Average rent in your area
Enter a postcode to see the average private rent in that council area, by number of bedrooms and type of home, how much it has risen in a year and over five years, and where your own rent sits against it.
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What you get
- The average rent in the council area, by bedrooms and by type of property.
- How much it has risen in the last year, and over five years.
- Where your own rent sits against it, and what that means before you serve a rent increase.
Office for National Statistics figures for August 2026, across new and existing private tenancies.
- England average rent
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+4.0% in a year
- Over five years
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from £1,084
- Gross yield
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average price £293,479
- Rents rising
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council areas, on a year ago
Highest gross yields
Fastest rising rents
Most expensive
Cheapest
Gross yield is a year’s average rent as a share of the average house price, before costs, mortgage interest and empty periods. Lowest in England: Derbyshire Dales, 2.8%.
By region
| Region | Average rent | In a year | Gross yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | £2,332 | +3.5% | 5.1% |
| South East | £1,426 | +3.0% | 4.5% |
| East of England | £1,289 | +3.5% | 4.6% |
| South West | £1,245 | +4.4% | 4.9% |
| West Midlands | £982 | +4.9% | 4.7% |
| North West | £969 | +5.8% | 5.3% |
| East Midlands | £922 | +3.7% | 4.6% |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £865 | +4.9% | 5.0% |
| North East | £788 | +5.8% | 5.7% |
| England | £1,459 | +4.0% | 6.0% |
All 294 council areas
East Midlands
- Amber Valley£799
- Ashfield£795
- Bassetlaw£727
- Blaby£998
- Bolsover£706
- Boston£806
- Broxtowe£942
- Charnwood£960
- Chesterfield£758
- Derby£860
- Derbyshire Dales£819
- East Lindsey£704
- Erewash£834
- Gedling£904
- Harborough£973
- High Peak£937
- Hinckley and Bosworth£934
- Leicester£1,023
- Lincoln£942
- Mansfield£790
- Melton£806
- Newark and Sherwood£818
- North East Derbyshire£791
- North Kesteven£824
- North Northamptonshire£992
- North West Leicestershire£914
- Nottingham£1,014
- Oadby and Wigston£1,024
- Rushcliffe£1,047
- Rutland£961
- South Derbyshire£882
- South Holland£775
- South Kesteven£845
- West Lindsey£741
- West Northamptonshire£1,084
East of England
- Babergh£965
- Basildon£1,424
- Bedford£1,173
- Braintree£1,213
- Breckland£928
- Brentwood£1,620
- Broadland£938
- Broxbourne£1,685
- Cambridge£1,805
- Castle Point£1,262
- Central Bedfordshire£1,250
- Chelmsford£1,439
- Colchester£1,197
- Dacorum£1,594
- East Cambridgeshire£1,038
- East Hertfordshire£1,533
- East Suffolk£842
- Epping Forest£1,844
- Fenland£842
- Great Yarmouth£841
- Harlow£1,521
- Hertsmere£1,829
- Huntingdonshire£1,057
- Ipswich£995
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk£941
- Luton£1,222
- Maldon£1,139
- Mid Suffolk£1,005
- North Hertfordshire£1,434
- North Norfolk£865
- Norwich£1,142
- Peterborough£1,012
- Rochford£1,300
- South Cambridgeshire£1,408
- South Norfolk£981
- Southend-on-Sea£1,306
- St Albans£1,931
- Stevenage£1,440
- Tendring£1,053
- Three Rivers£1,826
- Thurrock£1,380
- Uttlesford£1,289
- Watford£1,829
- Welwyn Hatfield£1,512
- West Suffolk£1,183
London
- Barking and Dagenham£1,698
- Barnet£1,949
- Bexley£1,537
- Brent£2,014
- Bromley£1,684
- Camden£2,819
- Croydon£1,582
- Ealing£2,109
- Enfield£1,827
- Greenwich£1,995
- Hackney£2,658
- Hammersmith and Fulham£2,825
- Haringey£2,219
- Harrow£1,778
- Havering£1,565
- Hillingdon£1,570
- Hounslow£1,952
- Islington£2,868
- Kensington and Chelsea£3,690
- Kingston upon Thames£1,811
- Lambeth£2,525
- Lewisham£1,829
- Merton£2,172
- Newham£1,928
- Redbridge£1,726
- Richmond upon Thames£2,333
- Southwark£2,474
- Sutton£1,556
- Tower Hamlets£2,453
- Waltham Forest£1,763
- Wandsworth£2,632
- Westminster£3,196
North East
North West
- Blackburn with Darwen£714
- Blackpool£719
- Bolton£894
- Burnley£631
- Bury£969
- Cheshire East£985
- Cheshire West and Chester£991
- Chorley£798
- Cumberland£681
- Fylde£870
- Halton£749
- Hyndburn£648
- Knowsley£858
- Lancaster£823
- Liverpool£913
- Manchester£1,373
- Oldham£942
- Pendle£670
- Preston£790
- Ribble Valley£818
- Rochdale£855
- Rossendale£811
- Salford£1,170
- Sefton£938
- South Ribble£805
- St. Helens£807
- Stockport£1,119
- Tameside£931
- Trafford£1,369
- Warrington£899
- West Lancashire£805
- Westmorland and Furness£816
- Wigan£746
- Wirral£859
- Wyre£743
South East
- Adur£1,410
- Arun£1,231
- Ashford£1,248
- Basingstoke and Deane£1,309
- Bracknell Forest£1,462
- Brighton and Hove£1,808
- Buckinghamshire£1,475
- Canterbury£1,280
- Cherwell£1,304
- Chichester£1,333
- Crawley£1,488
- Dartford£1,575
- Dover£1,021
- East Hampshire£1,262
- Eastbourne£1,169
- Eastleigh£1,214
- Elmbridge£1,891
- Epsom and Ewell£1,690
- Fareham£1,176
- Folkestone and Hythe£1,178
- Gosport£1,169
- Gravesham£1,336
- Guildford£1,736
- Hart£1,414
- Hastings£1,007
- Havant£1,151
- Horsham£1,474
- Isle of Wight£951
- Lewes£1,333
- Maidstone£1,297
- Medway£1,232
- Mid Sussex£1,423
- Milton Keynes£1,344
- Mole Valley£1,551
- New Forest£1,244
- Oxford£1,963
- Portsmouth£1,368
- Reading£1,574
- Reigate and Banstead£1,640
- Rother£1,165
- Runnymede£1,586
- Rushmoor£1,385
- Sevenoaks£1,809
- Slough£1,565
- South Oxfordshire£1,402
- Southampton£1,257
- Spelthorne£1,696
- Surrey Heath£1,503
- Swale£1,114
- Tandridge£1,637
- Test Valley£1,235
- Thanet£1,118
- Tonbridge and Malling£1,489
- Tunbridge Wells£1,533
- Vale of White Horse£1,352
- Waverley£1,459
- Wealden£1,262
- West Berkshire£1,338
- West Oxfordshire£1,305
- Winchester£1,508
- Windsor and Maidenhead£1,800
- Woking£1,620
- Wokingham£1,466
- Worthing£1,297
South West
- Bath and North East Somerset£1,885
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole£1,398
- Bristol£1,883
- Cheltenham£1,261
- Cornwall£1,000
- Cotswold£1,252
- Dorset£1,056
- East Devon£968
- Exeter£1,318
- Forest of Dean£828
- Gloucester£1,116
- Mid Devon£878
- North Devon£846
- North Somerset£1,209
- Plymouth£1,004
- Somerset£1,016
- South Gloucestershire£1,464
- South Hams£1,012
- Stroud£1,041
- Swindon£1,096
- Teignbridge£961
- Tewkesbury£1,093
- Torbay£920
- Torridge£789
- West Devon£846
- Wiltshire£1,082
West Midlands
- Birmingham£1,099
- Bromsgrove£992
- Cannock Chase£867
- Coventry£1,020
- Dudley£858
- East Staffordshire£858
- Herefordshire£821
- Lichfield£1,103
- Malvern Hills£946
- Newcastle-under-Lyme£833
- North Warwickshire£982
- Nuneaton and Bedworth£925
- Redditch£976
- Rugby£1,049
- Sandwell£953
- Shropshire£823
- Solihull£1,279
- South Staffordshire£958
- Stafford£901
- Staffordshire Moorlands£728
- Stoke-on-Trent£715
- Stratford-on-Avon£1,149
- Tamworth£925
- Telford and Wrekin£861
- Walsall£924
- Warwick£1,241
- Wolverhampton£945
- Worcester£977
- Wychavon£954
- Wyre Forest£825
Yorkshire and The Humber
Sources: rents from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026) and house prices from the HM Land Registry UK House Price Index (July 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
How it works
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Where the figures come from
The averages are the Office for National Statistics’ Price Index of Private Rents, published every month for each council area in England. They are built from rents actually being paid on new and existing tenancies, not asking prices on property portals, which is why they usually sit below what you see advertised. They are official statistics in development, and the ONS revises recent months as more data comes in.
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Why the local average matters now
Since the Renters’ Rights Act took effect on 1 May 2026, you can only put the rent up once a year, with a section 13 notice, and your tenant can ask the First-tier Tribunal to decide the market rent. The tribunal cannot set the rent higher than you proposed, but it can set it lower. Knowing what homes like yours let for nearby is the best way to set an increase that will stand.
It also works the other way. Rental bidding is banned, so you must advertise a fixed rent and cannot accept offers above it. Pitching the asking rent right first time matters more than it did.
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Using the average well
An average covers every kind of home in the area. Your home’s market rent depends on more than its bedrooms.
- Compare like with like: the same number of bedrooms and type of property
- Adjust for condition, parking, outside space and energy rating
- Check what comparable homes nearby are advertised for now
- Remember the figure is a few months behind, and rents in most areas are still rising
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Every rent in one place
TenantTool records each tenancy’s rent and its next review date, so you can see at a glance which rents have fallen behind and when each can next go up.
Common questions.
- What is the average rent in England?
- £1,459 a month in August 2026, up 4% on a year earlier, according to the ONS. Each council’s page has its own figure and how it compares.
- Why is the average lower than rents advertised near me?
- The ONS average includes every private tenancy, including long-running ones where the rent has not gone up for a while. Advertised rents are for new lets only, and are usually higher.
- Can I charge more than the average rent?
- Yes. There is no rent cap in England. But if you serve a section 13 rent increase, your tenant can ask the tribunal to set the market rent, and it will look at what comparable homes let for.
- Does this cover Wales and Scotland?
- No, the checker covers England only, where the Renters’ Rights Act applies.