Renting in Bedford
Median asking rent · all sizes · 582 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Bedford is £1,200 a month, from 582 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £900/moasking · 207 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,200/moasking · 175 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,475/moasking · 116 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,400/moasking · 64 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £600/moasking · 92 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 Bedford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/bedford, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Bedford
Bedford currently has 674 rental listings on the property sites we track, 582 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Bedford is £1,200 a month, from 582 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 138 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 38% 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 £1,050 a month in MK40 (273 live listings) to £1,450 in MK41 (68 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Bedford (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 Bedford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Bedford is £900 a month, 25% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 207 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Bedford is £1,200 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 175 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Bedford is £1,475 a month, 23% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 116 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Bedford is £2,400 a month, 100% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 64 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Bedford is £600 a month, from 92 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 Bedford is £1,177 a month, up 2.5% 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
+2.5%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+33%
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 Bedford spend an estimated 39% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£35,987/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
39%
Affordable for most renters.
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
51% of listings
32% of listings
16% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 37% of the 187 houses currently advertised in Bedford.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 469 live listings in 3 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 Bedford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/bedford, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Bedford
Live signal across 674 Bedford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
65%
of 155 Bedford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
81%
of 209 Bedford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
138 homes came onto the Bedford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed flat/apartment
Springfield Centre, Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
2 bed flat/apartment
Rowan Road, Houghton Conquest, Bedford, MK45
3 bed house
Farrer Street, Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
4 bed house
Goldington Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40
1 bed house
Beatrice Street, Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
1 bed flat/apartment
Sovereigns Quay, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40
1 bed flat/apartment
Goldington Green, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41
1 bed flat/apartment
Linclare Place, Eaton Ford, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19
2 bed bungalow
Chantry Avenue, Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
4 bed property
Shorts Avenue, Shortstown, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
4 bed bungalow
The Bury, Pavenham, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK43
1 bed flat/apartment
Palgrave Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
2 bed flat/apartment
Abbey Chase, Abbey Fields, Bedford, MK42
1 bed flat/apartment
High Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40
5 bed property
Miller Road, Bedford MK42
3 bed property
Uplands, Bedford MK41
2 bed property
Abbey Chase, Abbey Fields MK42
2 bed property
College Street, Kempston, Bedford MK42
1 bed property
Palgrave Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire MK42
1 bed property
St. Peters Street, Bedford MK40
2 bed property
Bishopstone House, Bedford MK40
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Prebend Way, MK40
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Plough House, MK42
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Kimbolton Road, MK40
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Bedford homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 79,820 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.28
≈ Band C–D
Stock
80k
79,820 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
70% of Bedford premises can already get full-fibre and 86% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
70%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
86%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
454 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Bedford), July 2025, covering 80,044 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
55% of Bedford 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
55%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
45%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
69k
69,363 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Bedford. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
12 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Bedford centroid. The five closest:
Priory Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · MK40 1JD
Bedford Free School
Secondary · Free schools · MK42 9AD
Livingstone Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · MK41 7LG
Castle Newnham School
Primary · Academy converter · MK40 3EP
Peter Pan Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · MK42 9DR
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Bedford centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
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 (57) · pop. ~20,000
Most common: Violent crime (192) · pop. ~7,000
Most common: Violent crime (34) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (59) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Shoplifting (75) · pop. ~3,000
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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Frequently asked
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Bedford is £1,200 a month, from 582 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Bedford is £900 a month, 25% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 207 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Bedford is £1,200 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 175 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Bedford is £1,475 a month, 23% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 116 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Bedford is £2,400 a month, 100% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 64 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Bedford is £600 a month, from 92 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 674 rental properties available in Bedford, with 138 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across East of England
How Bedford 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/bedford, updated 28 October 2026.
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