Cheapest and most expensive places to rent in England & Wales, Jul 2026

Official statistics · ONS average private rents by local authority, Jul 2026.

The cheapest place to rent in England & Wales is Hartlepool, at an average of £556 a month; the most expensive is Kensington and Chelsea, at £3,629 (Jul 2026, ONS Price Index of Private Rents, 316 local authorities). The middle local authority averages £1,024 a month. Outside London, the most expensive is Oxford (£1,966).

England, Wales and London compared

Group	Local authorities	Median of averages / month	Cheapest	Most expensive
England & Wales	316	£1,024	Hartlepool (£556)	Kensington and Chelsea (£3,629)
England	294	£1,075	Hartlepool (£556)	Kensington and Chelsea (£3,629)
London boroughs	32	£1,962	Bexley (£1,534)	Kensington and Chelsea (£3,629)
England outside London	262	£1,005	Hartlepool (£556)	Oxford (£1,966)
Wales	22	£754	Powys (£622)	Cardiff (£1,169)

20 cheapest places to rent

#	Local authority	Area	Average rent / month	Est. gross yield
1	Hartlepool	England	£556	4.36%
2	Powys	Wales	£622	2.99%
3	Burnley	England	£628	5.38%
4	North East Lincolnshire	England	£633	4.75%
5	Redcar and Cleveland	England	£643	4.66%
6	County Durham	England	£645	5.38%
7	Hyndburn	England	£645	5.34%
8	North Lincolnshire	England	£653	4.40%
9	Pendle	England	£666	5.26%
10	Cumberland	England	£675	4.63%
11	Blaenau Gwent	Wales	£679	5.74%
12	Rotherham	England	£683	4.20%
13	Carmarthenshire	Wales	£685	4.11%
14	Darlington	England	£686	4.84%
15	Neath Port Talbot	Wales	£689	5.01%
16	Northumberland	England	£691	3.95%
17	Kingston upon Hull, City of	England	£691	5.92%
18	Doncaster	England	£691	4.61%
19	Pembrokeshire	Wales	£692	3.69%
20	Barnsley	England	£693	4.62%

20 most expensive places to rent

#	Local authority	Area	Average rent / month	Est. gross yield
1	Kensington and Chelsea	London	£3,629	4.15%
2	Westminster	London	£3,179	4.77%
3	Islington	London	£2,854	5.27%
4	Camden	London	£2,800	4.48%
5	Hammersmith and Fulham	London	£2,796	4.97%
6	Hackney	London	£2,644	5.38%
7	Wandsworth	London	£2,620	4.97%
8	Lambeth	London	£2,519	5.62%
9	Tower Hamlets	London	£2,439	6.25%
10	Southwark	London	£2,431	5.48%
11	Richmond upon Thames	London	£2,318	3.92%
12	Haringey	London	£2,213	4.61%
13	Merton	London	£2,153	4.78%
14	Ealing	London	£2,085	4.73%
15	Brent	London	£2,012	4.39%
16	Greenwich	London	£1,980	5.22%
17	Oxford	England	£1,966	5.20%
18	Barnet	London	£1,945	3.96%
19	Hounslow	London	£1,945	4.86%
20	St Albans	England	£1,931	3.74%

All local authorities

Show all 316 local authorities

#	Local authority	Area	Average rent / month	Est. gross yield
1	Kensington and Chelsea	London	£3,629	4.15%
2	Westminster	London	£3,179	4.77%
3	Islington	London	£2,854	5.27%
4	Camden	London	£2,800	4.48%
5	Hammersmith and Fulham	London	£2,796	4.97%
6	Hackney	London	£2,644	5.38%
7	Wandsworth	London	£2,620	4.97%
8	Lambeth	London	£2,519	5.62%
9	Tower Hamlets	London	£2,439	6.25%
10	Southwark	London	£2,431	5.48%
11	Richmond upon Thames	London	£2,318	3.92%
12	Haringey	London	£2,213	4.61%
13	Merton	London	£2,153	4.78%
14	Ealing	London	£2,085	4.73%
15	Brent	London	£2,012	4.39%
16	Greenwich	London	£1,980	5.22%
17	Oxford	England	£1,966	5.20%
18	Barnet	London	£1,945	3.96%
19	Hounslow	London	£1,945	4.86%
20	St Albans	England	£1,931	3.74%
21	Newham	London	£1,927	5.32%
22	Bath and North East Somerset	England	£1,881	5.71%
23	Bristol, City of	England	£1,880	6.41%
24	Elmbridge	England	£1,867	3.43%
25	Epping Forest	England	£1,843	4.29%
26	Lewisham	London	£1,828	4.67%
27	Watford	England	£1,823	5.21%
28	Enfield	London	£1,821	4.61%
29	Three Rivers	England	£1,820	3.88%
30	Hertsmere	England	£1,817	4.00%
31	Brighton and Hove	England	£1,809	5.11%
32	Kingston upon Thames	London	£1,807	3.87%
33	Cambridge	England	£1,806	4.51%
34	Windsor and Maidenhead	England	£1,805	4.10%
35	Sevenoaks	England	£1,803	4.42%
36	Harrow	London	£1,773	3.83%
37	Waltham Forest	London	£1,765	3.88%
38	Guildford	England	£1,728	4.15%
39	Redbridge	London	£1,724	3.98%
40	Barking and Dagenham	London	£1,696	5.29%
41	Epsom and Ewell	England	£1,694	3.62%
42	Broxbourne	England	£1,687	4.76%
43	Bromley	London	£1,681	3.88%
44	Spelthorne	England	£1,661	4.29%
45	Reigate and Banstead	England	£1,637	4.09%
46	Tandridge	England	£1,634	3.96%
47	Woking	England	£1,619	4.32%
48	Brentwood	England	£1,618	3.86%
49	Dacorum	England	£1,583	4.22%
50	Croydon	London	£1,581	4.41%
51	Runnymede	England	£1,579	4.06%
52	Reading	England	£1,573	5.40%
53	Dartford	England	£1,570	5.02%
54	Slough	England	£1,569	4.71%
55	Hillingdon	London	£1,565	3.65%
56	Havering	London	£1,564	4.12%
57	Sutton	London	£1,553	4.07%
58	Mole Valley	England	£1,548	3.20%
59	Bexley	London	£1,534	4.28%
60	Tunbridge Wells	England	£1,529	4.17%
61	East Hertfordshire	England	£1,519	4.05%
62	Harlow	England	£1,518	5.36%
63	Welwyn Hatfield	England	£1,509	4.20%
64	Surrey Heath	England	£1,508	3.71%
65	Winchester	England	£1,505	3.88%
66	Crawley	England	£1,486	5.09%
67	Tonbridge and Malling	England	£1,484	4.34%
68	Buckinghamshire	England	£1,474	3.80%
69	Wokingham	England	£1,470	3.67%
70	Horsham	England	£1,465	4.04%
71	Bracknell Forest	England	£1,456	4.21%
72	South Gloucestershire	England	£1,456	5.14%
73	Waverley	England	£1,450	3.22%
74	Chelmsford	England	£1,442	4.27%
75	Stevenage	England	£1,436	4.92%
76	North Hertfordshire	England	£1,429	4.08%
77	Basildon	England	£1,421	4.74%
78	Mid Sussex	England	£1,420	3.87%
79	Hart	England	£1,417	3.78%
80	South Cambridgeshire	England	£1,411	3.97%
81	Adur	England	£1,399	4.40%
82	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	England	£1,399	5.01%
83	South Oxfordshire	England	£1,392	3.71%
84	Rushmoor	England	£1,387	4.55%
85	Thurrock	England	£1,375	4.61%
86	Portsmouth	England	£1,367	6.31%
87	Trafford	England	£1,367	4.32%
88	Manchester	England	£1,365	6.30%
89	Milton Keynes	England	£1,343	4.74%
90	Vale of White Horse	England	£1,343	4.13%
91	Gravesham	England	£1,331	4.32%
92	Chichester	England	£1,328	3.66%
93	Lewes	England	£1,325	4.13%
94	Exeter	England	£1,320	5.28%
95	West Berkshire	England	£1,314	4.04%
96	Basingstoke and Deane	England	£1,307	4.18%
97	Worthing	England	£1,303	4.57%
98	Rochford	England	£1,298	3.84%
99	Southend-on-Sea	England	£1,296	4.44%
100	Cherwell	England	£1,294	4.44%
101	West Oxfordshire	England	£1,293	3.93%
102	Maidstone	England	£1,293	4.25%
103	Uttlesford	England	£1,286	3.33%
104	Canterbury	England	£1,281	4.49%
105	Solihull	England	£1,269	4.51%
106	Wealden	England	£1,266	4.05%
107	East Hampshire	England	£1,262	3.56%
108	Cheltenham	England	£1,259	4.58%
109	Castle Point	England	£1,257	4.08%
110	Southampton	England	£1,255	5.79%
111	Central Bedfordshire	England	£1,249	4.11%
112	Cotswold	England	£1,248	3.42%
113	Ashford	England	£1,246	4.33%
114	New Forest	England	£1,241	3.87%
115	Warwick	England	£1,239	4.25%
116	Medway	England	£1,236	4.75%
117	Test Valley	England	£1,234	4.11%
118	Arun	England	£1,227	4.33%
119	Luton	England	£1,221	4.58%
120	Braintree	England	£1,217	4.30%
121	Eastleigh	England	£1,214	4.22%
122	Newcastle upon Tyne	England	£1,207	7.07%
123	North Somerset	England	£1,205	4.52%
124	Colchester	England	£1,196	4.42%
125	York	England	£1,193	4.73%
126	Fareham	England	£1,189	4.14%
127	West Suffolk	England	£1,179	4.93%
128	Folkestone and Hythe	England	£1,176	4.41%
129	Bedford	England	£1,170	4.01%
130	Cardiff	Wales	£1,169	5.20%
131	Salford	England	£1,167	5.91%
132	Eastbourne	England	£1,166	5.09%
133	Rother	England	£1,166	3.94%
134	Gosport	England	£1,165	5.44%
135	Havant	England	£1,146	4.23%
136	Norwich	England	£1,146	5.85%
137	Maldon	England	£1,143	3.56%
138	Stratford-on-Avon	England	£1,143	3.71%
139	Leeds	England	£1,140	5.47%
140	Thanet	England	£1,114	4.53%
141	Gloucester	England	£1,112	5.23%
142	Stockport	England	£1,111	4.30%
143	Swale	England	£1,103	4.34%
144	Lichfield	England	£1,100	4.26%
145	Birmingham	England	£1,093	5.46%
146	Swindon	England	£1,090	4.72%
147	Tewkesbury	England	£1,086	4.01%
148	West Northamptonshire	England	£1,078	4.39%
149	Wiltshire	England	£1,072	3.96%
150	Dorset	England	£1,051	3.71%
151	Tendring	England	£1,051	4.59%
152	Huntingdonshire	England	£1,050	3.94%
153	Rugby	England	£1,046	4.44%
154	Rushcliffe	England	£1,041	3.79%
155	Stroud	England	£1,040	3.67%
156	East Cambridgeshire	England	£1,035	3.66%
157	Dover	England	£1,029	4.26%
158	Oadby and Wigston	England	£1,025	4.47%
159	Leicester	England	£1,024	5.02%
160	Coventry	England	£1,019	5.32%
161	Nottingham	England	£1,011	6.07%
162	South Hams	England	£1,009	3.42%
163	Hastings	England	£1,006	4.31%
164	Somerset	England	£1,006	4.27%
165	Cornwall	England	£1,004	4.23%
166	Peterborough	England	£1,003	4.91%
167	Plymouth	England	£1,001	5.28%
168	Mid Suffolk	England	£1,001	3.91%
169	Blaby	England	£994	4.22%
170	Ipswich	England	£993	5.01%
171	Monmouthshire	Wales	£993	3.67%
172	North Northamptonshire	England	£988	4.56%
173	Vale of Glamorgan	Wales	£987	4.08%
174	Cheshire West and Chester	England	£986	4.45%
175	Bromsgrove	England	£985	3.48%
176	Cheshire East	England	£984	3.94%
177	South Norfolk	England	£981	3.92%
178	North Warwickshire	England	£978	4.51%
179	Worcester	England	£974	4.58%
180	Bury	England	£969	4.73%
181	Babergh	England	£968	3.57%
182	East Devon	England	£965	3.56%
183	Harborough	England	£963	3.56%
184	Rutland	England	£962	3.45%
185	Charnwood	England	£958	4.18%
186	Teignbridge	England	£958	3.90%
187	Newport	Wales	£956	4.88%
188	Redditch	England	£951	4.34%
189	Isle of Wight	England	£950	4.41%
190	Wychavon	England	£950	3.45%
191	South Staffordshire	England	£949	3.93%
192	Sandwell	England	£947	5.11%
193	Broxtowe	England	£945	4.48%
194	Lincoln	England	£944	5.96%
195	Malvern Hills	England	£943	3.35%
196	Wolverhampton	England	£942	5.02%
197	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	England	£940	4.18%
198	Broadland	England	£939	3.63%
199	Sefton	England	£935	4.88%
200	Hinckley and Bosworth	England	£933	4.27%
201	Oldham	England	£931	5.20%
202	Sheffield	England	£929	5.19%
203	High Peak	England	£928	4.20%
204	Tameside	England	£927	5.10%
205	Breckland	England	£925	4.19%
206	Nuneaton and Bedworth	England	£921	4.70%
207	Tamworth	England	£920	4.42%
208	Torbay	England	£917	4.49%
209	Walsall	England	£916	4.89%
210	North West Leicestershire	England	£910	4.07%
211	Liverpool	England	£909	5.74%
212	Gedling	England	£899	4.32%
213	Stafford	England	£898	4.16%
214	Warrington	England	£894	4.05%
215	Bolton	England	£884	5.12%
216	South Derbyshire	England	£879	4.22%
217	Mid Devon	England	£876	3.75%
218	Fylde	England	£866	4.28%
219	North Norfolk	England	£864	3.46%
220	Telford and Wrekin	England	£861	4.49%
221	Cannock Chase	England	£859	4.58%
222	Torfaen	Wales	£858	5.27%
223	Derby	England	£857	4.73%
224	Dudley	England	£853	4.26%
225	Wirral	England	£852	4.45%
226	East Staffordshire	England	£851	4.25%
227	North Tyneside	England	£851	4.75%
228	Swansea	Wales	£848	5.09%
229	North Devon	England	£845	3.50%
230	Knowsley	England	£844	5.19%
231	North Yorkshire	England	£844	3.75%
232	Rochdale	England	£844	4.79%
233	South Kesteven	England	£843	3.82%
234	Great Yarmouth	England	£841	4.59%
235	East Suffolk	England	£840	3.54%
236	Fenland	England	£840	4.38%
237	West Devon	England	£840	3.43%
238	Erewash	England	£834	4.55%
239	Newcastle-under-Lyme	England	£830	4.86%
240	Forest of Dean	England	£826	3.54%
241	Wyre Forest	England	£823	3.91%
242	North Kesteven	England	£820	4.07%
243	Shropshire	England	£819	3.51%
244	Ribble Valley	England	£816	3.63%
245	Lancaster	England	£815	4.85%
246	Newark and Sherwood	England	£813	4.06%
247	Westmorland and Furness	England	£812	4.06%
248	Herefordshire, County of	England	£811	3.36%
249	Derbyshire Dales	England	£810	3.04%
250	Rossendale	England	£808	5.10%
251	Flintshire	Wales	£803	4.48%
252	West Lancashire	England	£803	3.85%
253	Boston	England	£803	4.70%
254	St. Helens	England	£802	5.01%
255	South Ribble	England	£800	4.36%
256	Wakefield	England	£800	4.64%
257	Gateshead	England	£798	5.91%
258	Melton	England	£796	3.54%
259	Amber Valley	England	£794	4.21%
260	Ashfield	England	£793	4.88%
261	Chorley	England	£792	4.13%
262	Conwy	Wales	£791	4.41%
263	Torridge	England	£788	3.51%
264	Mansfield	England	£788	4.85%
265	Preston	England	£788	4.73%
266	North East Derbyshire	England	£787	3.82%
267	Kirklees	England	£780	4.35%
268	South Holland	England	£768	3.92%
269	Wrexham	Wales	£766	4.56%
270	Bridgend	Wales	£759	4.14%
271	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	£755	6.25%
272	Chesterfield	England	£754	4.55%
273	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Wales	£753	5.51%
274	Calderdale	England	£753	4.63%
275	Bradford	England	£749	4.73%
276	Wigan	England	£745	4.47%
277	Halton	England	£745	4.58%
278	West Lindsey	England	£744	3.88%
279	Caerphilly	Wales	£743	4.46%
280	South Tyneside	England	£737	5.26%
281	Wyre	England	£737	4.65%
282	Stockton-on-Tees	England	£735	4.90%
283	Staffordshire Moorlands	England	£724	3.78%
284	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	£724	3.86%
285	Ceredigion	Wales	£723	3.70%
286	Gwynedd	Wales	£722	4.33%
287	Bassetlaw	England	£720	4.11%
288	Blackpool	England	£714	6.12%
289	Blackburn with Darwen	England	£713	5.11%
290	Denbighshire	Wales	£712	4.17%
291	Stoke-on-Trent	England	£711	5.33%
292	Isle of Anglesey	Wales	£710	3.70%
293	Bolsover	England	£710	4.73%
294	Sunderland	England	£704	5.54%
295	Middlesbrough	England	£699	5.24%
296	East Lindsey	England	£699	3.90%
297	Barnsley	England	£693	4.62%
298	Pembrokeshire	Wales	£692	3.69%
299	Kingston upon Hull, City of	England	£691	5.92%
300	Northumberland	England	£691	3.95%
301	Doncaster	England	£691	4.61%
302	Neath Port Talbot	Wales	£689	5.01%
303	Darlington	England	£686	4.84%
304	Carmarthenshire	Wales	£685	4.11%
305	Rotherham	England	£683	4.20%
306	Blaenau Gwent	Wales	£679	5.74%
307	Cumberland	England	£675	4.63%
308	Pendle	England	£666	5.26%
309	North Lincolnshire	England	£653	4.40%
310	Hyndburn	England	£645	5.34%
311	County Durham	England	£645	5.38%
312	Redcar and Cleveland	England	£643	4.66%
313	North East Lincolnshire	England	£633	4.75%
314	Burnley	England	£628	5.38%
315	Powys	Wales	£622	2.99%
316	Hartlepool	England	£556	4.36%

Method and sources

Rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) average monthly private rent per local authority, all dwelling types, for Jul 2026. They are averages across existing tenancies, not asking rents for new lets, and they are not adjusted for property size. The estimated gross yield column divides 12 months of that rent by the HM Land Registry median price paid in the same local authority (see rental yields in England & Wales); it is before costs, taxes and vacancy. Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered.

ONS Price Index of Private Rents · OGL v3.0
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · OGL v3.0

Questions and answers

Where is the cheapest place to rent in England & Wales?

Hartlepool, with an average private rent of £556 a month (Jul 2026). The next cheapest are Powys (£622), Burnley (£628) and North East Lincolnshire (£633).

Where is the most expensive place to rent?

Kensington and Chelsea (£3,629 a month). Outside London: Oxford (£1,966).

Is rent cheaper in Wales than in England?

By the median of local-authority averages, Wales is £754 a month and England £1,075 (Jul 2026).

Are these asking rents?

No. ONS PIPR measures rents paid across existing private tenancies, so it moves more slowly than asking rents on listing sites.

How often is this updated?

Monthly, when ONS publishes the Price Index of Private Rents. The page rebuilds from the latest release.

Estimate, not an offer or a forecast. Gross yields are before costs, taxes, vacancies and financing, and rents and prices come from different sources and samples. Areas are averages: a specific property can differ a lot. Information only, not a recommendation.

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Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (OGL v3.0); HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (OGL v3.0). Data: ONS data released 21 Oct 2026 (checked 26 Oct 2026); HM Land Registry data released 28 Oct 2026 (checked 29 Oct 2026). Methodology · Sources & licences
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Modified by GableIndex (estimated gross yield).