Social housing in Staffordshire Moorlands
8.6% of households in Staffordshire Moorlands are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Staffordshire Moorlands?
Staffordshire Moorlands ranks 361st of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 42,337 households, 3,647 are social homes (8.6%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Staffordshire Moorlands compare with the UK average?
At -8.9 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Staffordshire Moorlands sits below the national level. It is among the lowest shares in the country.
Staffordshire Moorlands at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Staffordshire Moorlands.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Staffordshire Moorlands has 68 schools — 58 state-funded and 10 independent. That includes 42 primary and 12 secondary schools. Of the 28 with a published Ofsted grade, 82% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 42 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Staffordshire Moorlands, offering about 1,950 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Staffordshire Moorlands sits in decile 7 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 5% of its 59 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,707 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 Staffordshire Moorlands
See Staffordshire Moorlands through the other lenses on the interactive map — house prices, recorded crime and anti-social behaviour, road & rail noise, deprivation and broadband:
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Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).