South Lanarkshire Local Authority

September 2024 |

Figures published by National Records of Scotland show that South Lanarkshire had 1,640 long-term empty homes in 2023. The table below shows how these long term empty homes are distributed across the Local Authority area.

• 1.03% of South Lanarkshire’s homes were long term empty in 2023, compared to 1.70% in Scotland as a whole.

• 91.04% (1,493) of South Lanarkshire’s long term empty homes have been empty for longer than one year.

• South Lanarkshire accounts for 5.28% of homes empty for more than 1 year in Scotland.

The EHOs for South Lanarkshire

Aileen Muir (01698 454121)

Aileen.Muir@southlanarkshire.gov.uk

Julie Ann Gallagher (JulieAnn.Gallagher@southlanarkshire.gov.uk)

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

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	Intermediate Data Zones	Number of LTE Homes	Increase or Decrease 2022-2023	% of Properties LTE	% of South Lanarkshire LTEs	% of SL Homes
1	Douglas, Coalburn and Rigside	113	+5	4.89%	6.89%	1.46%
2	Biggar, Symington, Thankerton and Dolphinton	62	+16	2.07%	3.78%	1.89%
3	Hamilton Centre and Low Parks	45	-4	1.70%	2.74%	1.67%
4	Clydesdale South	40	-6	3.10%	2.44%	0.81%
5	Stonehouse	37	+14	1.34%	2.26%	1.74%
6	High Blantyre	37	+10	1.83%	2.26%	1.27%
7	Carstairs, Carstairs Junction and Carnwath	34	+9	1.50%	2.07%	1.43%
8	Lanark South	31	+5	1.62%	1.89%	1.20%
9	Burnbank Central and Udston	30	+4	1.16%	1.83%	1.63%
10	Strathaven South	29	+3	1.31%	1.77%	1.40%

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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)