The median advertised room in a shared house in Swansea is £498 a month, and half of all rooms sit between £450 and £575. Measured from 64 live listings on 2026-08-09. No official statistics track what a room costs, so we do.
Sharing saves about £182 a month against the official average one-bed in Swansea (£680, ONS) before bills, so roughly £2,184 a year.
Bills change the picture. The median all-in room (bills included) is £500, against £398 plus bills for the rest. Compare the true monthly total, not the headline rent: gas, electricity, water, broadband and council tax on top of a bare rent usually cost £80 to £150 a month per person.
69% 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.