Scottish Borders Local Authority

September 2024 |

Figures published by National Records of Scotland show that Scottish Borders had 1,579 long-term empty homes in 2023. The table below shows how these long term empty homes are distributed across the Local Authority area.

• 2.63% of Scottish Borders homes were long term empty in 2023, compared to 1.70% in Scotland as a whole.

• 63.27% (999) of Scottish Borders long term empty homes have been empty for longer than one year.

• Scottish Borders accounts for 3.53% of homes empty for more than 1 year in Scotland.

The EHO for Scottish Borders

Rachel Whale (01896 661 392 switchboard)

Rachel.Whale@scotborders.gov.uk

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

entries per page

Search:

	Intermediate Data Zones	Number of LTE Homes	Increase or Decrease 2022-2023	% of Properties LTE	% of SB LTEs	% of SB Homes
1	Hawick Central	145	+3	5.49%	9.18%	4.41%
2	Galashiels North	79	0	3.81%	5.00%	3.46%
3	Tweeddale West Area	75	+16	2.64%	4.75%	4.73%
4	Berwickshire Central	75	+2	3.63%	4.75%	3.44%
5	Cheviot East	68	+11	2.75%	4.31%	4.12%
6	Selkirk	66	+25	2.25%	4.18%	4.88%
7	Denholm and Heritage	62	-3	2.91%	3.93%	3.55%
8	St Boswells and Newtown Area	60	+15	3.26%	3.80%	3.07%
9	Chirnside and Area	58	+4	2.76%	3.67%	3.50%
10	Jedburgh	58	+9	2.90%	3.67%	3.34%

Showing 1 to 10 of 30 entries

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)