Estimates of Households and Dwellings in Scotland, 2013

Table 10: Occupied and vacant dwellings by Strategic Development Plan (SDP) area and National Park, September 2013
	SDP area				National Park		Scotland
	Glasgow and the Clyde Valley	Aberdeen City and Shire	SESplan¹	TAYplan²	Cairngorms	LLTNP³	Scotland
Footnotes SESplan is Edinburgh and South East Scotland strategic development plan area. TAYplan is Dundee, Perth, Angus and north Fife strategic development plan area. LLTNP is Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Following new regulations which allow councils to increase the Council Tax on certain types of long-term empty properties, many Council areas have reviewed which properties were classified as being vacant or second homes, which led to changes in their figures between 2012 and 2013. Source: Council tax base return 2013 and 2013 neighbourhood level collection of Council Tax information. Please go to Sources, Methods and Definitions for further information, and a description of the areas covered by each SDP area and National Park.
Total number of dwellings	847,398	223,677	590,162	233,963	9,510	6,976	2,526,870
% Occupied dwellings⁴	96.9%	96.0%	96.2%	94.0%	83.5%	89.8%	95.8%
% Vacant dwellings⁴	2.8%	2.6%	2.4%	3.20%	4.4%	3.7%	2.8%
% Second homes⁴	0.3%	1.5%	1.4%	2.8%	12.1%	6.5%	1.4%
Total	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
% Dwellings with a single adult discount⁵ from Council Tax	41.1%	32.9%	37.2%	37.5%	29.4%	28.5%	37.6%
% Dwellings with 'occupied exemptions' from Council Tax	2.9%	3.5%	3.4%	3.7%	0.5%	0.8%	2.8%