Renting in Blackburn
Median asking rent · all sizes · 296 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Blackburn before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Blackburn is £850 a month, from 296 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £650/moasking · 40 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £795/moasking · 116 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £995/moasking · 103 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,450/moasking · 36 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £498/moasking · 65 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 Blackburn by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/blackburn, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Blackburn
Blackburn currently has 361 rental listings on the property sites we track, 296 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Blackburn is £850 a month, from 296 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 64 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 79% 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 BB6 (3 live listings) to £1,875 in BB5 (4 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Blackburn (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 Blackburn, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Blackburn is £650 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 40 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Blackburn is £795 a month, 6% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 116 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Blackburn is £995 a month, 17% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 103 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Blackburn is £1,450 a month, 71% 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 room in a shared house in Blackburn is £498 a month, from 65 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 Blackburn is £715 a month, up 3.8% 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
+3.8%
vs a year earlier
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. How we measure this
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in Blackburn spend an estimated 31% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£27,502/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
31%
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
16% of listings
62% of listings
19% of listings
3% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 47% of the 225 houses currently advertised in Blackburn.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 248 live listings in 5 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 Blackburn, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/blackburn, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Blackburn
Live signal across 361 Blackburn rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
84%
of 122 Blackburn listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
84%
of 128 Blackburn listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
64 homes came onto the Blackburn rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, St Huberts Road, BB6
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Alice St, BB3
3 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Russell Place, BB6
4 bed room
Room in a Shared House, New Lane, BB5
1 bed flat/apartment
Studio Flat, Stone Hill Drive, BB1
2 bed semi-detached house
2 Bed Semi-Detached House, Wasdale Avenue, BB1
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Livesey Branch Road, BB2
2 bed bungalow
2 Bed Bungalow, Alberta Close, BB2
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Audley Range, BB1
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed Terraced House, Revidge Road, BB2
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed End Terrace, Grafton St, BB2
1 bed semi-detached house
1 Bed Semi-Detached House, Derby St, BB1
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed End Terrace, Eldon Road, BB1
2 bed bungalow
East Park Avenue, Blackburn. Lancs. BB1 8DT
2 bed semi-detached house
Wasdale Avenue, Blackburn, BB1
3 bed detached house
Petrel Close, Blackburn, BB1
1 bed flat/apartment
Selous Road, Blackburn, BB2
2 bed terraced house
Sark Gardens, Blackburn, BB2
2 bed terraced house
Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2
2 bed bungalow
Whalley Old Road, Blackburn, BB1
2 bed terraced house
Boland Street, Blackburn, BB1
3 bed semi-detached house
at Nationwide, 31 Lancaster Road, Blackburn BB2
2 bed terraced house
Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn, BB2
3 bed semi-detached house
Quebec Road, Blackburn. Lancs. BB2 7DP
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Blackburn. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Blackburn homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 63,560 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
1.96
≈ Band A–B
Stock
64k
63,560 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
87% of Blackburn premises can already get full-fibre and 92% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
87%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
92%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
471 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Blackburn with Darwen), July 2025, covering 63,325 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
39% of Blackburn 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
39%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
61%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
62k
62,273 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Blackburn with Darwen. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
25 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Blackburn centroid. The five closest:
St Michael With St John CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · BB1 6LE
St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn
Primary · Voluntary aided school · BB2 1LQ
St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn
Primary · Voluntary aided school · BB1 5BN
Brunel Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · BB1 1ES
St Matthew's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · BB1 1DF
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Blackburn 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 (86) · pop. ~31,000
Most common: Violent crime (217) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (63) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (49) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (149) · pop. ~7,000
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 Blackburn is £850 a month, from 296 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Blackburn is £650 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 40 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Blackburn is £795 a month, 6% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 116 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Blackburn is £995 a month, 17% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 103 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Blackburn is £1,450 a month, 71% 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 room in a shared house in Blackburn is £498 a month, from 65 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 361 rental properties available in Blackburn, with 64 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across North West
How Blackburn 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/blackburn, updated 28 October 2026.
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