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Rate of Empty Houses

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Rate of empty houses to the total number of houses from the House and Land Statistics Survey. Although second homes were calculated as empty houses in the survey, they have been excluded in this ranking.

The national average rate of empty houses is 12.43%, meaning that there is approximately 1 empty house in every 8 houses. The rate of empty houses is highest in Wakayama, with 16.48%. Yamanashi is ranked second. Because there are many second homes in Wakayama and Yamanashi, second homes for sale may possibly be raising the rate of empty houses. However, the rate of empty houses is low in Shizuoka where there similarly are many second homes, indicating that second homes may not be the only factor.

Regionally, the rate of empty houses is high in the Chugoku region, Shikoku and Kyushu. There are no correlative rankings in particular, and there is no evident reason for the time being.

RATE OF EMPTY HOUSES

Source　House and Land Statistics Survey (2013)

Rank	Prefectures	Rate of Empty Houses	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Yamanashi	22.01%	80.16
2	Nagano	19.76%	71.14
3	Wakayama	18.07%	64.37
4	Kochi	17.79%	63.25
5	Tokushima	17.55%	62.29
6	Ehime	17.50%	62.09
7	Kagawa	17.19%	60.85
8	Kagoshima	17.04%	60.25
9	Gunma	16.62%	58.56
10	Shizuoka	16.32%	57.36
11	Tochigi	16.31%	57.32
12	Yamaguchi	16.19%	56.84
13	Hiroshima	15.88%	55.60
14	Okayama	15.83%	55.40
15	Oita	15.77%	55.16
16	Mie	15.46%	53.92
17	Nagasaki	15.43%	53.80
18	Gifu	15.19%	52.83
19	Osaka	14.80%	51.27
20	Ishikawa	14.78%	51.19
21	Shimane	14.73%	50.99
22	Ibaraki	14.56%	50.31
23	Tottori	14.35%	49.47
24	Kumamoto	14.27%	49.15
25	Hokkaido	14.13%	48.59
26	Miyazaki	13.90%	47.67
27	Fukui	13.89%	47.63
28	Aomori	13.85%	47.47
29	Nara	13.76%	47.11
30	Iwate	13.67%	46.74
31	Niigata	13.58%	46.38
32	Kyoto	13.29%	45.22
33	Hyogo	13.04%	44.22
34	Shiga	12.91%	43.70
35	Saga	12.83%	43.38
36	Toyama	12.81%	43.30
37	Fukuoka	12.71%	42.90
38	Chiba	12.68%	42.78
39	Akita	12.67%	42.74
40	Aichi	12.26%	41.10
41	Fukushima	11.73%	38.97
42	Kanagawa	11.19%	36.81
43	Tokyo	11.11%	36.49
44	Saitama	10.87%	35.53
45	Yamagata	10.67%	34.73
46	Okinawa	10.36%	33.48
47	Miyagi	9.37%	29.52
	Japan	13.52%