Social housing in Copeland
17.6% of households in Copeland are social housing — council or housing-association homes. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.
17.6%Social housing
5,428Social homes
30,780All households
How much social housing is there in Copeland?
Copeland ranks 121st of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 30,780 households, 5,428 are social homes (17.6%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Copeland compare with the UK average?
At +0.1 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Copeland sits close to the national level.
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Which areas are similar to Copeland?
“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).