Renting in Barnsley

Average Rent in Barnsley: £775/mo

Rent in Barnsley before the rush.

Median asking rent across 2,161 live Barnsley listings on 5 portals from £400/mo, broken down by property size below — plus how rents have moved, where they are highest and lowest, and what landed on the market this week.

Median asking rent

£775 /month

2,161 live listings · 5 portals

Median monthly rent in Barnsley by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£585/mo	49
1 bed	£595/mo	371
2 bed	£750/mo	867
3 bed	£895/mo	586
4+ bed	£1,250/mo	159
Room (house share)	£500/mo	129

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 12 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Barnsley

What it costs to rent in Barnsley

Barnsley currently has 2,161 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £775 a month. 96 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 70% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is S74 at around £750/mo, while S63 sits nearer £895/mo. For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.

Dwellio watches Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders for Barnsley around the clock — so a new listing reaches your inbox before most renters have refreshed the app. Here’s how our rental alerts work. Looking further afield? You can browse rentals in every UK city.

Rent by property size

Average rent in Barnsley by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 2,161 live listings across 5 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Barnsley

£585/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Barnsley is £585 a month, 25% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 49 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Barnsley

£595/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Barnsley is £595 a month, 23% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 371 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Barnsley

£750/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Barnsley is £750 a month, 3% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 867 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Barnsley

£895/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Barnsley is £895 a month, 15% above the city-wide median of £775, based on 586 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Barnsley

£1,250/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Barnsley is £1,250 a month, 61% above the city-wide median of £775, based on 159 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Barnsley

£500/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Barnsley house share is £500 a month, 35% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 129 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property.

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Rent trend · ONS PIPR

How Barnsley rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Barnsley. Latest: £693/mo (Jul 26, +7.5% YoY).

Latest

£693

Jul 26

Annual

+7.5%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£502

Aug 21

Total change

+38%

since 2021

Source: Office for National Statistics · Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Updated monthly with a ~2-month lag. ONS uses Broad Rental Market Areas in Scotland — figures may aggregate beyond the city itself.

Affordability · ONS ASHE

What share of Barnsley pay goes on rent?

Renters in Barnsley spend an estimated 27% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).

Median rent

£693/mo

£8,316/yr

Median pay

£31,359/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

27%

Very affordable — well below the 30% rent-burden threshold.

0%30% threshold80%

Sources: Office for National Statistics — Price Index of Private Rents (latest month) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Table 8.7a (median annual gross pay, place of residence). The 30% line is the conventional rent-burden threshold above which housing costs are considered to crowd out other essentials.

Property types

What’s on offer in Barnsley

Flats & apartments

537

27% of listings

Houses

1276

65% of listings

Rooms

129

7% of listings

Bungalows

1% of listings

Property mix · houses

Houses to rent in Barnsley — what's on the market

Terraced houses make up 52% of the 1,299 houses currently advertised in Barnsley.

Terraced
52%675
Other house
25%325
Semi-detached
17%225
Detached
4%51
Bungalow
2%23

Rent by postcode

Where Barnsley rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 1,351 live listings in 7 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Barnsley

1S63£895/mo5 rentals
2S75£850/mo191 rentals
3S72£800/mo124 rentals

Cheapest in Barnsley

1S74£750/mo68 rentals
2S70£750/mo581 rentals
3S73£750/mo134 rentals

Features · Barnsley

Garden, parking, and floor area in Barnsley

Live signal across 2,161 Barnsley rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

80%

of 438 Barnsley listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

78%

of 473 Barnsley listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Barnsley this week

96 homes came onto the Barnsley rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.

96 new this weekUpdated today

Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Barnsley. Click through to the source portal to enquire.

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Barnsley

Most Barnsley homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 115,080 properties on the council-tax list.

Modal band

most common band

Mean band

1.92

≈ Band A–B

Stock

115k

115,080 properties

A
57%65,320
B
17%19,150
C
13%14,400
D
8%9,720
E
4%4,120
F
1%1,620
G
1%710
H
0%60

Source: HM Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax Stock of Properties (CTSOP1.0), extract dated 31 March 2024. Covers England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate band schemes and aren't included.

Broadband · Ofcom Connected Nations

Broadband coverage across Barnsley

83% of Barnsley premises can already get full-fibre and 89% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.

Full fibre

83%

FTTP-ready premises

Gigabit

89%

≥1Gbit/s available

Superfast

99%

≥30Mbit/s available

Mean speed

464 Mbit/s

bucket-weighted estimate

Full fibre (FTTP)
83%
Gigabit-capable
89%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
99%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Barnsley), July 2025, covering 114,636 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.

Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC

EPC ratings for Barnsley homes

42% of Barnsley homes hold a current EPC in bands A–C — the bands that meet the proposed 2030 minimum energy-efficiency standard for rented stock.

Bands A–C

42%

good energy-efficiency stock

Bands D–G

58%

below the proposed 2030 floor

Certificates

98k

98,239 EPCs

A
1%609
B
11%10,380
C
31%30,632
D
43%42,471
E
12%11,451
F
2%2,125
G
1%571

Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Barnsley. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.

Schools · GIAS · DfE

State-funded schools near Barnsley

11 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Barnsley centroid. The five closest:

1
Queens Road Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · S71 1AR
0.38 mi
2
Shawlands Primary School
Primary · Community school · S70 6JL
0.46 mi
3
Joseph Locke Primary School
Primary · Community school · S70 6JL
0.46 mi
4
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · S70 6JL
0.46 mi
5
Oakwell Rise Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · S70 1TS
0.55 mi

Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Barnsley centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.

Area safety

Safety in Barnsley

Higher Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Barnsley has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 70 of 70 postcode districts analysed, the median was 223 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Barnsley is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.

Crime overview

223 crimes per area (median)
70 of 70 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Anti-social behaviour
0% of incidents

Barnsley’s overall figures sit above the national median, but crime varies a lot by neighbourhood. Dwellio alerts include the area’s data so you can pick the right street.

Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.

Area breakdown

Safety by suburb in Barnsley

Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for July 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.

Penistone has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Barnsley.

Penistone
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (21) · pop. ~10,000
6.5
per 1k
Hoyland
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (46) · pop. ~15,000
11
per 1k
Wombwell
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (61) · pop. ~16,000
11
per 1k
Cudworth
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (28) · pop. ~10,000
6.9
per 1k
Royston
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (37) · pop. ~9,000
14
per 1k

Suburbs shown are representative populated areas; figures reflect street-level incidents within ~1 mile of each centre. Data from data.police.uk. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.

Where we search

Barnsley listings by portal

We watch 5 property sites for rentals in Barnsley.

Rightmove

970

OnTheMarket

590

OpenRent

401

SpareRoom

129

Leaders

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Frequently asked

Renting in Barnsley — your questions answered

How much is rent in Barnsley?

The average (median) asking rent in Barnsley is £775 a month — a 1-bed is £595 and a 2-bed £750, based on 2,161 live listings across 5 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Barnsley?

The median asking rent for a studio in Barnsley is £585 a month, 25% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 49 studios currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 1-bed flat in Barnsley?

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Barnsley is £595 a month, 23% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 371 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Barnsley?

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Barnsley is £750 a month, 3% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 867 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 3-bed house in Barnsley?

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Barnsley is £895 a month, 15% above the city-wide median of £775, based on 586 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 4-bed house in Barnsley?

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Barnsley is £1,250 a month, 61% above the city-wide median of £775, based on 159 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Barnsley?

The median asking rent for a room in a Barnsley house share is £500 a month, 35% below the city-wide median of £775, based on 129 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Barnsley?

There are currently 2,161 rental properties available in Barnsley, with 96 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Barnsley safe for renters?

Barnsley has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 223 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Barnsley?

The most commonly reported crime category in Barnsley is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

Across Yorkshire and the Humber

Average rent across Yorkshire and the Humber

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