Social housing in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
13.6% of households in King's Lynn and West Norfolk are social housing — council or housing-association homes. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.
13.6%Social housing
9,188Social homes
67,436All households
How much social housing is there in King's Lynn and West Norfolk?
King's Lynn and West Norfolk ranks 221st of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 67,436 households, 9,188 are social homes (13.6%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does King's Lynn and West Norfolk compare with the UK average?
At -3.9 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, King's Lynn and West Norfolk sits below the national level.
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Which areas are similar to King's Lynn and West Norfolk?
“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).