In India where there are many households which do not have roof over their head, about 25 million census houses were found to be vacant

Vacancy in Census Houses in India for its various states and Union Territories. 

India/ State/ Union Territory #	Number of Census Houses
	Total	Vacant	Occupied	% Vacant Houses
1	2	3	4	5
INDIA	330,835,767	24,672,968	306,162,799	7.5
Jammu & Kashmir	3,603,632	304,413	3,299,219	8.4
Himachal Pradesh	2,933,663	345,645	2,588,018	11.8
Punjab	7,847,447	660,110	7,187,337	8.4
Chandigarh #	298,367	19,878	278,489	6.7
Uttarakhand	3,383,410	336,409	3,047,001	9.9
Haryana	7,088,008	619,804	6,468,204	8.7
NCT of Delhi #	4,605,555	512,691	4,092,864	11.1
Rajasthan	18,070,963	1,846,993	16,223,970	10.2
Uttar Pradesh	45,172,443	2,407,224	42,765,219	5.3
Bihar	23,414,674	577,848	22,836,826	2.5
Sikkim	169,022	16,400	152,622	9.7
Arunachal Pradesh	375,960	32,967	342,993	8.8
Nagaland	534,424	38,873	495,551	7.3
Manipur	609,964	8,102	601,862	1.3
Mizoram	269,431	11,850	257,581	4.4
Tripura	1,066,863	41,960	1,024,903	3.9
Meghalaya	721,467	33,211	688,256	4.6
Assam	9,074,503	290,945	8,783,558	3.2
West Bengal	25,343,715	1,064,427	24,279,288	4.2
Jharkhand	7,796,033	453,726	7,342,307	5.8
Odisha	12,759,133	700,902	12,058,231	5.5
Chhattisgarh	6,799,689	421,827	6,377,862	6.2
Madhya Pradesh	18,498,763	1,021,484	17,477,279	5.5
Gujarat	17,524,030	2,403,117	15,120,913	13.7
Daman & Diu #	89,929	14,652	75,277	16.3
Dadra & Nagar Haveli #	108,783	18,794	89,989	17.3
Maharashtra	33,569,762	3,768,699	29,801,063	11.2
Andhra Pradesh	25,594,996	1,885,565	23,709,431	7.4
Karnataka	17,999,066	1,798,442	16,200,624	10.0
Goa	576,582	125,503	451,079	21.8
Lakshadweep #	21,242	3,401	17,841	16.0
Kerala	11,217,853	1,189,144	10,028,709	10.6
Tamil Nadu	23,166,721	1,641,049	21,525,672	7.1
Puducherry #	387,999	37,439	350,560	9.6
A & N Islands  #	141,675	19,474	122,201	13.7

                                    Source: Census, 2011

The highlights of the above data after its analysis are:

Ø  In India where there are many households which do not have roof over their head, about 25 million census houses were found to be vacant.

Ø  These vacant houses comprise seven and a half percent of total number of houses in India.

Ø  The maximum such vacancy was noted in GOA and was about 22%.

Ø  The other States with two digit vacancy were: Gujarat (13.7%), Himachal Pradesh (11.8%), Maharashtra (11.2%), Kerala (10.6%), Rajasthan (10.2%) and   Karnataka (10%).

Ø  The UTs with two digit vacancy were: Dadra & Nagar Haveli (17.3%), Daman & Diu (16.3%), Lakshadweep (16%), A & N Islands (13.7%) and NCT Delhi ( 11.1%).

Over 3.7 million houses in Maharashtra were vacant.  Even in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh over two million houses were found to be vacant.