Renting in Bradford
Median asking rent · all sizes · 1,016 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Bradford before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Bradford is £775 a month, from 1,016 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £650/moasking · 334 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £775/moasking · 310 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,050/moasking · 238 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,385/moasking · 82 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £468/moasking · 44 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 Bradford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/bradford, updated 29 October 2026.
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Renting in Bradford
Bradford currently has 1,060 rental listings on the property sites we track, 1,016 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Bradford is £775 a month, from 1,016 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 175 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 45% 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 £650 a month in BD1 (198 live listings) to £1,100 in BD10 (29 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Bradford (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 Bradford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Bradford is £650 a month, 16% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 334 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Bradford is £775 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 310 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Bradford is £1,050 a month, 35% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 238 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Bradford is £1,385 a month, 79% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 82 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Bradford is £468 a month, from 44 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 Bradford is £739 a month, up 1.6% 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
+1.6%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+26%
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 Bradford 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
£28,424/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
52% of listings
43% of listings
5% of listings
0% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 39% of the 421 houses currently advertised in Bradford.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 794 live listings in 19 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 Bradford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/bradford, updated 29 October 2026.
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Features · Bradford
Live signal across 1,060 Bradford 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 277 Bradford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
77%
of 319 Bradford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
175 homes came onto the Bradford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Sunbridge Road, BD1
2 bed house
3 bed house
2 bed flat/apartment
3 bed house
3 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Moorland Grove, LS28
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, New Mill, BD17
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed Terraced House, Great Horton Road, BD7
3 bed house
4 bed house
2 bed house
1 bed flat/apartment
2 bed room
Room in a Shared Flat, Legrams Lane, BD7
1 bed detached house
1 Bed Detached House, Bolton Road, BD3
1 bed semi-detached house
1 Bed Semi-Detached House, Bolton Road, BD3
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, Cheapside Chambers, BD1
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Compton St, BD4
Studio flat/apartment
Cheapside Chambers, 43 Cheapside, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1
3 bed house
Monterey Drive, Allerton, Bradford
3 bed detached house
Bootham Park, Heaton, Bradford, BD9 6EG
3 bed semi-detached house
Carrwood Park, Bradford, BD4
2 bed terraced house
Hirst Wood Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Bradford. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Bradford homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 222,860 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.32
≈ Band B–C
Stock
223k
222,860 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
88% of Bradford premises can already get full-fibre and 95% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
88%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
95%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
481 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Bradford), July 2025, covering 213,003 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
32% of Bradford 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
32%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
68%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
232k
232,037 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Bradford. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
19 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Bradford centroid. The five closest:
New College Bradford
16 plus · Free schools 16 to 19 · BD5 0DX
Rainbow Primary Leadership Academy
Primary · Free schools · BD5 0HD
Dixons McMillan Academy
Secondary · Free schools · BD5 0JD
Dixons Trinity Academy
Secondary · Free schools · BD5 0BE
Dixons Music Primary
Primary · Free schools · BD5 0BE
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Bradford 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), Bradford has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 83 of 83 postcode districts analysed, the median was 264 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Bradford is Violent crime, accounting for 9% of all incidents.
Bradford’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 (239) · pop. ~17,000
Most common: Violent crime (301) · pop. ~20,000
Most common: Violent crime (197) · pop. ~18,000
Most common: Violent crime (136) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (122) · pop. ~17,000
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 Bradford is £775 a month, from 1,016 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Bradford is £650 a month, 16% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 334 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Bradford is £775 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 310 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Bradford is £1,050 a month, 35% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 238 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Bradford is £1,385 a month, 79% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 82 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Bradford is £468 a month, from 44 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 1,060 rental properties available in Bradford, with 175 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Bradford has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 264 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Bradford is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across Yorkshire and the Humber
How Bradford compares with the other 20 places we track in Yorkshire and the Humber — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across Yorkshire and the Humber, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/bradford, updated 29 October 2026.
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