Data as of July 2026 · computed by Flatscout from live cross-portal listings and official open data
Bolton is Greater Manchester's value ring: 20 minutes by train to Victoria with terraced rents far below the city, family semis in Horwich and Westhoughton near the M61, and a market where the Manchester commuter premium is only starting to price in.
Bolton currently has 543 live rental listings across the portals Flatscout tracks — Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom — with a median asking rent of £950 a month for a whole property. Rooms in shared homes start lower, and the by-postcode table below shows how much the same budget buys in different corners of the city.
Everything on this page is computed from listings Flatscout scrapes and de-duplicates around the clock, joined with official open data: the ONS Price Index of Private Rents for the long-run trend, ONS earnings data for affordability, police.uk street-level crime, VOA council-tax bands, Ofcom broadband coverage, and EPC certificates matched to the homes actually being advertised right now. Figures refresh continuously — the numbers below were last computed in July 2026.
If you're actively hunting, the data has one practical message: well-priced Bolton rentals go in hours, not days. Flatscout watches every portal and can alert you by email, WhatsApp or Telegram within minutes of a matching listing appearing — before most renters have refreshed the app.
| Bedrooms | Median rent | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | £625/mo | 14 |
| 1 bed | £750/mo | 104 |
| 2 bed | £895/mo | 207 |
| 3 bed | £1,200/mo | 111 |
| 4+ bed | £1,700/mo | 24 |
| Room in shared home | £563/mo | 83 |
| Outcode | Median rent | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| BL5 | £1,250/mo | 23 |
| BL7 | £1,100/mo | 25 |
| BL4 | £995/mo | 38 |
| BL3 | £950/mo | 69 |
| BL6 | £950/mo | 47 |
| BL1 | £940/mo | 179 |
| BL2 | £875/mo | 79 |
The ONS Price Index of Private Rents puts the average rent across ALL Bolton tenancies at £882/mo in June 2026 — up 9.7% on a year earlier. In January 2020 it was £576/mo. The ONS average sits below asking-rent medians because it includes existing tenancies, not just newly advertised homes.
Renting at the ONS average of £882/mo takes roughly 36% of the local median gross salary of £29,409 a year (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.
Of 543 live listings, 59% advertise a garden and 18% advertise parking. Portals under-report features, so treat these as a floor.
| Band | Listings |
|---|---|
| B | 3 |
| C | 7 |
| D | 9 |
| E | 1 |
| Band | Properties |
|---|---|
| Band A | 65,640 |
| Band B | 22,820 |
| Band C | 18,990 |
| Band D | 11,000 |
| Band E | 5,820 |
| Band F | 2,370 |
| Band G | 1,930 |
| Band H | 250 |
Residential premises coverage in Bolton: 88% full fibre (FTTP), 97% gigabit-capable, 100% superfast (30 Mbit/s+) (Ofcom Connected Nations).
No single portal has every home — Flatscout merges and de-duplicates them all, so each property is counted once.
The median asking rent in Bolton is £950 per month for a whole property, based on 543 live listings tracked by Flatscout across Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom (July 2026).
Flatscout is currently tracking 543 active rental listings in Bolton, with 87 new listings added in the last 7 days. Listings from every portal are merged and de-duplicated, so each home is counted once.
The median asking rent for a one-bedroom property in Bolton is £750 per month, while a room in a shared home has a median of £563 (July 2026).
Renting at the ONS average of £882/mo takes roughly 36% of the local median gross salary of £29,409 (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.