Social housing in City of Edinburgh
15.7% of households in City of Edinburgh are social housing — council or housing-association homes. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.
15.7%Social housing
37,430Social homes
238,899All households
How much social housing is there in City of Edinburgh?
City of Edinburgh ranks 154th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 238,899 households, 37,430 are social homes (15.7%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does City of Edinburgh compare with the UK average?
At -1.8 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, City of Edinburgh sits close to the national level.
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“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 18 July 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).
Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 18 July 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).