Local fact sheet
Peterborough's homes, by the numbers
Peterborough in the 2021 census: 84,533 households, 83% houses, 17% flats.
Owner occupation in Peterborough sits at 55.5%, down from 59.3% a decade earlier, with social renting at 18.6% and private renting at 24.4%. That much renting shapes what gets specified: landlords and agents buy for the next several tenancies, so scratch resistance and the option of swapping a single board outrank almost everything else. The built stock is house-dominated at 82.5%, and 27.9% of it detached, which normally means a solid base downstairs and timber upstairs — two different preparations under one roof, and two different underlays. PE1 to PE4 and PE7 take in Bretton, Dogsthorpe, Gunthorpe, Hampton Vale, Fletton and Woodston, and Glinton and Castor.
Peterborough combines historic Cathedral-area properties with extensive modern developments at Hampton, Stanground South and the rapidly growing Great Haddon area, plus established family suburbs in Werrington, Bretton and Orton. The Cathedral city’s position on the East Coast Main Line (50-minute trains to London Kings Cross), A1 and A14 makes it one of the UK’s fastest-growing cities.
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