Renting in Barrow-in-Furness
Median asking rent · all sizes · 240 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Barrow-in-Furness is £755 a month, from 240 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £650/moasking · 53 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £795/moasking · 74 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £895/moasking · 36 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £693/moasking · 77 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £607/moasking · 36 listings · Oct 2026 |
Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated . Weekly prices normalised to monthly. Each figure counts the live listings behind it; rooms are per room.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent in Barrow-in-Furness by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/barrow-in-furness, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness currently has 276 rental listings on the property sites we track, 240 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Barrow-in-Furness is £755 a month, from 240 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 94 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 75% are houses and the rest are flats. How we measure this
Rents vary sharply by postcode. Median asking rents for homes of all sizes run from £750 a month in LA14 (83 live listings) to £945 in LA13 (15 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Barrow-in-Furness (Dwellio, October 2026). For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Barrow-in-Furness, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Barrow-in-Furness is £650 a month, 14% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Barrow-in-Furness is £795 a month, 5% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 74 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Barrow-in-Furness is £895 a month, 19% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 36 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Barrow-in-Furness is £693 a month, 8% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 77 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Barrow-in-Furness is £607 a month, from 36 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property. Each size needs at least 10 live listings. Studio figures are hidden for now: listings whose bedroom count we couldn’t read were being counted as studios. How we measure this
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Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in Westmorland and Furness is £819 a month, up 6.2% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). Westmorland and Furness is the ONS area that covers Barrow-in-Furness. The Office for National Statistics’ Price Index of Private Rents is the official series for rents being paid, including long-running tenancies; Dwellio’s figures above are asking rents.
Annual
+6.2%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+31%
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. How we measure this
Property types
21% of listings
62% of listings
17% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 71% of the 132 houses currently advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 103 live listings in 2 districts (October 2026). Districts with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental; rooms in shared houses are left out.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in Barrow-in-Furness, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/barrow-in-furness, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Barrow-in-Furness
Live signal across 276 Barrow-in-Furness rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
44%
of 91 Barrow-in-Furness listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
66%
of 96 Barrow-in-Furness listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
94 homes came onto the Barrow-in-Furness rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed house
5 bed room
5 bed room
3 bed house
2 bed house
1 bed room
5 bed room
2 bed house
2 bed flat/apartment
4 bed room
3 bed house
4 bed room
5 bed room
1 bed flat/apartment
Steamer Street, BARROW-IN-FURNESS LA14
3 bed terraced house
St. Luke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, LA13
5 bed terraced house
Nelson Street, Barrow-in-Furness
4 bed terraced house
Greengate Street, Barrow-in-Furness
5 bed terraced house
Ramsden Street, Barrow-in-Furness
5 bed terraced house
School Street, Barrow-in-Furness
6 bed terraced house
Ramsden Street, Barrow-in-Furness
3 bed terraced house
Sutherland Street, Barrow-in-Furness
6 bed terraced house
Manchester Street, Barrow-in-Furness
4 bed terraced house
Ancaster Street, Barrow-in-Furness
4 bed semi-detached house
Cameron Street, Barrow-in-Furness
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Barrow-in-Furness homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 117,060 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.95
≈ Band B–C
Stock
117k
117,060 properties
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
79% of Barrow-in-Furness premises can already get full-fibre and 79% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
79%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
79%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
96%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
425 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Westmorland and Furness), July 2025, covering 115,774 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
34% of Barrow-in-Furness 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
34%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
66%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
95k
94,678 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Westmorland and Furness. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
13 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Barrow-in-Furness centroid. The five closest:
St George's CofE School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · LA14 2JN
Ramsden Infant School
Primary · Community school · LA14 1AN
Greengate Junior School
Primary · Community school · LA14 1BG
Barrow Island Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · LA14 2SJ
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Barrow
Primary · Academy converter · LA14 2BA
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Barrow-in-Furness centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
Area safety
Based on the latest police data (October 2026), Barrow-in-Furness has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 12 of 12 postcode districts analysed, the median was 44 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Barrow-in-Furness is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Barrow-in-Furness ranks well for renters concerned about neighbourhood safety. Every Dwellio alert includes the area’s crime data so you can compare at a glance.
Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
Area breakdown
Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for August 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.
Most common: Violent crime (26) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (6) · pop. ~3,500
Most common: Criminal damage and arson (5) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (159) · pop. ~4,000
Most common: Violent crime (136) · pop. ~4,000
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.
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Barrow-in-Furness is £755 a month, from 240 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Barrow-in-Furness is £650 a month, 14% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Barrow-in-Furness is £795 a month, 5% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 74 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Barrow-in-Furness is £895 a month, 19% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 36 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Barrow-in-Furness is £693 a month, 8% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 77 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Barrow-in-Furness is £607 a month, from 36 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 276 rental properties available in Barrow-in-Furness, with 94 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Barrow-in-Furness has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 44 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Barrow-in-Furness is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across North West
How Barrow-in-Furness compares with the other 24 places we track in North West — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across North West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/barrow-in-furness, updated 28 October 2026.
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