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East Ayrshire Local Authority

Figures published by National Records of Scotland show that East Ayrshire had 524 long-term empty homes in 2023. The map and table below shows how these long term empty homes are distributed across the Local Authority area.


• 0.88% of East Ayrshire’s homes were long term empty in 2023, compared to 1.70% in Scotland as a whole.

• 70.42% (369) of East Ayrshire’s long term empty homes have been empty for longer than one year. 

• East Ayrshire accounts for 1.30% of homes empty for more than 1 year in Scotland.


The EHO for East Ayrshire

Dawn Cadwell (07785446115)

[email protected]

Please click on the map above to go to the Statistics.Gov.UK page for East Ayrshire. You can find out the location of each of the Intermediate Data Zones by clicking on 2011 Intermediate Zones under Locations on that page


Intermediate Data ZonesNumber of Long-term Empty HomesIncrease or decrease 2022-2023% of Properties LTE% of EA LTE Homes% of EA Homes
1Mauchline Rural50-202.00%9.54%4.19%
2Newmilns46-32.89%8.78%2.67%
3Bonnyton and Town Centre34+11.45%6.49%3.93%
4Cumnock Rural32+11.34%6.11%4.00%
5Darvel30+31.59%5.73%3.17%
6Doon Valley South25-41.61%4.77%2.61%
7Northern and Irvine Valley Rural21-10.77%4.01%4.58%
8Piersland2001.12%3.82%2.99%
9Galston20+42.32%3.82%3.97%
10Crosshouse, Gatehead and Kilmaurs Rural20+40.84%3.82%3.98%
11Mauchline18-20.94%3.44%3.21%
12Altonhil South, Longpark and Hillhead18-10.70%3.44%4.31%
13Doon Valley North18+70.95%3.44%3.16%
14Grange, and Howard and Gargieston17+30.65%3.24%4.36%
15Auchinleck17+60.95%3.24%3.01%
16Cumnock South and Craigens16-10.69%3.05%3.87%
17Kilmarnock South Central and Caprington15+30.91%2.86%2.76%
18Cumnock North14+10.73%2.67%3.21%
19Earlston and Hurlford Rural13-20.51%2.48%4.30%
20New Cumnock13+10.93%2.48%2.33%
21Stewarton East10-10.52%1.91%3.19%
22Bellfield and Kirkstyle10+20.46%1.91%3.67%
23Southcraig and Beansburn800.34%1.53%3.92%
24Kilmaurs800.61%1.53%2.18%
25Shortlees6-30.29%1.15%3.42%
26Drongan6-10.41%1.15%2.46%
27Altonhil North and Onthank600.30%1.15%3.39%
28Dean and New Farm Loch North6+30.37%1.15%2.68%
29Stewarton West4-30.31%0.76%2.16%
30New Farm Loch South300.22%0.57%2.33%

Where the % of homes is lower than % of long term empty homes, it indicates areas with above average levels of empty homes.


Sources

Small Area Statistics on Households and Dwellings | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk)

 Housing statistics: Empty properties and second homes – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)