Social housing in Camden

33.7% of households in Camden are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is well above the UK average of 17.5%.

33.7%Social housing
31,249Social homes
92,747All households
Camden33.7%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Camden?

Camden ranks 6th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 92,747 households, 31,249 are social homes (33.7%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Camden compare with the UK average?

At +16.2 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Camden sits well above the national level. It is among the highest shares in the country.

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Camden at a glance

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

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Camden has 99 schools — 68 state-funded and 31 independent. That includes 38 primary and 10 secondary schools. Of the 24 with a published Ofsted grade, 100% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 118 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Camden, offering about 4,337 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Camden sits in decile 4 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 22% of its 130 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £10,251 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 Camden

See Camden 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 Camden?

“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).