The median advertised room in a shared house in Durham is £500 a month, and half of all rooms sit between £450 and £628. Measured from 29 live listings on 2026-08-09. No official statistics track what a room costs, so we do.
66% of rooms accept students. A meaningful slice of the market filters students out, so start looking early and have your guarantor ready.
Paste the listing into the free student rent check and get a verdict for that exact address: whether the rent is fair for the street, how far it is from campus, and the area basics nobody puts in the advert.