Social housing in Huntingdonshire
12.9% of households in Huntingdonshire 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 Huntingdonshire?
Huntingdonshire ranks 260th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 76,916 households, 9,891 are social homes (12.9%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Huntingdonshire compare with the UK average?
At -4.6 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Huntingdonshire sits below the national level.
Huntingdonshire at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Huntingdonshire.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Huntingdonshire has 77 schools — 74 state-funded and 3 independent. That includes 62 primary and 7 secondary schools. Of the 31 with a published Ofsted grade, 97% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 108 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Huntingdonshire, offering about 4,624 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Huntingdonshire sits in decile 8 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 0% of its 111 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £3,544 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 Huntingdonshire
See Huntingdonshire 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).