Social housing in Bracknell Forest

15.7% of households in Bracknell Forest are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.

15.7%Social housing
7,893Social homes
50,282All households
Bracknell Forest15.7%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Bracknell Forest?

Bracknell Forest ranks 153rd of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 50,282 households, 7,893 are social homes (15.7%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Bracknell Forest compare with the UK average?

At -1.8 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Bracknell Forest sits close to the national level.

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Bracknell Forest at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Bracknell Forest.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Bracknell Forest has 45 schools — 38 state-funded and 7 independent. That includes 29 primary and 6 secondary schools. Of the 17 with a published Ofsted grade, 100% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 85 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Bracknell Forest, offering about 3,338 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Bracknell Forest sits in decile 8 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 0% of its 82 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £4,713 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 Bracknell Forest

See Bracknell Forest through the other lenses on the interactive map — house prices, recorded crime and anti-social behaviour, road & rail noise, deprivation and broadband:

Which areas are similar to Bracknell Forest?

“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 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).