Social housing in Neath Port Talbot

19.2% of households in Neath Port Talbot are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.

19.2%Social housing
11,998Social homes
62,379All households
Neath Port Talbot19.2%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Neath Port Talbot?

Neath Port Talbot ranks 94th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 62,379 households, 11,998 are social homes (19.2%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Neath Port Talbot compare with the UK average?

At +1.7 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Neath Port Talbot sits close to the national level.

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Neath Port Talbot at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Neath Port Talbot.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Neath Port Talbot has 67 schools — 67 state-funded.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Neath Port Talbot sits in decile 4 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 35% of its 84 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £1,722 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).

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Which areas are similar to Neath Port Talbot?

“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).