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. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.
14.3%Social housing
11,367Social homes
79,258All households
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.
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Which areas are similar to Bath and North East Somerset?
“Social housing” means households renting from a council/local authority or a
housing association, counted on census day (2021 in England, Wales & Northern Ireland;
2022 in Scotland). Local-authority figures are aggregated by this site from small-area Census
data and may differ from official totals; Scotland reports a combined social-rented figure.
Sources: ONS Census 2021 (TS054), National Records of Scotland Census 2022 (UV404) and NISRA
Census 2021, under the Open Government Licence
v3.0. See the full notes and disclaimer.
Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 18 July 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).
Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 18 July 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).