Social housing in Richmond upon Thames
12.1% of households in Richmond upon Thames are social housing — council or housing-association homes. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.
12.1%Social housing
9,755Social homes
80,700All households
How much social housing is there in Richmond upon Thames?
Richmond upon Thames ranks 290th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 80,700 households, 9,755 are social homes (12.1%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Richmond upon Thames compare with the UK average?
At -5.4 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Richmond upon Thames sits below 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).