Social housing in Castle Point
5.5% of households in Castle Point are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is well below the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Castle Point?
Castle Point ranks 374th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 37,395 households, 2,043 are social homes (5.5%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Castle Point compare with the UK average?
At -12.0 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Castle Point sits well below the national level. It is among the lowest shares in the country.
Castle Point at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Castle Point.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Castle Point has 33 schools — 32 state-funded and 1 independent. That includes 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Of the 16 with a published Ofsted grade, 81% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 33 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Castle Point, offering about 1,367 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Castle Point sits in decile 6 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 11% of its 57 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £4,232 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 Castle Point
See Castle Point 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).