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People and new homes in North Somerset

In 2025 the population grew by 2,460 while 670 homes were finished: 3.7 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
3.7
Population change, 2025
+2,460

Population change and homes finished in North Somerset

The population's yearly change, net migration plus births minus deaths (ONS), against homes finished (MHCLG and the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland statistics).

Population change

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YearPopulation change
20252,460
20242,552
20233,050
20221,661
20211,509
2020232
20191,188
2018721
20171,150
20162,220
20152,058
20142,294
20132,005
20121,440

Homes finished

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YearHomes finished
2025670
2024660
2023780
2022810
2021950
2020450
2019420
2018610
2017720
2016400
2015470
2014310
2013440
2012400

Year by year

YearNet migrationBirths minus deathsPopulation changeHomes finished
2012+1,319+121+1,440400
2013+1,966+39+2,005440
2014+2,202+92+2,294310
2015+2,275−217+2,058470
2016+2,345−125+2,220400
2017+1,423−273+1,150720
2018+1,176−455+721610
2019+1,351−163+1,188420
2020+756−524+232450
2021+1,921−412+1,509950
2022+2,263−602+1,661810
2023+3,858−808+3,050780
2024+3,213−661+2,552660
2025+3,114−654+2,460670

Births, deaths and moves are ONS's mid-year estimates, each year to 30 June, counting moves to and from the rest of the UK and abroad. Homes finished are new homes completed in the calendar year, from each nation's house-building statistics; England's run below its net additions. A home houses a household, not a person: two or three new residents per new home is roughly one home per new household.

Other reports for North Somerset

Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £308,850 and £350,959 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027
£329,905
Chance of a rise
83%

At the average sale price, a home costs £314,307. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £1,450 a month. The UK sets no cap on the payment; no more than 15% of new mortgages may lend over 4.5 times income.

Payment, two incomes
22%
Payment, one income
44%

Renting the average home costs less each month than owning it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average of all private tenancies. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
£1,212
Owning per month
£1,480

27.1% more homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
710
Per 1,000 residents
3.1

Figures for United Kingdom: North Somerset has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q1 2025.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
1.8%

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 4 times since 1995. The deepest began in October 2007.

Deepest fall
−21.1%
Recovery from the low
63 months

4.8% of the 99,927 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
4.8%
Empty homes
4,830

In 2025, 14% of the homes added came from existing buildings rather than new ones.

Homes from existing buildings, 2025
14%