Social housing in Powys
14.1% of households in Powys 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 Powys?
Powys ranks 204th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 60,223 households, 8,492 are social homes (14.1%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Powys compare with the UK average?
At -3.4 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Powys sits below the national level.
Powys at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Powys.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Powys has 95 schools — 95 state-funded.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Powys sits in decile 7 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 6% of its 79 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,447 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 Powys
See Powys 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).