Renting in Blackpool

Average Rent in Blackpool: £710/mo

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Median asking rent across 1,780 live Blackpool 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

£710 /month

1,780 live listings · 5 portals

Median monthly rent in Blackpool by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£450/mo	62
1 bed	£550/mo	551
2 bed	£750/mo	464
3 bed	£950/mo	344
4+ bed	£1,150/mo	124
Room (house share)	£535/mo	235

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 13 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Blackpool

What it costs to rent in Blackpool

Blackpool currently has 1,780 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £710 a month. 94 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 39% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is FY1 at around £650/mo, while FY5 sits nearer £875/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 Blackpool 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 Blackpool by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 1,780 live listings across 5 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Blackpool

£450/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Blackpool is £450 a month, 37% below the city-wide median of £710, based on 62 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Blackpool

£550/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Blackpool is £550 a month, 23% below the city-wide median of £710, based on 551 listings currently on the market.

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

£750/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Blackpool is £750 a month, 6% above the city-wide median of £710, based on 464 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Blackpool

£950/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Blackpool is £950 a month, 34% above the city-wide median of £710, based on 344 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Blackpool

£1,150/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Blackpool is £1,150 a month, 62% above the city-wide median of £710, based on 124 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Blackpool

£535/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Blackpool house share is £535 a month, 25% below the city-wide median of £710, based on 235 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 Blackpool rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Blackpool. Latest: £714/mo (Jul 26, +6.8% YoY).

Latest

£714

Jul 26

Annual

+6.8%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£554

Aug 21

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.

Affordability · ONS ASHE

What share of Blackpool pay goes on rent?

Renters in Blackpool 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 rent

£714/mo

£8,568/yr

Median pay

£27,979/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

31%

Affordable for most renters.

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 Blackpool

Flats & apartments

823

51% of listings

Houses

532

33% of listings

Rooms

235

15% of listings

Bungalows

1% of listings

Property mix · houses

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

Terraced houses make up 54% of the 547 houses currently advertised in Blackpool.

Terraced
54%294
Semi-detached
24%134
Other house
17%92
Bungalow
3%14
Detached
2%13

Rent by postcode

Where Blackpool rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 1,118 live listings in 6 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Blackpool

1FY5£875/mo19 rentals
2FY8£850/mo9 rentals
3FY3£785/mo147 rentals

Cheapest in Blackpool

1FY1£650/mo524 rentals
2FY2£725/mo146 rentals
3FY4£750/mo243 rentals

Features · Blackpool

Garden, parking, and floor area in Blackpool

Live signal across 1,780 Blackpool rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

63%

of 418 Blackpool listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

67%

of 456 Blackpool listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Blackpool this week

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

94 new this weekUpdated today

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Blackpool

Most Blackpool homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 72,500 properties on the council-tax list.

Modal band

most common band

Mean band

1.98

≈ Band A–B

Stock

73k

72,500 properties

A
44%32,100
B
29%21,280
C
16%11,470
D
7%4,850
E
3%1,950
F
1%580
G
0%250
H
0%30

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 Blackpool

61% of Blackpool premises can already get full-fibre and 91% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.

Full fibre

61%

FTTP-ready premises

Gigabit

91%

≥1Gbit/s available

Superfast

99%

≥30Mbit/s available

Mean speed

469 Mbit/s

bucket-weighted estimate

Full fibre (FTTP)
61%
Gigabit-capable
91%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
99%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Blackpool), July 2025, covering 73,171 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.

Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC

EPC ratings for Blackpool homes

28% of Blackpool 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

28%

good energy-efficiency stock

Bands D–G

72%

below the proposed 2030 floor

Certificates

78k

77,858 EPCs

A
0%196
B
3%2,188
C
25%19,482
D
44%34,242
E
20%15,794
F
6%4,425
G
2%1,531

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

Schools · GIAS · DfE

State-funded schools near Blackpool

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

1
St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · FY3 8BT
0.11 mi
2
Devonshire Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · FY3 8AF
0.32 mi
3
Blackpool St John's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · FY1 3NX
0.46 mi
4
Woodlands School
Not applicable · Community special school · FY3 9HF
0.48 mi
5
Park Community Academy
Not applicable · Academy special converter · FY3 9HF
0.48 mi

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

Area safety

Safety in Blackpool

Higher Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Blackpool has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 15 of 15 postcode districts analysed, the median was 180 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Blackpool is Violent crime, accounting for 40% of all incidents.

Crime overview

180 crimes per area (median)
15 of 15 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Violent crime
40% of incidents

Blackpool’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 Blackpool

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.

Bispham has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Blackpool.

Bispham
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (82) · pop. ~13,000
14
per 1k
Marton
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (126) · pop. ~11,000
29
per 1k
Stanley Park
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (206) · pop. ~7,000
67
per 1k
Layton
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (259) · pop. ~12,000
47
per 1k
South Shore
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (183) · pop. ~14,000
35
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

Blackpool listings by portal

We watch 5 property sites for rentals in Blackpool.

Rightmove

754

OpenRent

446

OnTheMarket

316

SpareRoom

235

Leaders

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Frequently asked

Renting in Blackpool — your questions answered

How much is rent in Blackpool?

The average (median) asking rent in Blackpool is £710 a month — a 1-bed is £550 and a 2-bed £750, based on 1,780 live listings across 5 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Blackpool?

The median asking rent for a studio in Blackpool is £450 a month, 37% below the city-wide median of £710, based on 62 studios currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Blackpool is £550 a month, 23% below the city-wide median of £710, based on 551 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Blackpool is £750 a month, 6% above the city-wide median of £710, based on 464 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Blackpool is £950 a month, 34% above the city-wide median of £710, based on 344 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Blackpool is £1,150 a month, 62% above the city-wide median of £710, based on 124 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Blackpool?

The median asking rent for a room in a Blackpool house share is £535 a month, 25% below the city-wide median of £710, based on 235 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Blackpool?

There are currently 1,780 rental properties available in Blackpool, with 94 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Blackpool safe for renters?

Blackpool has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 180 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Blackpool?

The most commonly reported crime category in Blackpool is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

Across North West

Average rent across North West

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