Data as of July 2026 · computed by Flatscout from live cross-portal listings and official open data
Stoke-on-Trent's six towns make it a polycentric market with some of England's cheapest terraces: Hanley is the de-facto centre, Trentham the premium pocket, and £500-a-month whole houses still exist here — which is why investor landlords watch the Potteries closely.
Stoke-on-Trent currently has 590 live rental listings across the portals Flatscout tracks — Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom — with a median asking rent of £778 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 | £713/mo | 14 |
| 1 bed | £600/mo | 97 |
| 2 bed | £750/mo | 184 |
| 3 bed | £975/mo | 111 |
| 4+ bed | £498/mo | 60 |
| Room in shared home | £500/mo | 124 |
| Outcode | Median rent | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| ST9 | £1,248/mo | 4 |
| ST12 | £1,023/mo | 4 |
| ST8 | £945/mo | 8 |
| ST7 | £900/mo | 15 |
| ST2 | £875/mo | 26 |
| ST11 | £850/mo | 7 |
| ST3 | £850/mo | 50 |
| ST10 | £795/mo | 19 |
| ST1 | £750/mo | 66 |
| ST6 | £750/mo | 91 |
| ST4 | £725/mo | 176 |
The ONS Price Index of Private Rents puts the average rent across ALL Stoke-on-Trent tenancies at £707/mo in June 2026 — up 4.8% on a year earlier. In January 2020 it was £502/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 £707/mo takes roughly 29% of the local median gross salary of £29,041 a year (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.
Of 590 live listings, 55% advertise a garden and 19% advertise parking. Portals under-report features, so treat these as a floor.
| Band | Listings |
|---|---|
| B | 1 |
| C | 4 |
| D | 23 |
| E | 5 |
| Band | Properties |
|---|---|
| Band A | 70,450 |
| Band B | 25,560 |
| Band C | 15,870 |
| Band D | 5,100 |
| Band E | 1,970 |
| Band F | 570 |
| Band G | 210 |
| Band H | 40 |
Residential premises coverage in Stoke-on-Trent: 90% full fibre (FTTP), 96% gigabit-capable, 99% superfast (30 Mbit/s+) (Ofcom Connected Nations).
police.uk street-level data for May 2026: median 102 reported incidents per postcode district across 12 districts around the busiest rental postcodes. The most common category city-wide is violence and sexual offences (35% of reports).
| Area | Reports / 1,000 people | Most common category |
|---|---|---|
| Burslem | 25.1 | violence and sexual offences |
| Fenton | 18.5 | violence and sexual offences |
| Hanley | 44.4 | violence and sexual offences |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 11.6 | violence and sexual offences |
| Trentham | 4.2 | violence and sexual offences |
No single portal has every home — Flatscout merges and de-duplicates them all, so each property is counted once.
The median asking rent in Stoke-on-Trent is £778 per month for a whole property, based on 590 live listings tracked by Flatscout across Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom (July 2026).
Flatscout is currently tracking 590 active rental listings in Stoke-on-Trent, with 100 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 Stoke-on-Trent is £600 per month, while a room in a shared home has a median of £500 (July 2026).
Across 12 postcode districts analysed, the median is 102 reported crimes per district per month, and the most common category is violence and sexual offences. Crime varies a lot street by street — data from data.police.uk (May 2026).
Renting at the ONS average of £707/mo takes roughly 29% of the local median gross salary of £29,041 (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.
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