Average private rent by council
In September 2026 the average private rent in England was £1,466 a month, +4.0% on a year earlier. Pick your council for its rents by bedroom count, a three-year trend and how to use the figures in Form 4A evidence.
| Region | All | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 12 months | Register by (planned) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Midlands | £928 | £652 | £831 | £1,000 | +3.8% | 14 May 2027 |
| East of England | £1,298 | £900 | £1,153 | £1,403 | +3.8% | 14 April 2027 |
| London | £2,338 | £1,764 | £2,239 | £2,651 | +3.5% | 14 October 2027 |
| North East | £790 | £555 | £698 | £837 | +5.3% | 14 September 2027 |
| North West | £975 | £705 | £887 | £1,063 | +5.7% | 14 August 2027 |
| South East | £1,438 | £1,000 | £1,284 | £1,566 | +3.5% | 14 June 2027 |
| South West | £1,251 | £833 | £1,070 | £1,305 | +4.2% | 14 November 2027 |
| West Midlands | £983 | £711 | £887 | £1,053 | +4.4% | 14 March 2027 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £869 | £615 | £772 | £918 | +4.8% | 14 July 2027 |
East Midlands
- Amber Valley £807
- Ashfield £799
- Bassetlaw £735
- Blaby £998
- Bolsover £700
- Boston £809
- Broxtowe £943
- Charnwood £967
- Chesterfield £760
- Derby £871
- Derbyshire Dales £828
- East Lindsey £707
- Erewash £838
- Gedling £909
- Harborough £982
- High Peak £938
- Hinckley and Bosworth £932
- Leicester £1,020
- Lincoln £947
- Mansfield £797
- Melton £810
- Newark and Sherwood £818
- North East Derbyshire £793
- North Kesteven £826
- North Northamptonshire £995
- North West Leicestershire £920
- Nottingham £1,015
- Oadby and Wigston £1,022
- Rushcliffe £1,050
- Rutland £966
- South Derbyshire £888
- South Holland £779
- South Kesteven £846
- West Lindsey £744
- West Northamptonshire £1,088
East of England
- Babergh £970
- Basildon £1,428
- Bedford £1,177
- Braintree £1,223
- Breckland £935
- Brentwood £1,623
- Broadland £941
- Broxbourne £1,692
- Cambridge £1,805
- Castle Point £1,266
- Central Bedfordshire £1,258
- Chelmsford £1,439
- Colchester £1,200
- Dacorum £1,613
- East Cambridgeshire £1,042
- East Hertfordshire £1,550
- East Suffolk £848
- Epping Forest £1,846
- Fenland £844
- Great Yarmouth £841
- Harlow £1,531
- Hertsmere £1,846
- Huntingdonshire £1,065
- Ipswich £1,002
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk £941
- Luton £1,231
- Maldon £1,137
- Mid Suffolk £1,011
- North Hertfordshire £1,445
- North Norfolk £865
- Norwich £1,148
- Peterborough £1,014
- Rochford £1,302
- South Cambridgeshire £1,407
- South Norfolk £984
- Southend-on-Sea £1,316
- St Albans £1,934
- Stevenage £1,445
- Tendring £1,058
- Three Rivers £1,828
- Thurrock £1,389
- Uttlesford £1,305
- Watford £1,834
- Welwyn Hatfield £1,510
- West Suffolk £1,188
London
- Barking and Dagenham £1,700
- Barnet £1,953
- Bexley £1,540
- Brent £2,018
- Bromley £1,693
- Camden £2,834
- Croydon £1,586
- Ealing £2,126
- Enfield £1,833
- Greenwich £1,998
- Hackney £2,667
- Hammersmith and Fulham £2,861
- Haringey £2,225
- Harrow £1,781
- Havering £1,567
- Hillingdon £1,581
- Hounslow £1,962
- Islington £2,884
- Kensington and Chelsea £3,739
- Kingston upon Thames £1,821
- Lambeth £2,538
- Lewisham £1,832
- Merton £2,181
- Newham £1,931
- Redbridge £1,734
- Richmond upon Thames £2,349
- Southwark £2,516
- Sutton £1,569
- Tower Hamlets £2,462
- Waltham Forest £1,772
- Wandsworth £2,640
- Westminster £3,209
North East
- County Durham £653
- Darlington £691
- Gateshead £808
- Hartlepool £562
- Middlesbrough £699
- Newcastle upon Tyne £1,220
- North Tyneside £860
- Northumberland £696
- Redcar and Cleveland £645
- South Tyneside £746
- Stockton-on-Tees £736
- Sunderland £710
North West
- Blackburn with Darwen £715
- Blackpool £723
- Bolton £902
- Burnley £633
- Bury £970
- Cheshire East £992
- Cheshire West and Chester £1,000
- Chorley £803
- Cumberland £687
- Fylde £875
- Halton £754
- Hyndburn £650
- Knowsley £860
- Lancaster £830
- Liverpool £916
- Manchester £1,380
- Oldham £951
- Pendle £673
- Preston £791
- Ribble Valley £822
- Rochdale £859
- Rossendale £814
- Salford £1,173
- Sefton £940
- South Ribble £809
- St. Helens £811
- Stockport £1,125
- Tameside £935
- Trafford £1,373
- Warrington £903
- West Lancashire £805
- Westmorland and Furness £819
- Wigan £749
- Wirral £862
- Wyre £747
South East
- Adur £1,416
- Arun £1,240
- Ashford £1,253
- Basingstoke and Deane £1,312
- Bracknell Forest £1,481
- Brighton and Hove £1,816
- Buckinghamshire £1,486
- Canterbury £1,288
- Cherwell £1,316
- Chichester £1,340
- Crawley £1,495
- Dartford £1,580
- Dover £1,037
- East Hampshire £1,265
- Eastbourne £1,174
- Eastleigh £1,219
- Elmbridge £1,885
- Epsom and Ewell £1,713
- Fareham £1,179
- Folkestone and Hythe £1,189
- Gosport £1,173
- Gravesham £1,345
- Guildford £1,754
- Hart £1,418
- Hastings £1,008
- Havant £1,159
- Horsham £1,490
- Isle of Wight £953
- Lewes £1,343
- Maidstone £1,303
- Medway £1,235
- Mid Sussex £1,436
- Milton Keynes £1,346
- Mole Valley £1,565
- New Forest £1,249
- Oxford £1,957
- Portsmouth £1,374
- Reading £1,582
- Reigate and Banstead £1,652
- Rother £1,164
- Runnymede £1,600
- Rushmoor £1,391
- Sevenoaks £1,828
- Slough £1,567
- South Oxfordshire £1,418
- Southampton £1,261
- Spelthorne £1,726
- Surrey Heath £1,510
- Swale £1,127
- Tandridge £1,649
- Test Valley £1,236
- Thanet £1,125
- Tonbridge and Malling £1,500
- Tunbridge Wells £1,543
- Vale of White Horse £1,369
- Waverley £1,470
- Wealden £1,266
- West Berkshire £1,355
- West Oxfordshire £1,315
- Winchester £1,514
- Windsor and Maidenhead £1,801
- Woking £1,628
- Wokingham £1,469
- Worthing £1,300
South West
- Bath and North East Somerset £1,893
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £1,400
- Bristol, City of £1,893
- Cheltenham £1,269
- Cornwall £995
- Cotswold £1,263
- Dorset £1,059
- East Devon £977
- Exeter £1,318
- Forest of Dean £828
- Gloucester £1,122
- Mid Devon £881
- North Devon £848
- North Somerset £1,212
- Plymouth £1,008
- Somerset £1,021
- South Gloucestershire £1,474
- South Hams £1,014
- Stroud £1,047
- Swindon £1,103
- Teignbridge £965
- Tewkesbury £1,106
- Torbay £924
- Torridge £792
- West Devon £854
- Wiltshire £1,091
West Midlands
- Birmingham £1,106
- Bromsgrove £998
- Cannock Chase £868
- Coventry £1,022
- Dudley £855
- East Staffordshire £861
- Herefordshire, County of £831
- Lichfield £1,100
- Malvern Hills £955
- Newcastle-under-Lyme £837
- North Warwickshire £983
- Nuneaton and Bedworth £918
- Redditch £982
- Rugby £1,051
- Sandwell £953
- Shropshire £828
- Solihull £1,284
- South Staffordshire £965
- Stafford £902
- Staffordshire Moorlands £732
- Stoke-on-Trent £718
- Stratford-on-Avon £1,150
- Tamworth £930
- Telford and Wrekin £861
- Walsall £930
- Warwick £1,244
- Wolverhampton £948
- Worcester £984
- Wychavon £962
- Wyre Forest £838
Yorkshire and The Humber
- Barnsley £697
- Bradford £739
- Calderdale £760
- Doncaster £699
- East Riding of Yorkshire £724
- Kingston upon Hull, City of £695
- Kirklees £784
- Leeds £1,148
- North East Lincolnshire £651
- North Lincolnshire £654
- North Yorkshire £852
- Rotherham £689
- Sheffield £936
- Wakefield £810
- York £1,206
Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, September 2026 data released 21 October 2026; mean rents across new and existing tenancies. The City of London and the Isles of Scilly have no separate figures. Open Government Licence v3.0.