Average rent across the UK, city by city

Median rents, live listing counts and market data for 50 UK cities, computed from 132,748 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, 63,719 live rentals

South East

• Reading — median £1,400/mo, 1,754 live rentals
• Brighton — median £1,800/mo, 1,748 live rentals
• Southampton — median £1,150/mo, 1,572 live rentals
• Oxford — median £1,950/mo, 1,244 live rentals
• Milton Keynes — median £1,400/mo, 1,024 live rentals
• Slough — median £1,475/mo, 979 live rentals
• Guildford — median £1,800/mo, 609 live rentals
• Canterbury — median £1,250/mo, 569 live rentals
• Portsmouth — median £1,295/mo, 558 live rentals

North West

• Manchester — median £1,350/mo, 5,645 live rentals
• Liverpool — median £950/mo, 2,332 live rentals
• Salford — median £1,300/mo, 1,963 live rentals
• Preston — median £875/mo, 634 live rentals
• Bolton — median £950/mo, 543 live rentals

Yorkshire and the Humber

• Leeds — median £1,075/mo, 2,900 live rentals
• Sheffield — median £925/mo, 1,792 live rentals
• Hull — median £700/mo, 716 live rentals
• Doncaster — median £798/mo, 620 live rentals
• York — median £1,291/mo, 585 live rentals
• Huddersfield — median £750/mo, 551 live rentals
• Bradford — median £750/mo, 520 live rentals

West Midlands

• Birmingham — median £1,100/mo, 5,472 live rentals
• Coventry — median £1,000/mo, 1,724 live rentals
• Stoke-on-Trent — median £778/mo, 590 live rentals

East of England

• Cambridge — median £1,650/mo, 1,764 live rentals
• Luton — median £1,150/mo, 1,134 live rentals
• Norwich — median £1,200/mo, 1,076 live rentals
• Peterborough — median £1,000/mo, 1,030 live rentals
• Colchester — median £1,250/mo, 804 live rentals
• Watford — median £1,590/mo, 672 live rentals

South West

• Bristol — median £1,527/mo, 3,394 live rentals
• Bournemouth — median £1,250/mo, 1,070 live rentals
• Swindon — median £1,100/mo, 650 live rentals
• Plymouth — median £875/mo, 552 live rentals
• Cheltenham — median £1,300/mo, 533 live rentals
• Bath — median £1,625/mo, 516 live rentals

East Midlands

• Nottingham — median £953/mo, 3,583 live rentals
• Leicester — median £1,000/mo, 2,222 live rentals
• Derby — median £850/mo, 1,204 live rentals
• Northampton — median £1,095/mo, 998 live rentals
• Lincoln — median £900/mo, 714 live rentals

North East

• Newcastle — median £950/mo, 2,325 live rentals
• Sunderland — median £695/mo, 512 live rentals

Scotland

• Edinburgh — median £1,550/mo, 1,857 live rentals
• Glasgow — median £1,200/mo, 1,835 live rentals
• Aberdeen — median £700/mo, 978 live rentals
• Dundee — median £888/mo, 558 live rentals

Wales

• Cardiff — median £1,200/mo, 1,786 live rentals
• Swansea — median £900/mo, 618 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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