Social housing in Barnet
13.4% of households in Barnet are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Barnet?
Barnet ranks 229th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 148,944 households, 20,029 are social homes (13.4%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Barnet compare with the UK average?
At -4.0 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Barnet sits below the national level.
Barnet at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Barnet.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Barnet has 171 schools — 136 state-funded and 35 independent. That includes 88 primary and 24 secondary schools. Of the 58 with a published Ofsted grade, 97% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 243 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Barnet, offering about 9,981 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Barnet sits in decile 5 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 7% of its 220 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £6,524 per m², from Land Registry sold prices matched to EPC floor areas.
Broadband
Median available download speed is about 1,000 Mbit/s — what can be ordered, not what residents have bought (Ofcom Connected Nations).
Explore Barnet
See Barnet through the other lenses on the interactive map — house prices, recorded crime and anti-social behaviour, road & rail noise, deprivation and broadband:
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Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).