Housing Map

Social housing in Barking and Dagenham

31.5% of households in Barking and Dagenham are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is well above the UK average of 17.5%.

31.5%Social housing
23,281Social homes
73,927All households
Barking and Dagenham31.5%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Barking and Dagenham?

Barking and Dagenham ranks 9th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 73,927 households, 23,281 are social homes (31.5%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Barking and Dagenham compare with the UK average?

At +14.0 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Barking and Dagenham sits well above the national level. It is among the highest shares in the country.

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Barking and Dagenham at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Barking and Dagenham.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Barking and Dagenham has 68 schools — 63 state-funded and 5 independent. That includes 44 primary and 8 secondary schools. Of the 21 with a published Ofsted grade, 95% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 135 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Barking and Dagenham, offering about 4,926 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Barking and Dagenham sits in decile 3 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 28% of its 115 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £4,833 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 Barking and Dagenham

See Barking and Dagenham 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 Barking and Dagenham?

“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).