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Household and Dwelling Estimates by Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)

Last update: 20 June 2024
Next update: June 2025

This section provides household and dwelling estimates for Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 areas in Scotland. More information is available on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation section of the Scottish Government website.

Levels of deprivation in an area change over time. The most deprived data zones in SIMD 2020 may not have been the most deprived data zones in, for example, 2011. These SIMD household and dwelling estimates show how the number of household and dwelling statistics in the SIMD 2020 deciles have changed over time.

Household Estimates provide data on the number and percentage of dwellings which are occupied, vacant, unoccupied exemptions, long-term empty, second homes, occupied and exempt from paying council tax, or that are receiving a ‘single adult’ Council Tax discount. The estimates are available for each year from 2014 onwards.

Dwelling Estimates provide data on the number and characteristics of dwellings including Council Tax Band, type of dwelling, number of rooms per dwelling and number of dwellings per hectare. The estimates are available for each year from 2005 onwards. Data for 2018 to 2023 on type of dwelling and number of rooms are not yet available for publication.

The datasets are in Excel format.