Social housing in Wiltshire
14.5% of households in Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire?
Wiltshire ranks 185th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 215,124 households, 31,200 are social homes (14.5%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Wiltshire compare with the UK average?
At -3.0 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Wiltshire sits below the national level.
Wiltshire at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Wiltshire.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Wiltshire has 269 schools — 241 state-funded and 28 independent. That includes 201 primary and 28 secondary schools. Of the 128 with a published Ofsted grade, 83% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 304 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Wiltshire, offering about 11,836 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Wiltshire sits in decile 7 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 3% of its 307 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £3,591 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 Wiltshire
See Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire?
Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).