Details of the number of empty dwellings in each local authority area in the South West region are shown in the following table.
Number of empty dwellings Bath and North East Somerset 1,881 Bournemouth 3,538 Bristol 5,217 Caradon 1,588 Carrick 1,604 Cheltenham 2,072 Christchurch 722 Cotswold 839 East Devon 1,908 East Dorset 890 Exeter 783 Forest of Dean 1,170 Gloucester 1,881 Isles of Scilly 6 Kennet 1,047 Kerrier 1,597 Mendip 1,354 Mid Devon 989 North Cornwall 1,746 North Devon 1,312 North Dorset 896 North Somerset 2,241 North Wiltshire 1,542 Penwith 1,084 Plymouth 2,967 Poole 2,098 Purbeck 412 Restormel 1,393 Salisbury 933 Sedgemoor 1,575 South Gloucestershire 2,289 South Hams 1,392 South Somerset 2,410 Stroud 1,342 Swindon 1,714 Taunton Deane 1,431 Teignbridge 1,948 Tewkesbury 1,137 Torbay 3,293 Torridge 1,033 West Devon 875 West Dorset 1,244 West Somerset 570 West Wiltshire 1,489 Weymouth and Portland 820 Total South West 70,272
The data are as 6 October 2008 and are as reported to Communities and Local Government by all billing authorities in England on their annual Council Taxbase (CTB) and CTB (Supplementary) returns.