Social housing in Southampton
21.9% of households in Southampton are social housing — council or housing-association homes. That is above the UK average of 17.5%.
21.9%Social housing
22,370Social homes
102,240All households
How much social housing is there in Southampton?
Southampton ranks 60th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 102,240 households, 22,370 are social homes (21.9%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Southampton compare with the UK average?
At +4.4 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Southampton 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).