Social housing in Stroud
12.3% of households in Stroud 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 Stroud?
Stroud ranks 280th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 52,359 households, 6,436 are social homes (12.3%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Stroud compare with the UK average?
At -5.2 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Stroud sits below the national level.
Stroud at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Stroud.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Stroud has 85 schools — 74 state-funded and 11 independent. That includes 58 primary and 8 secondary schools. Of the 34 with a published Ofsted grade, 91% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 82 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Stroud, offering about 2,477 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Stroud sits in decile 7 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 0% of its 72 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £3,633 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 Stroud
See Stroud 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).