Average rent in UK towns and cities

We know that moving can be daunting, so we've listed all the top towns and cities in the UK by their average monthly rent so you can see where best suits your budget.

Average rents are updated every quarter - last updated January 2026

Town/City	Average monthly room rent
Aberdeen	£517
Aldershot	£668
Ashford	£694
Aylesbury	£691
Barnet	£853
Barnsley	£492
Barry	£569
Basildon	£720
Basingstoke	£669
Bath	£832
Bedford	£628
Belfast	£589
Benfleet	£815
Birkenhead	£525
Birmingham	£618
Blackburn	£485
Blackpool	£518
Bognor Regis	£676
Bolton	£575
Bootle	£527
Bournemouth	£661
Bracknell	£707
Bradford	£472
Brentwood	£807
Brighton	£750
Bristol	£737
Bromley	£807
Burnley	£470
Bury	£620
Cambridge	£788
Cannock	£598
Canterbury	£600
Cardiff	£666
Carlisle	£586
Chatham	£642
Cheadle	£689
Chelmsford	£704
Cheltenham	£655
Chester	£628
Chesterfield	£553
Clacton-on-Sea	£628
Colchester	£642
Corby	£576
Coventry	£560
Crawley	£719
Crewe	£516
Croydon	£823
Darlington	£493
Dartford	£768
Derby	£585
Dewsbury	£553
Doncaster	£499
Dorchester	£645
Dudley	£551
Dumfries	£564
Dundee	£596
Dunstable	£660
Durham	£638
Eastbourne	£671
Eastleigh	£673
Edinburgh	£778
Ellesmere Port	£605
Enfield	£820
Epsom	£792
Esher	£740
Exeter	£674
Falkirk	£658
Fareham	£668
Farnborough	£684
Gateshead	£568
Gillingham	£639
Glasgow	£690
Gloucester	£617
Gosport	£643
Gravesend	£710
Grays	£737
Great Yarmouth	£570
Grimsby	£497
Guildford	£797
Halesowen	£541
Halifax	£548
Harlow	£700
Harrogate	£623
Harrow	£821
Hartlepool	£499
Hastings	£666
Hemel Hempstead	£705
Hereford	£622
High Wycombe	£705
Horsham	£735
Hove	£773
Huddersfield	£485
Hull	£512
Ilford	£781
Inverness	£649
Ipswich	£629
Isle of Man	£696
Isle of Wight	£596
Keighley	£598
Kettering	£569
Kidderminster	£541
Kilmarnock	£624
Kingston upon Thames	£922
Kirkcaldy	£587
Lancaster	£574
Leamington Spa	£616
Leeds	£565
Leicester	£566
Lincoln	£517
Lisburn	£609
Littlehampton	£653
Liverpool	£555
Livingston	£597
London	£985
Londonderry	£566
Loughborough	£582
Lowestoft	£589
Luton	£624
Macclesfield	£602
Maidenhead	£757
Maidstone	£709
Manchester	£691
Mansfield	£523
Margate	£655
Middlesbrough	£477
Milton Keynes	£693
Morecambe	£656
Motherwell	£552
Newcastle upon Tyne	£605
Newcastle-under-Lyme	£530
Newport	£573
Northampton	£595
Norwich	£603
Nottingham	£589
Nuneaton	£560
Oldbury	£548
Oldham	£591
Oxford	£831
Paisley	£542
Perth	£546
Peterborough	£587
Plymouth	£573
Poole	£699
Portsmouth	£650
Preston	£529
Reading	£712
Redditch	£564
Redhill	£818
Reigate	£791
Rochdale	£591
Rotherham	£492
Rugby	£595
Runcorn	£565
Sale	£671
Salford	£731
Salisbury	£667
Scunthorpe	£498
Sheffield	£521
Shrewsbury	£579
Slough	£726
Smethwick	£603
Solihull	£647
South Shields	£523
Southall	£790
Southampton	£660
Southend-on-Sea	£683
Southport	£583
St. Albans	£813
St. Helens	£532
Stafford	£569
Staines	£799
Stevenage	£711
Stockport	£681
Stockton-on-Tees	£482
Stoke-on-Trent	£505
Stourbridge	£649
Sunderland	£516
Sutton Coldfield	£649
Swansea	£528
Swindon	£671
Tamworth	£590
Taunton	£679
Telford	£559
Tonbridge	£706
Torquay	£576
Truro	£676
Tunbridge Wells	£747
Twickenham	£914
Wakefield	£521
Wallasey	£526
Walsall	£534
Waltham Cross	£753
Warrington	£613
Waterlooville	£637
Watford	£791
West Bromwich	£520
Weston-Super-Mare	£643
Widnes	£590
Wigan	£565
Woking	£803
Wolverhampton	£553
Worcester	£597
Worthing	£711
York	£732

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Methodology

Average room rents come from SpareRoom's Rental Index (ads include bills)

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