Social housing in Bath and North East Somerset
14.3% of households in Bath and North East Somerset 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 Bath and North East Somerset?
Bath and North East Somerset ranks 191st of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 79,258 households, 11,367 are social homes (14.3%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Bath and North East Somerset compare with the UK average?
At -3.2 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Bath and North East Somerset sits below the national level.
Bath and North East Somerset at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Bath and North East Somerset.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Bath and North East Somerset has 94 schools — 84 state-funded and 10 independent. That includes 63 primary and 14 secondary schools. Of the 41 with a published Ofsted grade, 95% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 122 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Bath and North East Somerset, offering about 3,970 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Bath and North East Somerset sits in decile 8 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 4% of its 118 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £4,300 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 Bath and North East Somerset
See Bath and North East Somerset 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).