Vacant dwellings as a proportion of all residential dwellings in Castle Point and Essex in each of the last five years are shown in the following table.
Castle Point Essex 1 November 2004 1.8 2.6 10 October 2005 2.0 2.8 9 October 2006 2.2 2.9 8 October 2007 2.4 2.8 6 October 2008 2.4 3.1
Data for Essex are the proportion of all dwellings in the individual billing authorities including Castle Point but excluding figures for Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock unitary authorities.
The data are as reported annually to Communities and Local Government on the CTB and CTB (Supplementary) forms that are completed by all billing authorities in England. The data relate to particular dates in the autumn of each year.