Is your area building enough homes?
Find your council, then set England's housing policy for ten years and see what it takes.
Your area
Showing England until you choose a council.
Homes built a year
Average of the last three years
Homes needed a year
To keep pace with projected household growth
House price to earnings
Median price ÷ median local earnings, 2025
Where building falls furthest behind
Councils ranked by homes built as a share of homes needed, lowest first. Councils that need fewer than 200 homes a year are left out, because tiny numbers give extreme shares. The Isles of Scilly project no household growth. Cumberland, North Yorkshire, Somerset and Westmorland and Furness began in April 2023, so their average covers two years.
| Rank | Council | Built | Needed | Share | Price ÷ pay |
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Change the policy
Written by AI from the numbers above.
What it takes over ten years
Rough counts at your household growth and build rate, holding today's provision per person. People are households × 2.2. These are not forecasts.
Extra people in new households
Police officers to keep 236 per 100,000
England and Wales ratio, March 2026
Megalitres of water a day
At 136.5 litres a person. The Environment Agency projects a public supply shortfall of 5,000 megalitres a day by 2055 without action.
Extra car trips a year
922 trips a person, 59% by car (2024)
GWh of electricity a year
At today's 3,353 kWh a home
GWh of gas a year at today's use
New homes must use low carbon heating from March 2027, so most of this demand moves to electricity and the grid.
Temporary housing today
Households in temporary accommodation
England, 31 March 2026, including 177,530 children. Councils spent £2.8bn on it in 2024-25.
People in asylum hotels
UK, end of June 2026, 71% below the peak of 56,018 in September 2023. A count of people across the UK, so it does not compare with the England household figure beside it.
Not shown, because no official figure exists yet: GPs, school places, infrastructure cost per home and grid capacity.
What this does not claim
Not a forecast. The price relations are "all else equal". Incomes and interest rates also move prices, by the same source's own figures.
No local price change. The price relation holds for England as a whole. People move between areas, so the tool shows local building and affordability, not a local price effect.
No crime, opposition or carbon scores. No sourced relation exists for them. Police appear only as officers needed per head.
The AI computes nothing. Every number comes from the model. The AI only describes them.
Sources
Sources checked on 15 September 2026. Slider ranges and the ten-year period are choices for this tool.