Dumfries & Galloway Local Authority
Please note, this report uses the definition of “long term empty” (LTE) used by National Records Scotland (NRS): “homes empty for 6+ months (and liable for council tax).” Figures published by NRS show that Dumfries & Galloway had 1,770* LTE homes in 2024. The table below shows how these LTE homes are distributed across the Local Authority area.
• 2.31% of Dumfries & Galloway’s homes were LTE in 2024, compared to 1.80% in Scotland as a whole.
• 77.42% (1,368) of Dumfries & Galloway’s empty homes have been empty for longer than one year**.
• Dumfries & Galloway accounts for 4.33% of homes empty for more than 1 year in Scotland.
Empty homes contact for Dumfries & Galloway:
Gillian Flack (Housing and Regeneration Development Officer)
Please click on the map above to go to the Statistics.Gov.UK page for Dumfries & Galloway. 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 Zones | # LTE Homes | Change 2023-2024 | % of Properties LTE | % of D&G LTE homes | % of D&G Homes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Machars South | 104 | -4 | 3.68% | 5.88% | 3.69% |
| 2 | Langholm and Eskdale | 85 | +9 | 4.30% | 4.80% | 2.58% |
| 3 | Glenkens | 84 | +3 | 4.16% | 4.75% | 2.64% |
| 4 | Rhins North | 76 | +1 | 3.86% | 4.29% | 2.57% |
| 5 | Thornhill | 75 | +1 | 2.43% | 4.24% | 2.74% |
| 6 | Kirkcudbright | 68 | -3 | 2.47% | 3.84% | 3.59% |
| 7 | Newton Stewart | 67 | -7 | 2.43% | 3.79% | 3.60% |
| 8 | Gatehouse | 62 | +12 | 3.31% | 3.50% | 2.44% |
| 9 | Lockerbie | 60 | +12 | 2.36% | 3.39% | 3.32% |
| 10 | Upper Nithsdale | 59 | -18 | 2.54% | 3.33% | 3.03% |
| 11 | Mid Nithsdale | 58 | +1 | 2.81% | 3.28% | 2.69% |
| 12 | Dumfries Central | 57 | -3 | 2.66% | 3.22% | 2.80% |
| 13 | Stranraer East | 55 | -5 | 3.62% | 3.11% | 1.99% |
| 14 | Annandale West | 54 | +6 | 4.05% | 3.05% | 1.74% |
| 15 | Moffat | 51 | 0 | 2.50% | 2.88% | 2.66% |
| 16 | Castle Douglas | 48 | 0 | 2.01% | 2.71% | 3.12% |
| 17 | Annan West | 48 | -4 | 2.70% | 2.71% | 2.32% |
| 18 | Annandale East | 44 | -19 | 2.36% | 2.49% | 2.43% |
| 19 | Machars North | 42 | 0 | 3.10% | 2.37% | 1.77% |
| 20 | Nunholm | 38 | -4 | 2.17% | 2.15% | 2.29% |
| 21 | Rhins South | 36 | -1 | 3.13% | 2.03% | 1.50% |
| 22 | Annan East | 36 | -1 | 3.38% | 2.03% | 3.40% |
| 23 | Dalbeattie Rural | 35 | -10 | 2.50% | 1.98% | 1.83% |
| 24 | Dalbeattie | 28 | +3 | 1.26% | 1.58% | 2.89% |
| 25 | Shawhead | 27 | +2 | 1.79% | 1.53% | 1.97% |
| 26 | Collin | 26 | +5 | 1.29% | 1.47% | 2.63% |
| 27 | Lochmaben | 26 | -2 | 1.63% | 1.47% | 2.09% |
| 28 | Lochside and Lincluden | 25 | -3 | 0.90% | 1.41% | 3.61% |
| 29 | New Abbey | 25 | 0 | 1.51% | 1.41% | 2.17% |
| 30 | Eastriggs | 25 | +1 | 1.72% | 1.41% | 1.89% |
| 31 | Gretna | 25 | -7 | 1.23% | 1.41% | 2.65% |
| 32 | Stranraer West | 24 | -13 | 1.22% | 1.36% | 2.58% |
| 33 | Kingholm | 24 | 0 | 1.50% | 1.36% | 2.09% |
| 34 | Troqueer | 15 | -17 | 0.85% | 0.85% | 2.29% |
| 35 | Locharbriggs | 15 | -2 | 0.97% | 0.85% | 2.03% |
| 36 | Calside | 13 | +1 | 1.01% | 0.73% | 1.68% |
| 37 | Stranraer South | 10 | 0 | 0.63% | 0.56% | 2.08% |
| 38 | Georgetown | 10 | 0 | 0.76% | 0.56% | 1.72% |
| 39 | Summerville | 7 | 0 | 0.30% | 0.40% | 3.08% |
| 40 | Heathhall | 6 | -1 | 0.44% | 0.34% | 1.77% |
Where the % of homes is lower than % of LTE homes, it indicates areas with above average levels of empty homes.
For a full version of this report please contact the partnership’s data analyst at [email protected]
*This differs from the 6+ month empty figure published by Scottish Gov for Dumfries & Galloway- 1,767
**According to data published by SG
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