Social housing in Bury
14.9% of households in Bury 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 Bury?
Bury ranks 172nd of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 80,681 households, 12,051 are social homes (14.9%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Bury compare with the UK average?
At -2.6 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Bury sits below the national level.
Bury at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Bury.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Bury has 91 schools — 86 state-funded and 5 independent. That includes 64 primary and 14 secondary schools. Of the 43 with a published Ofsted grade, 74% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 84 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Bury, offering about 3,956 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Bury sits in decile 5 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 25% of its 120 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,814 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 Bury
See Bury 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).