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People and new homes in Lambeth

In 2025 the population fell by 4,440 while 900 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025
900
Population change, 2025
−4,440

Population change and homes finished in Lambeth

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
2025-4,440
2024-1,622
20231,660
20221,148
2021-6,411
2020-2,947
20191,736
20182,818
20171,748
20164,822
20155,743
20144,808
20134,588
20126,486

Homes finished

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YearHomes finished
2025900
2024460
2023160
2022100
2021110
2020760
2019740
2018620
2017770
2016500
20151,310
2014960
2013470
2012420

Year by year

YearNet migrationBirths minus deathsPopulation changeHomes finished
2012+3,044+3,442+6,486420
2013+1,370+3,218+4,588470
2014+1,607+3,201+4,808960
2015+2,645+3,098+5,7431,310
2016+1,890+2,932+4,822500
2017−1,082+2,830+1,748770
2018+181+2,637+2,818620
2019−724+2,460+1,736740
2020−4,903+1,956−2,947760
2021−8,279+1,868−6,411110
2022−865+2,013+1,148100
2023−74+1,734+1,660160
2024−3,467+1,845−1,622460
2025−6,251+1,811−4,440900

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 Lambeth

Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £490,422 and £563,750 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027
£527,086
Chance of a rise
32%

At the average sale price, a home costs £540,198. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £2,492 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
30%
Payment, one income
61%

Owning and renting the average home cost about the same each month. 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
£2,538
Owning per month
£2,543

60.8% more homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
590
Per 1,000 residents
1.9

Figures for United Kingdom: Lambeth 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 14 times since 1995. The deepest began in October 2007.

Deepest fall
−22.8%
Recovery from the low
37 months

7.8% of the 146,411 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
7.8%
Empty homes
11,420

In 2025, 19% of the homes added came from existing buildings rather than new ones.

Homes from existing buildings, 2025
19%