Local fact sheet
Stevenage's homes, by the numbers
Stevenage in the 2021 census: 36,513 households, 78% houses, 22% flats.
At 46.1%, terraced homes dominate Stevenage far more than the 19.5% semi-detached and 11.9% detached shares suggest, with purpose-built flats at 20.1%. SG1 and SG2 take in Bedwell, Chells, Shephall, Old Town, Martins Wood, Bandley Hill & Poplars and Great Ashby. Social renting covers 26.3% of households, easing from 28.4% in 2011, and a large managed portfolio of that kind is usually fitted to a repeatable specification: one underlay, one plank format, trims that match what is already on the landing. Terraces of a single build period tend to share a floor construction, which makes a survey of one house a reasonable guide to the next, though upper floors on joists still need plywood rather than compound.
Almost half of Stevenage lives in a terraced house, the highest share of any town we cover, and a further one household in five in a purpose-built flat. That is the New Town plan still showing in the figures, and it means most floors here go into a party-walled home.
Social renting runs at one household in four, well above the county, and private renting has risen from one in nine to nearly one in six. Between them that is four households in ten where the floor is specified by somebody who will not live with it — and where the fit has to survive a handover inspection.
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