Cheltenham Open Data Adds Housing Supply & Property Stock
How many homes Cheltenham builds each year, and how its total property stock has grown since 1993.
Cheltenham Open Data has published two new pages: housing supply & student accommodation and total number of properties over time.
The housing supply page shows net additional dwellings built in Cheltenham each year since 2001, plus a breakdown of communal accommodation (student halls and other shared housing) split between student and non-student use — a rough proxy for how much purpose-built student housing has been added or lost. The property stock page tracks the total number of domestic properties in the town every year back to 1993.
FAQs
What Do These Pages Show?
- A year-by-year chart and table of net additional dwellings, a breakdown of student vs other communal accommodation, and a long-run chart of Cheltenham’s total property count since 1993.
Where Does the Data Come From?
- Official government housing statistics — see the citation at the foot of each page for the exact table and licence.
Why Track Student Accommodation Separately?
- Purpose-built student housing behaves differently from the general housing market — it can shift a town’s supply figures without adding homes people actually rent or buy on the open market. Breaking it out keeps the general housing supply numbers meaningful.
How Current Is This?
- These are annual releases, refreshed here on a monthly check so the site picks up a new year’s figures soon after they’re published.