Housing Map

Social housing in Kensington and Chelsea

27.6% of households in Kensington and Chelsea are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is well above the UK average of 17.5%.

27.6%Social housing
18,442Social homes
66,860All households
Kensington and Chelsea27.6%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Kensington and Chelsea?

Kensington and Chelsea ranks 20th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 66,860 households, 18,442 are social homes (27.6%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Kensington and Chelsea compare with the UK average?

At +10.1 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Kensington and Chelsea sits well above the national level. It is among the highest shares in the country.

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Kensington and Chelsea at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Kensington and Chelsea.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Kensington and Chelsea has 70 schools — 40 state-funded and 30 independent. That includes 26 primary and 6 secondary schools. Of the 22 with a published Ofsted grade, 91% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 92 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Kensington and Chelsea, offering about 3,006 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Kensington and Chelsea sits in decile 6 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 17% of its 101 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £14,881 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 Kensington and Chelsea

See Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea?

“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 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).