Social housing in Wrexham
21.0% of households in Wrexham are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is above the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Wrexham?
Wrexham ranks 72nd of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 57,919 households, 12,150 are social homes (21.0%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Wrexham compare with the UK average?
At +3.5 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Wrexham sits above the national level.
Wrexham at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Wrexham.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Wrexham has 75 schools — 75 state-funded.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Wrexham sits in decile 6 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 11% of its 80 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,326 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 Wrexham
See Wrexham 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).