Social housing in Trafford

15.0% of households in Trafford are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.

15.0%Social housing
14,416Social homes
96,243All households
Trafford15.0%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Trafford?

Trafford ranks 169th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 96,243 households, 14,416 are social homes (15.0%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Trafford compare with the UK average?

At -2.5 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Trafford sits below the national level.

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Trafford at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Trafford.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Trafford has 102 schools — 92 state-funded and 10 independent. That includes 62 primary and 19 secondary schools. Of the 43 with a published Ofsted grade, 88% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 174 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Trafford, offering about 7,259 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Trafford sits in decile 8 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 8% of its 139 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £4,000 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 Trafford

See Trafford 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 Trafford?

“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).