Social housing in Caerphilly

18.8% of households in Caerphilly 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
14,338Social homes
76,268All households
Caerphilly18.8%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Caerphilly?

Caerphilly ranks 102nd of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 76,268 households, 14,338 are social homes (18.8%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Caerphilly compare with the UK average?

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

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Caerphilly at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Caerphilly.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Caerphilly has 85 schools — 85 state-funded.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Caerphilly sits in decile 4 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 24% of its 110 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £2,112 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 Caerphilly

See Caerphilly 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 Caerphilly?

“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).