Social housing in North Ayrshire
26.4% of households in North Ayrshire are social housing — council or housing-association homes. That is above the UK average of 17.5%.
26.4%Social housing
16,968Social homes
64,214All households
How much social housing is there in North Ayrshire?
North Ayrshire ranks 26th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 64,214 households, 16,968 are social homes (26.4%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does North Ayrshire compare with the UK average?
At +8.9 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, North Ayrshire sits above the national level.
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“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).