Housing Map

Social housing in Newcastle-under-Lyme

17.1% of households in Newcastle-under-Lyme are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.

17.1%Social housing
9,150Social homes
53,404All households
Newcastle-under-Lyme17.1%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Newcastle-under-Lyme?

Newcastle-under-Lyme ranks 127th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 53,404 households, 9,150 are social homes (17.1%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Newcastle-under-Lyme compare with the UK average?

At -0.4 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Newcastle-under-Lyme sits close to the national level.

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Newcastle-under-Lyme at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Newcastle-under-Lyme has 64 schools — 57 state-funded and 7 independent. That includes 41 primary and 9 secondary schools. Of the 25 with a published Ofsted grade, 88% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 63 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Newcastle-under-Lyme, offering about 2,501 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Newcastle-under-Lyme sits in decile 6 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 12% of its 80 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £2,280 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme

See Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme?

“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).