Social housing in Carmarthenshire
14.3% of households in Carmarthenshire 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 Carmarthenshire?
Carmarthenshire ranks 196th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 81,747 households, 11,694 are social homes (14.3%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Carmarthenshire compare with the UK average?
At -3.2 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Carmarthenshire sits below the national level.
Carmarthenshire at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Carmarthenshire.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Carmarthenshire has 119 schools — 119 state-funded.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Carmarthenshire sits in decile 5 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 11% of its 110 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,014 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 Carmarthenshire
See Carmarthenshire 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 Carmarthenshire?
Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).