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Housing Map helps you explore any UK neighbourhood before you move. Use the Layer chips to switch between lenses on the same place — social housing, recorded crime & anti-social behaviour, road & rail noise, house prices, deprivation, broadband and green belt & heritage — and the place pins (schools, stations, pubs & bars, restaurants & cafés, supermarkets, GPs, parks) to see what’s nearby on top of whichever lens is active. Tap the active chip again for a plain map.
The default layer shades each small census area by its share of social housing — homes rented from a council/local authority or a housing association — across the whole United Kingdom. Every shaded area is an Output Area (England, Wales, Scotland) or Data Zone (Northern Ireland), 239,023 in all; darker blue means a larger share. More on the social housing map →
The Crime layer maps recorded crime and anti-social behaviour from police.uk; the Noise layer maps road and rail noise. Crime & anti-social behaviour map → · Noise & sound pollution map →
The Price £/m² layer shades each neighbourhood (2021 LSOA) by the median price per square metre of homes sold since 2022 — HM Land Registry sold prices divided by the internal floor area recorded on each home’s Energy Performance Certificate. Tap an area for its median £/m² and how many sales sit behind it. England & Wales only; areas with fewer than five matched sales are left blank.
The Deprivation layer shades each English neighbourhood by its decile on the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (1 = most deprived, 10 = least). Use the picker in the legend to switch from the overall index to any of its seven domains — income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing & services, and living environment — and tap an area for all its deciles at once. The Broadband layer shades every UK neighbourhood by the median maximum download speed available (Ofcom Connected Nations) — what you could get, not what residents have bought.
The Green belt & heritage layer outlines green belt and conservation areas (compiled from local planning authorities by planning.data.gov.uk — coverage is good but not yet complete), and from street zoom shows every listed building on the National Heritage List for England. Protection cuts both ways for a buyer: preserved character, but consent needed for many alterations. England only.
Pins can be toggled on top of any lens: schools across the whole UK, coloured by type and phase — state or independent, primary or secondary. English state schools show their latest Ofsted outcome (single headline grades ended September 2024, so open the linked report); Scottish and Northern Irish schools are inspected by Education Scotland and the Education & Training Inspectorate, so no grade is shown. Also train, tube, tram & ferry stations and (zoomed in) bus stops, pubs & bars, restaurants & cafés and supermarkets (with their food-hygiene rating), GP surgeries & pharmacies (England & Scotland), and public parks & green space.
Prefer a list? Browse social housing by local authority — every UK council ranked by its social-housing share, each with its own page.
Enter an address or postcode to zoom straight to it. The map pins the location and, on the social-housing lens, outlines the census area it falls in; tap any shaded area on any lens for its figures.
2021–22 Census tenure: England & Wales from ONS table TS054 (via Nomis); Scotland from National Records of Scotland table UV404; Northern Ireland from NISRA (Data Zone tenure). All licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts are households on census day, not dwellings. Postcode search by Postcodes.io; address search by Nominatim / OpenStreetMap.
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Figures are a snapshot from the 2021–22 Census (census day 21 March 2021 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; 20 March 2022 in Scotland) and do not reflect later changes — new developments, demolitions, regeneration or tenure changes. This is the most detailed and current data available at this geography, but it is several years old and may differ from the position today.
“Social housing” means households renting from a council/local authority or a housing association. Counts are households, not dwellings. To protect confidentiality, the statistics agencies apply statistical disclosure control (small-cell rounding), so small-area counts are approximate and may not sum exactly. Local-authority percentages on the area pages are aggregations computed by this site from small-area data, not official totals. Scotland publishes a combined social-rented figure (council and housing-association are not split at small-area level).
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