Social housing in Flintshire
14.5% of households in Flintshire 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 Flintshire?
Flintshire ranks 186th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 66,924 households, 9,697 are social homes (14.5%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Flintshire compare with the UK average?
At -3.0 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Flintshire sits below the national level.
Flintshire at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Flintshire.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Flintshire has 81 schools — 81 state-funded.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Flintshire sits in decile 8 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 11% of its 92 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,447 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 Flintshire
See Flintshire 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 Flintshire?
Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).