OFFICIAL ONS DATAJULY 2026

Average rent, area by area

The official average private rent for all 316 local authorities in England and Wales, from the ONS. Pick your area for rents by bedroom count, the two-year trend and what homes there actually sell for.

Where rents are falling

Below their level a year earlier, and for how long

Waverley-3.2% · 8 months Runnymede-1.8% · 8 months Westminster-2.0% · 7 months Woking-1.7% · 7 months Wyre Forest-2.3% · 3 months Brighton and Hove-1.1% · 3 months

Just turned, one or two months. Too early to call a trend.

Kingston upon Thames-1.2% · 2 months Merthyr Tydfil-1.1% · 2 months Broxtowe-0.9% · 2 months Hartlepool-0.5% · 1 month North Devon-0.1% · 1 month

Cooling fastest

Rises slowing hardest · last 6 months vs the 6 before

Bristol, City of+7.3% → -0.7%Cotswold+7% → -1%Bolton+8.4% → +1.3%Wyre Forest+2.3% → -4.5%Newcastle upon Tyne+8.2% → +1.4%Malvern Hills+7.6% → +1.1%Tamworth+3.5% → -3%Wolverhampton+8.7% → +2.3%Bracknell Forest+4.1% → -2.2%Herefordshire, County of+4.2% → -1.8%

Heating up fastest

Rises speeding up most · last 6 months vs the 6 before

Camden-6.2% → +7.1%Tewkesbury+1.1% → +11.7%Waverley-4.7% → +1.6%Hammersmith and Fulham-2.1% → +4.1%Brent-2% → +4.1%Gwynedd+0.6% → +6.6%Dover+1.9% → +7.6%East Riding of Yorkshire+0% → +4.8%Islington+0.7% → +5.2%Redditch+1.9% → +6.4%

Adur £1,399 Amber Valley £794 Arun £1,227 Ashfield £793 Ashford £1,246

Babergh £968 Barking and Dagenham £1,696 Barnet £1,945 Barnsley £693 Basildon £1,421 Basingstoke and Deane £1,307 Bassetlaw £720 Bath and North East Somerset £1,881 Bedford £1,170 Bexley £1,534 Birmingham £1,093 Blaby £994 Blackburn with Darwen £713 Blackpool £714 Blaenau Gwent £679 Bolsover £710 Bolton £884 Boston £803 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £1,399 Bracknell Forest £1,456 Bradford £749 Braintree £1,217 Breckland £925 Brent £2,012 Brentwood £1,618 Bridgend £759 Brighton and Hove £1,809 Bristol, City of £1,880 Broadland £939 Bromley £1,681 Bromsgrove £985 Broxbourne £1,687 Broxtowe £945 Buckinghamshire £1,474 Burnley £628 Bury £969

Caerphilly £743 Calderdale £753 Cambridge £1,806 Camden £2,800 Cannock Chase £859 Canterbury £1,281 Cardiff £1,169 Carmarthenshire £685 Castle Point £1,257 Central Bedfordshire £1,249 Ceredigion £723 Charnwood £958 Chelmsford £1,442 Cheltenham £1,259 Cherwell £1,294 Cheshire East £984 Cheshire West and Chester £986 Chesterfield £754 Chichester £1,328 Chorley £792 Colchester £1,196 Conwy £791 Cornwall £1,004 Cotswold £1,248 County Durham £645 Coventry £1,019 Crawley £1,486 Croydon £1,581 Cumberland £675

Dacorum £1,583 Darlington £686 Dartford £1,570 Denbighshire £712 Derby £857 Derbyshire Dales £810 Doncaster £691 Dorset £1,051 Dover £1,029 Dudley £853

Ealing £2,085 East Cambridgeshire £1,035 East Devon £965 East Hampshire £1,262 East Hertfordshire £1,519 East Lindsey £699 East Riding of Yorkshire £724 East Staffordshire £851 East Suffolk £840 Eastbourne £1,166 Eastleigh £1,214 Elmbridge £1,867 Enfield £1,821 Epping Forest £1,843 Epsom and Ewell £1,694 Erewash £834 Exeter £1,320

Fareham £1,189 Fenland £840 Flintshire £803 Folkestone and Hythe £1,176 Forest of Dean £826 Fylde £866

Gateshead £798 Gedling £899 Gloucester £1,112 Gosport £1,165 Gravesham £1,331 Great Yarmouth £841 Greenwich £1,980 Guildford £1,728 Gwynedd £722

Hackney £2,644 Halton £745 Hammersmith and Fulham £2,796 Harborough £963 Haringey £2,213 Harlow £1,518 Harrow £1,773 Hart £1,417 Hartlepool £556 Hastings £1,006 Havant £1,146 Havering £1,564 Herefordshire, County of £811 Hertsmere £1,817 High Peak £928 Hillingdon £1,565 Hinckley and Bosworth £933 Horsham £1,465 Hounslow £1,945 Huntingdonshire £1,050 Hyndburn £645

Ipswich £993 Isle of Anglesey £710 Isle of Wight £950 Islington £2,854

Kensington and Chelsea £3,629 King's Lynn and West Norfolk £940 Kingston upon Hull, City of £691 Kingston upon Thames £1,807 Kirklees £780 Knowsley £844

Lambeth £2,519 Lancaster £815 Leeds £1,140 Leicester £1,024 Lewes £1,325 Lewisham £1,828 Lichfield £1,100 Lincoln £944 Liverpool £909 Luton £1,221

Maidstone £1,293 Maldon £1,143 Malvern Hills £943 Manchester £1,365 Mansfield £788 Medway £1,236 Melton £796 Merthyr Tydfil £755 Merton £2,153 Mid Devon £876 Mid Suffolk £1,001 Mid Sussex £1,420 Middlesbrough £699 Milton Keynes £1,343 Mole Valley £1,548 Monmouthshire £993

Neath Port Talbot £689 New Forest £1,241 Newark and Sherwood £813 Newcastle upon Tyne £1,207 Newcastle-under-Lyme £830 Newham £1,927 Newport £956 North Devon £845 North East Derbyshire £787 North East Lincolnshire £633 North Hertfordshire £1,429 North Kesteven £820 North Lincolnshire £653 North Norfolk £864 North Northamptonshire £988 North Somerset £1,205 North Tyneside £851 North Warwickshire £978 North West Leicestershire £910 North Yorkshire £844 Northumberland £691 Norwich £1,146 Nottingham £1,011 Nuneaton and Bedworth £921

Oadby and Wigston £1,025 Oldham £931 Oxford £1,966

Pembrokeshire £692 Pendle £666 Peterborough £1,003 Plymouth £1,001 Portsmouth £1,367 Powys £622 Preston £788

Reading £1,573 Redbridge £1,724 Redcar and Cleveland £643 Redditch £951 Reigate and Banstead £1,637 Rhondda Cynon Taf £753 Ribble Valley £816 Richmond upon Thames £2,318 Rochdale £844 Rochford £1,298 Rossendale £808 Rother £1,166 Rotherham £683 Rugby £1,046 Runnymede £1,579 Rushcliffe £1,041 Rushmoor £1,387 Rutland £962

Salford £1,167 Sandwell £947 Sefton £935 Sevenoaks £1,803 Sheffield £929 Shropshire £819 Slough £1,569 Solihull £1,269 Somerset £1,006 South Cambridgeshire £1,411 South Derbyshire £879 South Gloucestershire £1,456 South Hams £1,009 South Holland £768 South Kesteven £843 South Norfolk £981 South Oxfordshire £1,392 South Ribble £800 South Staffordshire £949 South Tyneside £737 Southampton £1,255 Southend-on-Sea £1,296 Southwark £2,431 Spelthorne £1,661 St Albans £1,931 St. Helens £802 Stafford £898 Staffordshire Moorlands £724 Stevenage £1,436 Stockport £1,111 Stockton-on-Tees £735 Stoke-on-Trent £711 Stratford-on-Avon £1,143 Stroud £1,040 Sunderland £704 Surrey Heath £1,508 Sutton £1,553 Swale £1,103 Swansea £848 Swindon £1,090

Tameside £927 Tamworth £920 Tandridge £1,634 Teignbridge £958 Telford and Wrekin £861 Tendring £1,051 Test Valley £1,234 Tewkesbury £1,086 Thanet £1,114 Three Rivers £1,820 Thurrock £1,375 Tonbridge and Malling £1,484 Torbay £917 Torfaen £858 Torridge £788 Tower Hamlets £2,439 Trafford £1,367 Tunbridge Wells £1,529

Uttlesford £1,286

Vale of Glamorgan £987 Vale of White Horse £1,343

Wakefield £800 Walsall £916 Waltham Forest £1,765 Wandsworth £2,620 Warrington £894 Warwick £1,239 Watford £1,823 Waverley £1,450 Wealden £1,266 Welwyn Hatfield £1,509 West Berkshire £1,314 West Devon £840 West Lancashire £803 West Lindsey £744 West Northamptonshire £1,078 West Oxfordshire £1,293 West Suffolk £1,179 Westminster £3,179 Westmorland and Furness £812 Wigan £745 Wiltshire £1,072 Winchester £1,505 Windsor and Maidenhead £1,805 Wirral £852 Woking £1,619 Wokingham £1,470 Wolverhampton £942 Worcester £974 Worthing £1,303 Wrexham £766 Wychavon £950 Wyre £737 Wyre Forest £823

York £1,193

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, July 2026. Refreshed as new data lands.