Social housing in Buckinghamshire
13.0% of households in Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire?
Buckinghamshire ranks 258th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 220,273 households, 28,532 are social homes (13.0%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Buckinghamshire compare with the UK average?
At -4.5 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Buckinghamshire sits below the national level.
Buckinghamshire at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Buckinghamshire.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Buckinghamshire has 274 schools — 241 state-funded and 33 independent. That includes 182 primary and 35 secondary schools. Of the 93 with a published Ofsted grade, 86% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 458 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Buckinghamshire, offering about 17,210 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Buckinghamshire sits in decile 8 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 1% of its 334 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £4,947 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 Buckinghamshire
See Buckinghamshire 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).