Housing Map

Social housing in Blackburn with Darwen

18.8% of households in Blackburn with Darwen are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.

18.8%Social housing
11,024Social homes
58,773All households
Blackburn with Darwen18.8%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Blackburn with Darwen?

Blackburn with Darwen ranks 104th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 58,773 households, 11,024 are social homes (18.8%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Blackburn with Darwen compare with the UK average?

At +1.3 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Blackburn with Darwen sits close to the national level.

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Blackburn with Darwen at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Blackburn with Darwen.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Blackburn with Darwen has 90 schools — 79 state-funded and 11 independent. That includes 57 primary and 12 secondary schools. Of the 28 with a published Ofsted grade, 93% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 65 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Blackburn with Darwen, offering about 3,620 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Blackburn with Darwen sits in decile 2 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 58% of its 91 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £1,519 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 Blackburn with Darwen

See Blackburn with Darwen 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 Blackburn with Darwen?

“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).