Harlow housing stock 2023/4
There are 39,710 dwellings within Harlow. 26% of properties are flats ( 10,324) while houses make up 74% (29,386) of housing stock.
56.4% of residents within Harlow own their own homes while 15.1% live in privately rented accommodation. Therefore 28.5% live in social housing.
In the last five years there have been 2254 new homes built across Harlow, an average of 451 per year.
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Tenure profile
The graphic above shows shows the percentages in Harlow and also how they ‘stack up’ against the East of England figures (Harlow is part of the East of England).
What’s interesting here is that Harlow has a higher percentage than the East of England when it comes to the ‘Owned with a mortgage’ category.
It’s hardly surprising that Harlow has a massively higher percentage of social housing at 28.5%. Harlow has one of the highest percentages of social housing in England.
Dwelling profile
Harlow housing stock 2023/4
It will be of no surprise to those who know Harlow well that terraced property is by far the most common property type (44%). Flats come in second (26%).
Therefore there are far less semi detached and detached properties in Harlow than in the region of the East of England.
New homes built annually
There was steady rise in new build properties from 2011 – 2019. This has been followed by year on year declines. Only 193 were built in 2023.