | 0.14 |
2000s | 0.72 | 0.63 | 0.09 |
2010s | 0.65 | 0.51 | 0.13 |
1948-1979 | 1.86 | 0.83 | 1.03 |
1955-1979 | 1.85 | 0.95 | 0.90 |
1980-2015 | 0.79 | 0.63 | 0.16 |
Post 2000: Data sources
- Austria: Statistics Austria: https://www.statistik.at/en/statistics/population-and-society/housing
- Belgium: Statbel: https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/housing
- Denmark: Statistics Denmark: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/borgere/boligforhold
- Finland: Statistics Finland. Special thanks to Mika Ronkainen who generously fulfilled our requests for housing stock data.
- France: Insee – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques.
- Germany: Statistisches Bundesamt – https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Housing/node.html
- Ireland: Central Statistics Office: https://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/housingandhouseholds/- , Special thanks to Ronan Lyons also generously provided us with additional data.
- Netherlands: CBS – Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/economy/construction-and-housing
- Norway: Statistik Sentralbyra: https://www.ssb.no/en/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom
- Sweden: SCB – Statistics Sweden; https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/housing-construction-and-building/. In addition the Per Splander of the Sveriges Allmännytta – the Swedish cooperative housing association, generously provided data for non-profit housing construction which we used to calculate tenure ratios.
- Switzerland: Federal Statistical Office: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/construction-housing.html
- United Kingdom and England: Office of National Statistics