Social housing in Braintree
16.3% of households in Braintree are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Braintree?
Braintree ranks 141st of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 64,988 households, 10,595 are social homes (16.3%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Braintree compare with the UK average?
At -1.2 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Braintree sits close to the national level.
Braintree at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Braintree.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Braintree has 68 schools — 63 state-funded and 5 independent. That includes 52 primary and 8 secondary schools. Of the 33 with a published Ofsted grade, 91% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 79 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Braintree, offering about 3,037 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Braintree sits in decile 6 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 5% of its 88 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £3,922 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 Braintree
See Braintree 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).