Local fact sheet
Swindon's homes, by the numbers
Swindon in the 2021 census: 95,862 households, 82% houses, 18% flats.
Swindon is a unitary authority, and its seven districts — SN1 to SN5 plus SN25 and SN38 — take in Old Town, Haydon Wick, Gorse Hill and Pinehurst, Covingham and Dorcan, and Blunsdon and Highworth. Ownership sits at 63.7%, close to the national picture; the sharper movement is in private renting, up from 16.0% in 2011 to 19.3% in 2021. Built form is split fairly evenly between semi-detached at 30.7% and terraced at 29.0%, both of which usually mean a party wall and, on many upper storeys, timber joists. That combination argues for checking deflection and levelling the base before boards go down, and for a resilient layer wherever a rented home sits above another dwelling.
Swindon holds two towns in one set of figures: the railway terraces around Gorse Hill and Central, and the estates built out west at Lydiard, Freshbrook and Haydon Wick. Terraces and semi-detached houses run close to each other in share, and the two ask for quite different preparation.
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