Average rent across the UK, city by city

Median rents, live listing counts and market data for 50 UK cities, computed from 265,376 live rental listings Flatscout tracks and de-duplicates across Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom. Each city page adds rents by bedroom and postcode district, the ONS rent trend, affordability, crime, schools, broadband and EPC data.

London

• London — median £2,750/mo, 118,240 live rentals

South East

• Reading — median £1,500/mo, 3,473 live rentals
• Brighton — median £1,600/mo, 3,325 live rentals
• Southampton — median £1,200/mo, 2,984 live rentals
• Oxford — median £1,950/mo, 2,248 live rentals
• Slough — median £1,500/mo, 2,080 live rentals
• Milton Keynes — median £1,395/mo, 1,733 live rentals
• Canterbury — median £1,100/mo, 1,514 live rentals
• Guildford — median £1,750/mo, 1,177 live rentals
• Portsmouth — median £1,263/mo, 910 live rentals

North West

• Manchester — median £1,350/mo, 10,627 live rentals
• Liverpool — median £900/mo, 5,876 live rentals
• Salford — median £1,300/mo, 4,288 live rentals
• Preston — median £845/mo, 1,306 live rentals
• Bolton — median £900/mo, 982 live rentals

Yorkshire and the Humber

• Leeds — median £1,200/mo, 8,236 live rentals
• Sheffield — median £875/mo, 3,729 live rentals
• Hull — median £700/mo, 1,740 live rentals
• Doncaster — median £750/mo, 1,293 live rentals
• Bradford — median £750/mo, 1,160 live rentals
• Huddersfield — median £700/mo, 1,122 live rentals
• York — median £1,295/mo, 965 live rentals

West Midlands

• Birmingham — median £1,100/mo, 11,748 live rentals
• Coventry — median £950/mo, 3,091 live rentals
• Stoke-on-Trent — median £650/mo, 1,601 live rentals

East of England

• Cambridge — median £1,650/mo, 3,149 live rentals
• Luton — median £1,200/mo, 2,376 live rentals
• Peterborough — median £1,025/mo, 2,197 live rentals
• Norwich — median £1,200/mo, 2,120 live rentals
• Colchester — median £1,200/mo, 1,375 live rentals
• Watford — median £1,550/mo, 1,249 live rentals

South West

• Bristol — median £1,517/mo, 5,833 live rentals
• Bournemouth — median £1,275/mo, 2,894 live rentals
• Plymouth — median £775/mo, 1,828 live rentals
• Swindon — median £1,100/mo, 1,109 live rentals
• Bath — median £1,600/mo, 1,056 live rentals
• Cheltenham — median £1,350/mo, 951 live rentals

East Midlands

• Nottingham — median £980/mo, 9,075 live rentals
• Leicester — median £895/mo, 5,420 live rentals
• Derby — median £850/mo, 2,619 live rentals
• Lincoln — median £850/mo, 2,087 live rentals
• Northampton — median £1,000/mo, 1,836 live rentals

North East

• Newcastle — median £975/mo, 5,904 live rentals
• Sunderland — median £695/mo, 972 live rentals

Scotland

• Edinburgh — median £1,450/mo, 3,180 live rentals
• Glasgow — median £1,150/mo, 2,833 live rentals
• Aberdeen — median £733/mo, 2,047 live rentals
• Dundee — median £845/mo, 973 live rentals

Wales

• Cardiff — median £1,353/mo, 4,758 live rentals
• Swansea — median £925/mo, 2,087 live rentals

Methodology

Medians are asking rents for whole properties, from live listings merged and de-duplicated so each home counts once. City pages join official open data — ONS Price Index of Private Rents, ONS earnings, police.uk crime, VOA council-tax bands, Ofcom broadband and EPC certificates — with the source and reference month cited per figure.

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