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%.

14.1%Social housing
8,492Social homes
60,223All households
Powys14.1%
UK average17.5%

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.

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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:

Which areas are similar to Powys?

“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).