Insee Focus · September 2025 · n° 359

Housing stock on 1 January 2025 Housing stock growth on a decelerating path since 2010

On 1 January 2025, in France excluding Mayotte, the housing stock amounted to 38.4 million housing units. 82.5% of dwellings were main residences and 54.4% were one family dwellings. Since 2010, the growth of housing stock slowed down: the number of housing units rose on average by 0.9% per year since 2018, compared to +1.2% per year between 2000 and 2009.

After increasing sharply between 2005 and 2019, the proportion of vacant dwellings fell, from 8.1% in 2019 to 7.7 % in 2025; the latter share corresponded to 3.0 million vacant housing units. In addition, 3.8 million dwellings were second homes and occasional dwellings; after increasing between 2011 and 2017, their proportion remained stable since then.

57.4% of households owned their main residences, a proportion that increased between 1997 and 2013 and remained almost stable from 2014 onwards.