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Home Average rent Average Rent in the UK by Area (August 2026)
The average private rent in the UK is £1,400 a month , up 3.8% over the year. Find the average rent, rent by bedrooms and the income you need for 325 areas of England and Wales.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026 · provisional
Countries and English regions
Most expensive areas
Area Average rent a month Change in a year Kensington and Chelsea £3,690 +2.1% Westminster £3,196 −0.6% Islington £2,868 +6.2% Hammersmith and Fulham £2,825 +3.3% Camden £2,819 +1.0% Hackney £2,658 +3.6% Wandsworth £2,632 +4.2% Lambeth £2,525 +3.7% Southwark £2,474 +5.4% Tower Hamlets £2,453 +3.5%
Least expensive areas
All areas A to Z
Area Average rent a month Change in a year Adur £1,410 +3.2% Amber Valley £799 +4.0% Arun £1,231 +3.1% Ashfield £795 +4.9% Ashford £1,248 +3.1% Babergh £965 +3.3% Barking and Dagenham £1,698 +2.6% Barnet £1,949 +3.3% Barnsley £696 +7.8% Basildon £1,424 +5.4% Basingstoke and Deane £1,309 +1.5% Bassetlaw £727 +2.3% Bath and North East Somerset £1,885 +7.4% Bedford £1,173 +3.0% Bexley £1,537 +1.6% Birmingham £1,099 +3.0% Blaby £998 +5.6% Blackburn with Darwen £714 +4.4% Blackpool £719 +7.0% Blaenau Gwent £681 +6.8% Bolsover £706 +4.2% Bolton £894 +11.1% Boston £806 +2.1% Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £1,398 +2.8% Bracknell Forest £1,462 +1.7% Bradford £745 +2.4% Braintree £1,213 +2.0% Breckland £928 +3.7% Brent £2,014 +3.4% Brentwood £1,620 +2.5% Bridgend £763 +7.8% Brighton and Hove £1,808 −1.2% Bristol, City of £1,883 +5.9% Broadland £938 +4.1% Bromley £1,684 +2.7% Bromsgrove £992 +2.0% Broxbourne £1,685 +3.0% Broxtowe £942 −1.5% Buckinghamshire £1,475 +4.9% Burnley £631 +2.9% Bury £969 +0.8% Caerphilly £747 +8.1% Calderdale £756 +2.3% Cambridge £1,805 +1.8% Camden £2,819 +1.0% Cannock Chase £867 +7.2% Canterbury £1,280 +5.4% Cardiff £1,177 +3.5% Carmarthenshire £687 +6.6% Castle Point £1,262 +4.8% Central Bedfordshire £1,250 +3.7% Ceredigion £723 +4.4% Charnwood £960 +4.2% Chelmsford £1,439 +2.4% Cheltenham £1,261 +4.8% Cherwell £1,304 +2.2% Cheshire East £985 +6.6% Cheshire West and Chester £991 +6.1% Chesterfield £758 +2.7% Chichester £1,333 +2.9% Chorley £798 +7.1% Colchester £1,197 +2.1% Conwy £796 +2.6% Cornwall £1,000 +1.8% Cotswold £1,252 +6.0% County Durham £650 +6.1% Coventry £1,020 +2.4% Crawley £1,488 +2.8% Croydon £1,582 +3.2% Cumberland £681 +7.0% Dacorum £1,594 +1.3% Darlington £689 +6.4% Dartford £1,575 +3.1% Denbighshire £718 +6.2% Derby £860 +3.1% Derbyshire Dales £819 +9.0% Doncaster £694 +5.3% Dorset £1,056 +4.9% Dover £1,021 +8.6% Dudley £858 +3.4% Ealing £2,109 +3.0% East Cambridgeshire £1,038 +0.5% East Devon £968 +6.0% East Hampshire £1,262 +1.4% East Hertfordshire £1,533 +3.5% East Lindsey £704 +6.9% East Riding of Yorkshire £724 +4.6% East Staffordshire £858 +6.6% East Suffolk £842 +5.1% Eastbourne £1,169 +1.1% Eastleigh £1,214 +3.4% Elmbridge £1,891 +2.6% Enfield £1,827 +5.1% Epping Forest £1,844 +5.6% Epsom and Ewell £1,690 +1.6% Erewash £834 +2.4% Exeter £1,318 +0.5% Fareham £1,176 +0.9% Fenland £842 +3.7% Flintshire £811 +7.2% Folkestone and Hythe £1,178 +10.6% Forest of Dean £828 −0.1% Fylde £870 +5.3% Gateshead £804 +5.8% Gedling £904 +3.4% Gloucester £1,116 +7.2% Gosport £1,169 +4.9% Gravesham £1,336 +5.3% Great Yarmouth £841 +7.6% Greenwich £1,995 +6.1% Guildford £1,736 +5.6% Gwynedd £724 +6.9% Hackney £2,658 +3.6% Halton £749 +7.1% Hammersmith and Fulham £2,825 +3.3% Harborough £973 +3.8% Haringey £2,219 +1.4% Harlow £1,521 +4.0% Harrow £1,778 +2.9% Hart £1,414 +2.9% Hartlepool £558 +0.3% Hastings £1,007 +1.6% Havant £1,151 +3.1% Havering £1,565 +1.5% Herefordshire, County of £821 +2.9% Hertsmere £1,829 +3.6% High Peak £937 +7.3% Hillingdon £1,570 +2.5% Hinckley and Bosworth £934 +3.5% Horsham £1,474 +3.8% Hounslow £1,952 +3.2% Huntingdonshire £1,057 +3.7% Hyndburn £648 +3.7% Ipswich £995 +4.3% Isle of Anglesey £714 +5.2% Isle of Wight £951 +7.2% Islington £2,868 +6.2% Kensington and Chelsea £3,690 +2.1% King's Lynn and West Norfolk £941 +3.8% Kingston upon Hull, City of £694 +7.4% Kingston upon Thames £1,811 −1.2% Kirklees £782 +12.8% Knowsley £858 +11.4% Lambeth £2,525 +3.7% Lancaster £823 +6.3% Leeds £1,145 +4.2% Leicester £1,023 +1.6% Lewes £1,333 +5.9% Lewisham £1,829 +2.0% Lichfield £1,103 +7.5% Lincoln £942 +4.6% Liverpool £913 +5.6% Luton £1,222 +2.7% Maidstone £1,297 +3.0% Maldon £1,139 +3.5% Malvern Hills £946 +8.8% Manchester £1,373 +4.2% Mansfield £790 +4.4% Medway £1,232 +1.7% Melton £806 +7.1% Merthyr Tydfil £754 −1.6% Merton £2,172 +5.4% Mid Devon £878 +1.3% Mid Suffolk £1,005 +6.3% Mid Sussex £1,423 +3.4% Middlesbrough £698 +4.0% Milton Keynes £1,344 +3.9% Mole Valley £1,551 +2.4% Monmouthshire £994 +2.3% Neath Port Talbot £690 +6.3% New Forest £1,244 +1.7% Newark and Sherwood £818 +5.3% Newcastle upon Tyne £1,215 +9.3% Newcastle-under-Lyme £833 +7.8% Newham £1,928 +2.9% Newport £959 +2.7% North Devon £846 −0.3% North East Derbyshire £791 +3.8% North East Lincolnshire £643 +6.6% North Hertfordshire £1,434 +5.4% North Kesteven £824 +5.9% North Lincolnshire £653 +6.0% North Norfolk £865 +4.5% North Northamptonshire £992 +5.2% North Somerset £1,209 +3.2% North Tyneside £857 +7.0% North Warwickshire £982 +4.9% North West Leicestershire £914 +9.9% North Yorkshire £849 +2.4% Northumberland £695 +6.9% Norwich £1,142 +0.6% Nottingham £1,014 +1.8% Nuneaton and Bedworth £925 +3.4% Oadby and Wigston £1,024 +3.1% Oldham £942 +12.5% Oxford £1,963 +3.5% Pembrokeshire £694 +4.7% Pendle £670 +6.3% Peterborough £1,012 +4.9% Plymouth £1,004 +4.7% Portsmouth £1,368 +2.4% Powys £621 +9.1% Preston £790 +5.9% Reading £1,574 +1.4% Redbridge £1,726 +2.0% Redcar and Cleveland £644 +1.0% Redditch £976 +11.1% Reigate and Banstead £1,640 +2.3% Rhondda Cynon Taf £754 +1.7% Ribble Valley £818 +5.4% Richmond upon Thames £2,333 +4.4% Rochdale £855 +8.5% Rochford £1,300 +5.0% Rossendale £811 +4.3% Rother £1,165 +0.7% Rotherham £686 +3.2% Rugby £1,049 +5.4% Runnymede £1,586 −0.7% Rushcliffe £1,047 +2.8% Rushmoor £1,385 +4.2% Rutland £961 +1.9% Salford £1,170 +3.3% Sandwell £953 +8.0% Sefton £938 +5.3% Sevenoaks £1,809 +5.0% Sheffield £931 +4.3% Shropshire £823 +4.3% Slough £1,565 +2.2% Solihull £1,279 +3.2% Somerset £1,016 +6.2% South Cambridgeshire £1,408 +3.4% South Derbyshire £882 +4.6% South Gloucestershire £1,464 +4.7% South Hams £1,012 +3.2% South Holland £775 +4.2% South Kesteven £845 +1.8% South Norfolk £981 +3.1% South Oxfordshire £1,402 +3.5% South Ribble £805 +5.4% South Staffordshire £958 +5.8% South Tyneside £743 +7.6% Southampton £1,257 +3.4% Southend-on-Sea £1,306 +4.9% Southwark £2,474 +5.4% Spelthorne £1,696 +5.6% St Albans £1,931 +2.9% St. Helens £807 +6.6% Stafford £901 +6.6% Staffordshire Moorlands £728 +7.5% Stevenage £1,440 +4.4% Stockport £1,119 +5.4% Stockton-on-Tees £735 +3.6% Stoke-on-Trent £715 +5.4% Stratford-on-Avon £1,149 +6.0% Stroud £1,041 +6.0% Sunderland £707 +4.6% Surrey Heath £1,503 +1.5% Sutton £1,556 +2.1% Swale £1,114 +0.8% Swansea £852 +6.2% Swindon £1,096 +4.5% Tameside £931 +5.2% Tamworth £925 +0.5% Tandridge £1,637 +4.4% Teignbridge £961 +3.6% Telford and Wrekin £861 +6.6% Tendring £1,053 +4.1% Test Valley £1,235 +6.6% Tewkesbury £1,093 +13.4% Thanet £1,118 +3.7% Three Rivers £1,826 +2.2% Thurrock £1,380 +4.8% Tonbridge and Malling £1,489 +3.2% Torbay £920 +4.0% Torfaen £862 +1.7% Torridge £789 +2.1% Tower Hamlets £2,453 +3.5% Trafford £1,369 +2.5% Tunbridge Wells £1,533 +4.5% Uttlesford £1,289 +0.4% Vale of Glamorgan £982 +2.7% Vale of White Horse £1,352 +2.9% Wakefield £806 +5.9% Walsall £924 +9.7% Waltham Forest £1,763 +1.5% Wandsworth £2,632 +4.2% Warrington £899 +5.3% Warwick £1,241 +1.9% Watford £1,829 +2.6% Waverley £1,459 −2.0% Wealden £1,262 +1.6% Welwyn Hatfield £1,512 +3.5% West Berkshire £1,338 +5.0% West Devon £846 +3.3% West Lancashire £805 +5.6% West Lindsey £741 +10.2% West Northamptonshire £1,084 +3.3% West Oxfordshire £1,305 +1.8% West Suffolk £1,183 +4.3% Westminster £3,196 −0.6% Westmorland and Furness £816 +6.4% Wigan £746 +6.6% Wiltshire £1,082 +6.0% Winchester £1,508 +4.1% Windsor and Maidenhead £1,800 +0.9% Wirral £859 +7.0% Woking £1,620 −1.6% Wokingham £1,466 +1.8% Wolverhampton £945 +11.1% Worcester £977 +5.3% Worthing £1,297 −0.8% Wrexham £770 +3.2% Wychavon £954 +3.9% Wyre £743 +6.9% Wyre Forest £825 −2.4% York £1,199 +6.5%
Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents , August 2026. Open Government Licence. Scottish local authority and Northern Ireland local figures are not included in this release. Averages cover all private tenancies, including existing ones.
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