Local fact sheet
Derby's homes, by the numbers
Derby in the 2021 census: 105,653 households, 85% houses, 15% flats.
Semi-detached houses take close to two in five of Derby, with terraces concentrated in Arboretum, Abbey and the streets off Normanton Road. Those terraces were built for people walking to work in the railway and engineering trades, and they were built narrow.
Derby combines Victorian and Edwardian terraces near the Cathedral Quarter with substantial inter-war and 1930s family homes in Littleover, Mickleover and Allestree, plus modern developments around Chellaston and the Riverlights regeneration. The city’s engineering heritage, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Bombardier, drives a strong professional population with consistent renovation demand.
The terraces off Normanton Road and through Arboretum were built narrow. A long board has to turn from the front door into the hall and then into the room, and with a staircase rising straight off the entrance there may not be room to make that turn.
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