Social housing in Wealden
8.4% of households in Wealden 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 Wealden?
Wealden ranks 363rd of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 68,253 households, 5,712 are social homes (8.4%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Wealden compare with the UK average?
At -9.1 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Wealden sits below the national level. It is among the lowest shares in the country.
Wealden at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Wealden.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Wealden has 71 schools — 62 state-funded and 9 independent. That includes 51 primary and 5 secondary schools. Of the 21 with a published Ofsted grade, 81% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 76 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Wealden, offering about 2,732 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Wealden sits in decile 7 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 3% of its 99 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £4,297 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 Wealden
See Wealden 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).