Social housing in Wyre Forest
14.2% of households in Wyre Forest 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 Wyre Forest?
Wyre Forest ranks 202nd of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 45,336 households, 6,420 are social homes (14.2%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Wyre Forest compare with the UK average?
At -3.3 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Wyre Forest sits below the national level.
Wyre Forest at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Wyre Forest.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Wyre Forest has 40 schools — 36 state-funded and 4 independent. That includes 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Of the 19 with a published Ofsted grade, 100% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 21 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Wyre Forest, offering about 961 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Wyre Forest sits in decile 5 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 18% of its 67 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,904 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 Wyre Forest
See Wyre Forest 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).