Housing Map

Social housing in Central Bedfordshire

13.3% of households in Central Bedfordshire are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.

13.3%Social housing
16,062Social homes
120,711All households
Central Bedfordshire13.3%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Central Bedfordshire?

Central Bedfordshire ranks 233rd of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 120,711 households, 16,062 are social homes (13.3%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Central Bedfordshire compare with the UK average?

At -4.2 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Central Bedfordshire sits below the national level.

Open the Central Bedfordshire social housing map →

Central Bedfordshire at a glance

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

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Central Bedfordshire has 136 schools — 130 state-funded and 6 independent. That includes 95 primary and 26 secondary schools. Of the 59 with a published Ofsted grade, 88% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 143 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Central Bedfordshire, offering about 5,785 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Central Bedfordshire sits in decile 8 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 2% of its 175 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £4,116 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 Central Bedfordshire

See Central Bedfordshire 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 Central Bedfordshire?

“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).