Renting in Carlisle
Median asking rent · all sizes · 175 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Carlisle before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Carlisle is £815 a month, from 175 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £550/moasking · 39 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £800/moasking · 64 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £963/moasking · 42 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £815/moasking · 27 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £565/moasking · 15 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 Carlisle by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/carlisle, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Carlisle
Carlisle currently has 190 rental listings on the property sites we track, 175 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Carlisle is £815 a month, from 175 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 63 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 71% 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 CA1 (46 live listings) to £973 in CA3 (20 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Carlisle (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 Carlisle, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Carlisle is £550 a month, 33% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 39 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Carlisle is £800 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 64 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Carlisle is £963 a month, 18% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 42 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Carlisle is £815 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 27 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Carlisle is £565 a month, from 15 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 Cumberland is £687 a month, up 7.2% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). Cumberland is the ONS area that covers Carlisle. 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
+7.2%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+37%
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
Property types
25% of listings
61% of listings
12% of listings
2% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 57% of the 80 houses currently advertised in Carlisle.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 116 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 Carlisle, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/carlisle, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Carlisle
Live signal across 190 Carlisle rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
83%
of 60 Carlisle listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
69%
of 67 Carlisle listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
63 homes came onto the Carlisle rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Flower Street, Carlisle CA1
2 bed property
Graham Street, Denton Holme, Carlisle CA2
3 bed property
Oswald Street, Carlisle CA1
3 bed semi-detached house
3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Eden Park Crescent, CA1
4 bed terraced house
4 Bed Terraced House, Howe St, CA1
3 bed room
1 bed room
1 bed room
50 Aglionby Street, Carlisle
3 bed terraced house
Petteril Terrace, Carlisle CA1
3 bed semi-detached house
The Green, Houghton, Carlisle, CA3
4 bed detached house
The Abbey, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TZ
2 bed terraced house
7 Collingwood Street, Carlisle, CA2
3 bed flat/apartment
Bank Street, Carlisle, CA3
2 bed flat/apartment
Denton Mill Close, Cumbria CA2
2 bed detached house
Cromwell Crescent, Carlisle
3 bed semi-detached house
Helvellyn Rise, Carlisle, CA2
2 bed terraced house
Blunt Street, Carlisle
1 bed flat/apartment
Botcherby Hall, Banks Lane, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1 2UD, England
2 bed flat/apartment
Chatsworth Square, Carlisle, CA1
1 bed terraced house
Port Road, Carlisle
3 bed terraced house
Petteril Terrace, Cumbria CA1
2 bed flat/apartment
Miles Mcinnes Court, Carlisle
3 bed semi-detached house
Nunnery Close, Carlisle
2 bed terraced house
Colville Terrace, Carlisle
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Carlisle. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Carlisle homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 137,640 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.21
≈ Band B–C
Stock
138k
137,640 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
73% of Carlisle premises can already get full-fibre and 75% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
73%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
75%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
97%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
411 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Cumberland), July 2025, covering 136,922 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
38% of Carlisle 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
38%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
62%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
107k
107,294 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Cumberland. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
8 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Carlisle centroid. The five closest:
Trinity School
Secondary · Academy converter · CA1 1JB
Richard Rose Central Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · CA1 1LY
Brook Street Primary School
Primary · Community school · CA1 2JB
Norman Street Primary School
Primary · Community school · CA1 2BQ
Robert Ferguson Primary School
Primary · Community school · CA2 5LA
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Carlisle 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 (222) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (140) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (152) · pop. ~5,000
Most common: Violent crime (192) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (111) · pop. ~11,000
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 Carlisle is £815 a month, from 175 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Carlisle is £550 a month, 33% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 39 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Carlisle is £800 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 64 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Carlisle is £963 a month, 18% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 42 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Carlisle is £815 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 27 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Carlisle is £565 a month, from 15 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 190 rental properties available in Carlisle, with 63 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across North West
How Carlisle 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/carlisle, updated 28 October 2026.
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