No official statistics track the cost of a room in a shared house: the ONS stops at the one-bed flat. So we measure it ourselves, from 3,658 live room listings across 37 cities. Medians, ranges, how many rooms come with bills included, and what sharing saves against renting alone.
Method: median advertised rent for rooms in shared properties on the open market, measured 2026-08-09. "Saves" compares the median room with the official ONS average one-bed rent for the same district. Free to cite with attribution to gemhome.
Paste any listing into the free student rent check and get the fair-rent verdict for that exact address: how the asking rent compares locally, distance to your university, and the area basics.