Renting in Cambridge

Average Rent in Cambridge: £1,600/mo

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Median asking rent across 6,400 live Cambridge 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

£1,600 /month

6,400 live listings · 5 portals

Median monthly rent in Cambridge by property size
SizeMedian rentListings
Studio£1,150/mo409
1 bed£1,250/mo2,078
2 bed£1,750/mo1,540
3 bed£1,950/mo679
4+ bed£2,750/mo921
Room (house share)£775/mo773

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

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Renting in Cambridge

What it costs to rent in Cambridge

Cambridge currently has 6,400 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £1,600 a month. 206 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 37% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is CB8 at around £950/mo, while CB3 sits nearer £1,850/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.

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Rent by property size

Average rent in Cambridge by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 6,400 live listings across 5 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Cambridge

£1,150/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Cambridge is £1,150 a month, 28% below the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 409 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Cambridge

£1,250/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Cambridge is £1,250 a month, 22% below the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 2,078 listings currently on the market.

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

£1,750/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Cambridge is £1,750 a month, 9% above the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 1,540 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Cambridge

£1,950/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Cambridge is £1,950 a month, 22% above the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 679 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Cambridge

£2,750/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Cambridge is £2,750 a month, 72% above the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 921 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Cambridge

£775/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Cambridge house share is £775 a month, 52% below the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 773 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 Cambridge rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Cambridge. Latest: £1,806/mo (Jul 26, +1.9% YoY).

Latest

£1,806

Jul 26

Annual

+1.9%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£1,390

Aug 21

Total change

+30%

since 2021

£1,400£1,600£1,800Aug 21Feb 24Jul 26

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 Cambridge pay goes on rent?

Renters in Cambridge spend an estimated 56% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).

Median rent

£1,806/mo

£21,672/yr

Median pay

£38,711/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

56%

Expensive — half of local median pay before tax.

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 Cambridge

Flats & apartments

2703

53% of listings

Houses

1605

31% of listings

Rooms

773

15% of listings

Bungalows

31

1% of listings

Property mix · houses

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

Terraced houses make up 41% of the 1,637 houses currently advertised in Cambridge.

  • Terraced
    41%674
  • Other house
    27%448
  • Semi-detached
    22%361
  • Detached
    8%123
  • Bungalow
    2%31

Rent by postcode

Where Cambridge rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 3,640 live listings in 9 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Cambridge

  1. 1CB3£1,850/mo292 rentals
  2. 2CB2£1,835/mo452 rentals
  3. 3CB5£1,725/mo484 rentals

Cheapest in Cambridge

  1. 1CB8£950/mo5 rentals
  2. 2CB24£1,350/mo24 rentals
  3. 3CB4£1,400/mo1055 rentals

Features · Cambridge

Garden, parking, and floor area in Cambridge

Live signal across 6,400 Cambridge rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

85%

of 1,661 Cambridge listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

86%

of 2,191 Cambridge listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Floor area · £/sqft

£2.59 /sqft

Median 694 sqft across 1,042 Cambridge listings that publish floor area.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Cambridge this week

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

206 new this weekUpdated today
  1. £1,950/moOpenRent

    3 bed house

    31View listing
  2. £1,450/moOpenRent

    2 bed flat/apartment

    21View listing
  3. £900/moOpenRent

    1 bed room

    11View listing
  4. £540/moOpenRent

    5 bed room

    53View listing
  5. £3,800/moOpenRent

    5 bed house

    55View listing
  6. £1,850/moOpenRent

    3 bed house

    31View listing
  7. £895/moOpenRent

    1 bed flat/apartment

    11View listing
  8. £550/moOpenRent

    2 bed room

    22View listing
  9. £870/moOpenRent

    3 bed room

    32View listing
  10. £1,495/moOpenRent

    2 bed flat/apartment

    21View listing
  11. £1,650/moOpenRent

    1 bed flat/apartment

    11View listing
  12. £3,800/moOpenRent

    6 bed house

    64View listing
  13. £1,650/moOpenRent

    2 bed flat/apartment

    21View listing
  14. £1,750/moOpenRent

    2 bed flat/apartment

    22View listing
  15. £975/moOpenRent

    3 bed room

    32View listing
  16. £2,250/moOpenRent

    2 bed house

    21View listing
  17. £1,300/moOpenRent

    1 bed room

    11View listing
  18. £1,650/moOpenRent

    1 bed flat/apartment

    11View listing
  19. £1,500/moOpenRent

    2 bed house

    21View listing
  20. £720/moOpenRent

    4 bed room

    43View listing
  21. £1,500/moOpenRent

    2 bed house

    21View listing
  22. £680/moOpenRent

    3 bed room

    31View listing
  23. £1,350/moOpenRent

    1 bed flat/apartment

    11View listing
  24. £680/moOpenRent

    3 bed room

    31View listing

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Cambridge

Most Cambridge homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 60,610 properties on the council-tax list.

Modal band

C

most common band

Mean band

3.50

≈ Band C–D

Stock

61k

60,610 properties

  • A
    7%4,420
  • B
    18%11,070
  • C
    34%20,780
  • D
    17%10,550
  • E
    10%6,050
  • F
    7%3,970
  • G
    5%3,270
  • H
    1%500

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 Cambridge

88% of Cambridge premises can already get full-fibre and 94% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.

Full fibre

88%

FTTP-ready premises

Gigabit

94%

≥1Gbit/s available

Superfast

99%

≥30Mbit/s available

Mean speed

481 Mbit/s

bucket-weighted estimate

  • Full fibre (FTTP)
    88%
  • Gigabit-capable
    94%
  • Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
    99%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Cambridge), July 2025, covering 58,108 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.

Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC

EPC ratings for Cambridge homes

59% of Cambridge 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

59%

good energy-efficiency stock

Bands D–G

41%

below the proposed 2030 floor

Certificates

53k

53,230 EPCs

  • A
    1%740
  • B
    21%11,313
  • C
    36%19,151
  • D
    30%16,234
  • E
    9%4,850
  • F
    1%753
  • G
    0%189

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

Schools · GIAS · DfE

State-funded schools near Cambridge

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

  1. 1

    Parkside Community College

    Secondary · Academy converter · CB1 1EH

    0.29 mi
  2. 2

    Park Street CofE Primary School

    Primary · Voluntary aided school · CB5 8AR

    0.32 mi
  3. 3

    St Alban's Catholic Primary School

    Primary · Academy converter · CB2 1EN

    0.52 mi
  4. 4

    St Matthew's Primary School

    Primary · Community school · CB1 2LD

    0.62 mi
  5. 5

    St Pauls CofE VA Primary School

    Primary · Voluntary aided school · CB2 1HJ

    0.64 mi

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

Area safety

Safety in Cambridge

Higher Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Cambridge has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 70 of 70 postcode districts analysed, the median was 285 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Cambridge is Violent crime, accounting for 2% of all incidents.

Crime overview

  • 285 crimes per area (median)
  • 70 of 70 postcode districts covered
  • Data: September 2026

Most reported

  • Violent crime
  • 2% of incidents

Cambridge’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 Cambridge

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.

Cherry Hinton has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Cambridge.

  • Chesterton

    Typical for city

    Most common: Violent crime (139) · pop. ~16,000

    32
    per 1k

  • Trumpington

    Safer area

    Most common: Violent crime (49) · pop. ~8,000

    18
    per 1k

  • Cherry Hinton

    Safer area

    Most common: Violent crime (74) · pop. ~16,000

    12
    per 1k

  • Newnham

    Higher crime

    Most common: Violent crime (60) · pop. ~6,000

    44
    per 1k

  • Arbury

    Typical for city

    Most common: Violent crime (112) · pop. ~10,000

    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.

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3406
OpenRent
1406
SpareRoom
773
OnTheMarket
616
Leaders
199

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Frequently asked

Renting in Cambridge — your questions answered

How much is rent in Cambridge?

The average (median) asking rent in Cambridge is £1,600 a month — a 1-bed is £1,250 and a 2-bed £1,750, based on 6,400 live listings across 5 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Cambridge?

The median asking rent for a studio in Cambridge is £1,150 a month, 28% below the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 409 studios currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Cambridge is £1,250 a month, 22% below the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 2,078 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Cambridge is £1,750 a month, 9% above the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 1,540 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Cambridge is £1,950 a month, 22% above the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 679 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Cambridge is £2,750 a month, 72% above the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 921 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Cambridge?

The median asking rent for a room in a Cambridge house share is £775 a month, 52% below the city-wide median of £1,600, based on 773 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Cambridge?

There are currently 6,400 rental properties available in Cambridge, with 206 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Cambridge safe for renters?

Cambridge has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 285 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 Cambridge?

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

Across East of England

Average rent across East of England

How Cambridge compares with the other 20 places we track in East of England — median asking rent from live listings, updated September 2026.

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