Social housing in Dacorum
21.0% of households in Dacorum are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is above the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Dacorum?
Dacorum ranks 70th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 63,397 households, 13,330 are social homes (21.0%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Dacorum compare with the UK average?
At +3.5 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Dacorum sits above the national level.
Dacorum at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Dacorum.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Dacorum has 80 schools — 70 state-funded and 10 independent. That includes 55 primary and 9 secondary schools. Of the 24 with a published Ofsted grade, 83% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 120 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Dacorum, offering about 5,293 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Dacorum sits in decile 7 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 4% of its 96 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £5,092 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 Dacorum
See Dacorum through the other lenses on the interactive map — house prices, recorded crime and anti-social behaviour, road & rail noise, deprivation and broadband:
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Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).