Urbanisation continues as capital records 22 times more housing than Torteval

Tuesday 30 March 2021

There are more properties per square kilometre in St Peter Port and St Sampson's than every other parish combined, a States of Guernsey property bulletin has revealed.

The States of Guernsey has released its annual residential property stock bulletin for 2020, revealing how many domestic properties Guernsey has and where they’re located.

A domestic property is a building, or part of a building, that has its own address and is used for residential properties. At the end of 2020 there were 27,206 domestic properties in the island, including houses and flats. 

Pictured: 32% of all housing units can be found in St Peter Port – it has more than double the density of any other parish.

The most densely populated parish in Guernsey unsurprisingly is St Peter Port, with 8,956 properties. At the lower end Torteval has 406, with only 131 dwellings per square kilometre.

The document showed that 136 new units of housing were created in a lockdown-hit 2020 and 53 were removed, leading to an increase of 83 new housing options. 22 of these were classified as 'affordable housing'.

The bulletin breaks down how much of Guernsey's market is rented and how much is owner occupied. 60% of the market was owner occupied and 27% were rented. 8.7% was affordable housing and only 0.8% were partial ownership properties.

Pictured: The number of residential properties in Guernsey has slowly been increasing year by year.

Despite St Sampson's and St Peter Port having the most houses per square kilometre than all other parishes combined, they also saw the biggest rise in newly created units than all other parishes combined.

St Sampson’s topped the net change leaderboard with 38 new units created in 2020, St Peter Port saw 34 units created last year. This compares to 12 in the Vale, four in St Andrew's, two in St Saviour's; and a grand total of minus three units in the combined parishes of Forest, St Martin, St Pierre du Bois and Torteval.

Pictured: The bulletin allows for a breakdown of residential units parish by parish.

The Residential Property Prices Bulletin is released every March.