Social housing in Stockport
13.3% of households in Stockport 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 Stockport?
Stockport ranks 234th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 126,681 households, 16,856 are social homes (13.3%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Stockport compare with the UK average?
At -4.2 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Stockport sits below the national level.
Stockport at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Stockport.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Stockport has 138 schools — 120 state-funded and 18 independent. That includes 87 primary and 14 secondary schools. Of the 58 with a published Ofsted grade, 74% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 157 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Stockport, offering about 7,408 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Stockport sits in decile 7 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 15% of its 191 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £3,547 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 Stockport
See Stockport 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).