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EXCLUSIVE: Government reveals where all the landlords live in the UK

Agents wondering the size of their potential landlord market now have an answer after government published list via a parliamentary question.

Nigel Lewis

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HMRC has released data showing how many landlords live in each county, city, London borough and town within the UK.

The figures also reveal that the total landlord population now exceeds 2.65 million people.

lord oulndThis information has been released by Lord Agnew of Oulton (pictured) in answer to a parliamentary question by Lord Kennedy and includes all individuals with an income from property in each place but excludes those renting out furnished holiday lets.

Data for each area, town and city goes a long to explain why Britain’s high streets are lined with letting agencies, with many large towns inhabited by between 3,000 and 10,000 landlords depending on their size and location.

The cities with the largest number of landlords include Birmingham (27,060), Leeds (24,450), Edinburgh (23,200) and Bristol (18, 340) while the London borough with the highest counts include Barnet (31,380), Wandsworth (22,120) and Redbridge (21,260).

The counties with the biggest concentrations of landlords are Buckinghamshire (35,220), Cornwall (32,980) and Wiltshire (26,420).

Conversely, the places with the smallest landlord population are largely in Wales and Scotland including Blaenau Gwent (850), Clackmanshire (1,070) and West Dunbartonshire (1,120).

The smallest buy-to-let hub is on the Isles of Scilly, where just 190 people earn an income from property, the HMRC landlord data shows.

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Local Authority Individuals with property income excluding FHL
Aberdeen City 7,630
Aberdeenshire 10,940
Adur 2,760
Allerdale 3,810
Amber Valley 4,960
Angus 4,190
Antrim and Newtownabbey 4,140
Ards and North Down 6,470
Argyll and Bute 3,710
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon 7,560
Arun 7,200
Ashfield 2,830
Ashford 5,740
Babergh 5,140
Barking and Dagenham 4,270
Barnet 31,380
Barnsley 5,260
Barrow-in-Furness 1,650
Basildon 5,280
Basingstoke and Deane 7,540
Bassetlaw 3,840
Bath and North East Somerset 11,460
Bedford 7,690
Belfast 7,780
Bexley 8,620
Birmingham 27,060
Blaby 4,240
Blackburn with Darwen 3,080
Blackpool 3,990
Blaenau Gwent 850
Bolsover 1,840
Bolton 7,100
Boston 2,090
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 19,080
Bracknell Forest 4,570
Bradford 14,880
Braintree 6,250
Breckland 5,560
Brent 17,570
Brentwood 5,230
Bridgend 3,780
Brighton and Hove 16,810
Bristol, City of 18,340
Broadland 6,610
Bromley 19,730
Bromsgrove 5,250
Broxbourne 4,440
Broxtowe 4,350
Buckinghamshire 35,220
Burnley 1,670
Bury 5,820
Caerphilly 3,650
Calderdale 7,430
Cambridge 7,530
Camden 15,200
Cannock Chase 2,030
Canterbury 7,200
Cardiff 12,640
Carlisle 3,830
Carmarthenshire 7,030
Castle Point 3,270
Causeway Coast and Glens 5,500
Central Bedfordshire 11,510
Ceredigion 3,910
Charnwood 8,000
Chelmsford 8,430
Cheltenham 5,920
Cherwell 7,570
Cheshire East 19,330
Cheshire West and Chester 14,080
Chesterfield 2,490
Chichester 8,750
Chorley 4,030
City of Edinburgh 23,220
City of London 2,030
Clackmannanshire 1,070
Colchester 7,530
Conwy 5,210
Copeland 1,790
Cornwall 32,980
Cotswold 6,820
County Durham 12,880
Coventry 9,810
Craven 3,670
Crawley 2,910
Croydon 16,910
Dacorum 7,480
Darlington 3,170
Dartford 3,990
Denbighshire 3,920
Derby 6,850
Derbyshire Dales 5,120
Derry City and Strabane 4,270
Doncaster 7,650
Dorset 22,800
Dover 4,770
Dudley 6,970
Dumfries and Galloway 5,750
Dundee City 2,930
Ealing 19,570
East Ayrshire 2,180
East Cambridgeshire 4,940
East Devon 9,930
East Dunbartonshire 4,240
East Hampshire 7,530
East Hertfordshire 9,010
East Lindsey 6,590
East Lothian 3,940
East Renfrewshire 3,900
East Riding of Yorkshire 16,010
East Staffordshire 4,370
East Suffolk 12,150
Eastbourne 4,150
Eastleigh 5,500
Eden 3,780
Elmbridge 12,240
Enfield 18,770
Epping Forest 10,480
Epsom and Ewell 5,130
Erewash 3,450
Exeter 4,950
Falkirk 2,790
Fareham 5,290
Fenland 3,240
Fermanagh and Omagh 5,380
Fife 10,060
Flintshire 4,980
Folkestone and Hythe 4,640
Forest of Dean 4,030
Fylde 4,630
Gateshead 4,240
Gedling 4,860
Glasgow City 10,670
Gloucester 3,510
Gosport 2,170
Gravesham 3,710
Great Yarmouth 3,170
Greenwich 10,320
Guildford 8,910
Gwynedd 4,920
Hackney 10,400
Halton 2,250
Hambleton 5,720
Hammersmith and Fulham 11,780
Harborough 5,990
Haringey 12,050
Harlow 1,640
Harrogate 10,190
Harrow 20,970
Hart 5,490
Hartlepool 1,660
Hastings 3,090
Havant 4,540
Havering 10,790
Herefordshire, County of 10,870
Hertsmere 7,590
High Peak 4,030
Highland 9,160
Hillingdon 15,420
Hinckley and Bosworth 4,680
Horsham 8,750
Hounslow 13,520
Huntingdonshire 8,360
Hyndburn 1,560
Inverclyde 1,310
Ipswich 3,040
Isle of Anglesey 2,660
Isle of Wight 6,810
Isles of Scilly 190
Islington 11,560
Kensington and Chelsea 13,010
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 6,390
Kingston upon Hull, City of 2,710
Kingston upon Thames 11,090
Kirklees 13,750
Knowsley 2,020
Lambeth 15,070
Lancaster 5,770
Leeds 24,450
Leicester 9,280
Lewes 5,960
Lewisham 10,950
Lichfield 5,170
Lincoln 2,250
Lisburn and Castlereagh 5,710
Liverpool 8,300
Luton 5,320
Maidstone 7,000
Maldon 3,500
Malvern Hills 4,900
Manchester 10,260
Mansfield 2,590
Medway 7,240
Melton 2,730
Mendip 7,320
Merthyr Tydfil 1,050
Merton 13,100
Mid Devon 5,440
Mid Suffolk 5,600
Mid Sussex 8,390
Mid Ulster 6,430
Mid and East Antrim 4,570
Middlesbrough 2,530
Midlothian 2,590
Milton Keynes 10,330
Mole Valley 6,450
Monmouthshire 5,320
Moray 3,160
Na h-Eileanan Siar 740
Neath Port Talbot 2,780
New Forest 10,540
Newark and Sherwood 5,200
Newcastle upon Tyne 7,590
Newcastle-under-Lyme 3,570
Newham 8,410
Newport 4,060
Newry, Mourne and Down 8,050
North Ayrshire 2,620
North Devon 6,250
North East Derbyshire 3,700
North East Lincolnshire 4,020
North Hertfordshire 6,880
North Kesteven 5,160
North Lanarkshire 4,510
North Lincolnshire 5,320
North Norfolk 5,640
North Northamptonshire 11,730
North Somerset 12,170
North Tyneside 5,350
North Warwickshire 2,340
North West Leicestershire 3,680
Northumberland 12,670
Norwich 4,080
Nottingham 6,070
Nuneaton and Bedworth 3,150
Oadby and Wigston 3,100
Oldham 4,850
Orkney Islands 1,090
Oxford 7,540
Pembrokeshire 5,500
Pendle 2,530
Perth and Kinross 6,800
Peterborough 6,280
Plymouth 7,910
Portsmouth 6,050
Powys 7,720
Preston 4,310
Reading 5,590
Redbridge 21,260
Redcar and Cleveland 3,220
Redditch 1,980
Reigate and Banstead 8,660
Renfrewshire 3,140
Rhondda Cynon Taf 4,950
Ribble Valley 3,700
Richmond upon Thames 18,190
Richmondshire 3,180
Rochdale 4,940
Rochford 3,530
Rossendale 1,980
Rother 5,460
Rotherham 5,890
Rugby 4,790
Runnymede 4,620
Rushcliffe 7,110
Rushmoor 2,550
Rutland 2,630
Ryedale 3,850
Salford 5,610
Sandwell landlords 5,560
Scarborough 5,130
Scottish Borders 5,430
Sedgemoor 6,090
Sefton 7,870
Selby 3,980
Sevenoaks 7,870
Sheffield 14,620
Shetland Islands 820
Shropshire 16,790
Slough 5,130
Solihull 10,110
Somerset West and Taunton 8,420
South Ayrshire 3,470
South Cambridgeshire 10,320
South Derbyshire 4,090
South Gloucestershire 13,030
South Hams 7,520
South Holland 3,380
South Kesteven 6,310
South Lakeland 7,240
South Lanarkshire 7,180
South Norfolk 7,600
South Oxfordshire 9,880
South Ribble 3,620
South Somerset 8,840
South Staffordshire 4,700
South Tyneside 2,960
Southampton 5,870
Southend-on-Sea landlords 7,140
Southwark 12,910
Spelthorne 4,730
St Albans 10,880
St. Helens 3,480
Stafford 5,920
Staffordshire Moorlands 4,510
Stevenage 1,930
Stirling 3,770
Stockport 11,580
Stockton-on-Tees 4,920
Stoke-on-Trent 3,720
Stratford-on-Avon 8,590
Stroud 7,200
Sunderland 4,860
Surrey Heath 5,370
Sutton 9,960
Swale 4,710
Swansea 7,230
Swindon 6,570
Tameside 4,480
Tamworth 1,510
Tandridge 5,800
Teignbridge 8,680
Telford and Wrekin 4,960
Tendring 5,670
Test Valley 7,000
Tewkesbury 4,720
Thanet 5,200
Three Rivers 7,300
Thurrock 4,390
Tonbridge and Malling 5,860
Torbay 6,610
Torfaen 1,810
Torridge 4,530
Tower Hamlets 10,690
Trafford 10,610
Tunbridge Wells 6,950
Uttlesford 6,310
Vale of Glamorgan 6,090
Vale of White Horse 8,130
Wakefield 8,510
Walsall 6,210
Waltham Forest 10,180
Wandsworth 22,120
Warrington 6,750
Warwick 8,540
Watford 4,490
Waverley 9,190
Wealden 10,250
Welwyn Hatfield 5,530
West Berkshire 8,870
West Devon 4,280
West Dunbartonshire 1,120
West Lancashire 4,510
West Lindsey 4,550
West Lothian 3,870
West Northamptonshire 16,990
West Oxfordshire 7,050
West Suffolk 7,970
Westminster 15,400
Wigan 6,450
Wiltshire 26,420
Winchester 8,930
Windsor and Maidenhead 11,830
Wirral 9,530
Woking 5,930
Wokingham 10,800
Wolverhampton 5,660
Worcester 2,860
Worthing 4,700
Wrexham 4,060
Wychavon 6,730
Wyre 5,770
Wyre Forest 3,470
York 8,790

 

July 29, 2021

One comment

  1. If that information is known, it should be easy to introduce landlord licences.

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