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Social housing in Richmond upon Thames

12.1% of households in Richmond upon Thames are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.

12.1%Social housing
9,755Social homes
80,700All households
Richmond upon Thames12.1%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Richmond upon Thames?

Richmond upon Thames ranks 290th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 80,700 households, 9,755 are social homes (12.1%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Richmond upon Thames compare with the UK average?

At -5.4 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Richmond upon Thames sits below the national level.

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Richmond upon Thames at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Richmond upon Thames.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Richmond upon Thames has 85 schools — 62 state-funded and 23 independent. That includes 45 primary and 11 secondary schools. Of the 25 with a published Ofsted grade, 100% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 204 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Richmond upon Thames, offering about 8,048 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Richmond upon Thames sits in decile 9 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 0% of its 115 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £8,173 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 Richmond upon Thames

See Richmond upon Thames 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 Richmond upon Thames?

“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).