Social housing in Vale of Glamorgan
12.2% of households in Vale of Glamorgan 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 Vale of Glamorgan?
Vale of Glamorgan ranks 285th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 57,413 households, 7,011 are social homes (12.2%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Vale of Glamorgan compare with the UK average?
At -5.3 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Vale of Glamorgan sits below the national level.
Vale of Glamorgan at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Vale of Glamorgan.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Vale of Glamorgan has 61 schools — 61 state-funded.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Vale of Glamorgan sits in decile 9 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 13% of its 76 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £3,182 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 Vale of Glamorgan
See Vale of Glamorgan 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).