Renting in Basildon
Median asking rent · all sizes · 313 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Basildon is £1,450 a month, from 313 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,150/moasking · 99 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,400/moasking · 78 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,750/moasking · 79 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,950/moasking · 51 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £730/moasking · 73 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 Basildon by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/basildon, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Basildon
Basildon currently has 386 rental listings on the property sites we track, 313 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Basildon is £1,450 a month, from 313 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 65 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 46% 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 £1,350 a month in SS13 (53 live listings) to £1,600 in SS14 (43 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Basildon (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 Basildon, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Basildon is £1,150 a month, 21% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 99 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Basildon is £1,400 a month, 3% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 78 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Basildon is £1,750 a month, 21% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 79 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Basildon is £2,950 a month, 103% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 51 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Basildon is £730 a month, from 73 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 Basildon is £1,428 a month, up 4.8% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). 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
+4.8%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+29%
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
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in Basildon spend an estimated 50% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£34,133/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
50%
Expensive — half of local median pay before tax.
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. How we measure this
Property types
41% of listings
35% of listings
23% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 70% of the 114 houses currently advertised in Basildon.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 219 live listings in 4 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 Basildon, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/basildon, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Basildon
Live signal across 386 Basildon rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
77%
of 118 Basildon listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
78%
of 139 Basildon listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
65 homes came onto the Basildon rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Bardfield, Basildon SS16
3 bed property
Tangham Walk, Basildon SS14
3 bed property
Ballards Walk, Basildon SS15
1 bed property
Cherrydown East, Basildon SS16
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, Regent House, SS14
6 bed room
4 bed room
5 bed house
3 bed house
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, Regent House, SS14
6 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Beambridge Place, SS13
5 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Rickling, SS16
6 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Eastbrooks, SS13
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Cherrydown East, SS16
6 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Tudor Lodge, SS13
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, Broadway Chambers, SS13
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Broadway Chambers, SS13
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed Terraced House, Ballards Walk, SS15
2 bed flat/apartment
Broadway North, Basildon SS13
1 bed flat/apartment
Broadway North, Basildon SS13
3 bed terraced house
Long Riding Basildon SS14
3 bed terraced house
Tangham Walk, Basildon
4 bed semi-detached house
Clenshaw Path, Basildon
1 bed flat/apartment
Cherrydown East, Basildon, SS16
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Basildon homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 80,100 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.25
≈ Band C–D
Stock
80k
80,100 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
74% of Basildon premises can already get full-fibre and 92% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
74%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
92%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
472 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Basildon), July 2025, covering 79,977 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
49% of Basildon 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
49%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
51%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
61k
60,986 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Basildon. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
14 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Basildon centroid. The five closest:
St Anne Line Catholic Junior School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · SS15 5AF
St Anne Line Catholic Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · SS15 5AF
Ghyllgrove Primary School
Primary · Community school · SS14 2BG
Woodlands School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · SS16 5BA
Lee Chapel Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · SS16 5RU
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Basildon 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), Basildon has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 69 of 69 postcode districts analysed, the median was 253 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Basildon is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Basildon’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
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 (148) · pop. ~23,000
Most common: Violent crime (91) · pop. ~22,000
Most common: Violent crime (108) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (88) · pop. ~33,000
Most common: Violent crime (25) · pop. ~35,000
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 Basildon is £1,450 a month, from 313 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Basildon is £1,150 a month, 21% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 99 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Basildon is £1,400 a month, 3% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 78 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Basildon is £1,750 a month, 21% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 79 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Basildon is £2,950 a month, 103% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 51 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Basildon is £730 a month, from 73 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 386 rental properties available in Basildon, with 65 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Basildon has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 253 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 Basildon is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East of England
How Basildon compares with the other 20 places we track in East of England — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across East of England, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/basildon, updated 28 October 2026.
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