Social housing in Great Yarmouth
16.2% of households in Great Yarmouth are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Great Yarmouth?
Great Yarmouth ranks 148th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 44,511 households, 7,200 are social homes (16.2%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Great Yarmouth compare with the UK average?
At -1.3 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Great Yarmouth sits close to the national level.
Great Yarmouth at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Great Yarmouth.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Great Yarmouth has 43 schools — 41 state-funded and 2 independent. That includes 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. Of the 13 with a published Ofsted grade, 77% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 20 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Great Yarmouth, offering about 1,084 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Great Yarmouth sits in decile 3 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 33% of its 60 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,697 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 Great Yarmouth
See Great Yarmouth 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).