Social housing in St Albans
12.2% of households in St Albans 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 St Albans?
St Albans ranks 286th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 58,975 households, 7,192 are social homes (12.2%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does St Albans compare with the UK average?
At -5.3 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, St Albans sits below the national level.
St Albans at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about St Albans.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, St Albans has 79 schools — 71 state-funded and 8 independent. That includes 50 primary and 12 secondary schools. Of the 29 with a published Ofsted grade, 100% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 123 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in St Albans, offering about 5,678 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in St Albans sits in decile 9 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 0% of its 88 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £6,462 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 St Albans
See St Albans 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).