Local fact sheet
Gloucester's homes, by the numbers
Gloucester in the 2021 census: 55,406 households, 81% houses, 18% flats.
Semi-detached houses make up 39.6% of the stock recorded for Gloucester, with terraces at 20.7% and purpose-built flats at 14.7%. Owner occupation has slipped from 67.2% in 2011 to 63.9%, while private renting has moved up to 21.3%. Rented homes tend to be refitted between tenancies rather than lived through, which argues for a hard-wearing wear layer and a fitting method that lets one damaged plank come out without disturbing the rest. Across GL1, GL2 and GL4 — Barton and Tredworth, Coney Hill, Barnwood, Abbeymead and Hardwicke among them — the question at survey is whether the ground floor is solid or timber, because one wants a moisture reading and the other wants levelling before anything goes down.
Two homes in five in Gloucester are semi-detached, a higher share than anywhere else in the county. Private renting has climbed by almost four points in a decade while ownership fell, and most of that movement is in Barton and Tredworth rather than in the newer estates.
Much of Gloucester is interwar semi, and in that plan the hall runs to a step down into a kitchen added later. The step is where two subfloors of different ages meet, and it is settled before a material is chosen.
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