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People and new homes in Newcastle upon Tyne

In 2025 the population grew by 1,989 while 730 homes were finished: 2.7 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
2.7
Population change, 2025
+1,989

Population change and homes finished in Newcastle upon Tyne

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
20251,989
20245,508
20238,505
20226,314
20211,823
20203,117
20193,581
20184,172
20172,019
20162,650
20151,262
20142,654
20133,596
20121,766

Homes finished

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YearHomes finished
2025730
2024790
20231,050
20221,120
20211,220
20201,000
2019960
2018820
2017790
2016900
2015530
2014600
2013470
2012390

Year by year

YearNet migrationBirths minus deathsPopulation changeHomes finished
2012+794+972+1,766390
2013+2,588+1,008+3,596470
2014+1,606+1,048+2,654600
2015+657+605+1,262530
2016+1,772+878+2,650900
2017+1,241+778+2,019790
2018+3,551+621+4,172820
2019+2,774+807+3,581960
2020+2,953+164+3,1171,000
2021+1,376+447+1,8231,220
2022+5,856+458+6,3141,120
2023+8,204+301+8,5051,050
2024+5,191+317+5,508790
2025+1,560+429+1,989730

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 Newcastle upon Tyne

Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £210,317 and £234,161 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027
£222,239
Chance of a rise
88%

At the average sale price, a home costs £211,255. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £975 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
16%
Payment, one income
33%

Owning the average home costs less each month than renting 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
£1,220
Owning per month
£995

155.4% more homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
2,740
Per 1,000 residents
8.5

Figures for United Kingdom: Newcastle upon Tyne 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 11 times since 1995. The deepest began in July 2007.

Deepest fall
−19.3%
Recovery from the low
81 months

4.8% of the 129,553 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
4.8%
Empty homes
6,200

In 2025, 3% of the homes added came from existing buildings rather than new ones.

Homes from existing buildings, 2025
3%