Renting in Chester
Median asking rent · all sizes · 582 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Chester before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Chester is £1,200 a month, from 582 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £885/moasking · 184 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,200/moasking · 137 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,395/moasking · 127 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,900/moasking · 110 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £600/moasking · 68 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 Chester by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/chester, updated 27 October 2026.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit Dwellio and link to this page. How we measure this
Free to sign up · no card needed · upgrade when you’re ready
Renting in Chester
Chester currently has 650 rental listings on the property sites we track, 582 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Chester is £1,200 a month, from 582 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 91 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 47% 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 £1,060 a month in CH1 (152 live listings) to £1,450 in CH99 (13 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Chester (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.
Dwellio watches Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders for Chester 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.
Found one you like? Agents in Chester shortlist from the first applicants who look ready to go, so have your documents to hand before you enquire — our free tenant CV and offer letter generator writes both from a few details.
Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Chester, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Chester is £885 a month, 26% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 184 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Chester is £1,200 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 137 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Chester is £1,395 a month, 16% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 127 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Chester is £1,900 a month, 58% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 110 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Chester is £600 a month, from 68 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
Free monthly digest
One email a month: what the median rent did, which postcodes moved, and how much came to market. Built from live listings across six UK property sites. No card, no account, unsubscribe anytime.
We’ll email you once to confirm. See our privacy policy.
Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in Chester is £1,000 a month, up 6.7% 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
+6.7%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+46%
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 Chester spend an estimated 37% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£32,391/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
37%
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
44% of listings
39% of listings
15% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 40% of the 183 houses currently advertised in Chester.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 415 live listings in 7 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 Chester, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/chester, updated 27 October 2026.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit Dwellio and link to this page. How we measure this
Features · Chester
Live signal across 650 Chester rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
79%
of 144 Chester listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
80%
of 200 Chester listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
91 homes came onto the Chester rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed property
Black Diamond Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1
1 bed flat/apartment
The Square, Seller Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1
2 bed flat/apartment
Thomas Brassey Close, Chester, Cheshire, CH2
2 bed flat/apartment
Wharf View, Chester, CH1
1 bed room
Cestria Quayside, Chester
1 bed room
Gladstone Road, Chester
1 bed room
Bouverie Street, Chester
1 bed room
Kingsway, Chester
1 bed room
Grange Road, Chester
1 bed room
Bouverie Street, Chester
1 bed room
West Lorne Street, Chester
1 bed room
West Lorne Street, Chester
1 bed room
Henshall Street, Chester
1 bed room
Garden Lane, Chester
1 bed room
Henshall Street, Chester
1 bed room
Walpole Street, Chester
2 bed house
Hoole Lane, Chester, CH2
2 bed flat/apartment
Wharf View, CH1
3 bed semi-detached house
Saltney, Chester, CH4
6 bed semi-detached house
Kilmorey Park, Chester, Cheshire, CH2
1 bed flat/apartment
Homedee House, Chester CH1
2 bed flat/apartment
The Square Seller Street, Chester CH1
1 bed room
Queens Avenue, Chester, CH1
2 bed flat/apartment
Newry Court, Chester, Cheshire, CH2
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Chester. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
How it works
Four steps between you and never missing a good one in Chester.
Pop in your budget, bed count and favourite corners of Chester. A minute, tops.
Six major sites, checked every couple of minutes. Yes, on Sundays too.
The moment a match appears, email arrives before most people open the app.
Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Chester homes sit in Band B. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 165,890 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
B
most common band
Mean band
3.09
≈ Band C–D
Stock
166k
165,890 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 Chester premises can already get full-fibre and 89% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
88%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
89%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
98%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
461 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Cheshire West and Chester), July 2025, covering 165,743 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
50% of Chester 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
50%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
51%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
133k
132,968 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Cheshire West and Chester. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
7 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Chester centroid. The five closest:
The Grosvenor Park Church of England Academy
Primary · Free schools · CH1 1QP
Queen's Park High School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · CH4 7AE
Chester International School
Secondary · Studio schools · CH4 7AE
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · CH1 4HG
The Catholic High School, Chester
Secondary · Academy converter · CH4 7HS
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Chester 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), Chester has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 54 of 54 postcode districts analysed, the median was 159 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Chester is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Chester’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 (116) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (154) · pop. ~5,000
Most common: Violent crime (152) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (70) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Violent crime (68) · pop. ~13,000
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.
Where we search
We watch 5 property sites for rentals in Chester.
Start getting alerts
Free to sign up — no card needed. We’ll email the moment a matching rental goes live in Chester.
Dwellio
Alerts that land before the rush.
Frequently asked
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Chester is £1,200 a month, from 582 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Chester is £885 a month, 26% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 184 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Chester is £1,200 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 137 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Chester is £1,395 a month, 16% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 127 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Chester is £1,900 a month, 58% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 110 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Chester is £600 a month, from 68 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 650 rental properties available in Chester, with 91 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Chester has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 159 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Chester is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across North West
How Chester compares with the other 24 places we track in North West — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
Every city, every region, one table: the UK rental index.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across North West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/chester, updated 28 October 2026.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit Dwellio and link to this page. How we measure this
Compare across the UK
See how Chester compares with the UK’s largest rental markets — median rents, area data and live alerts for each.
Renting guides
Guides on covering every portal and reaching new Chester listings first.
Best property alert tools in the UK
How the main rental-alert services compare on speed and portal coverage.
Read guideBest alternatives to Rightmove
The UK portals worth searching beyond Rightmove — and what each one adds.
Read guideRightmove vs Zoopla vs OnTheMarket
What each portal covers, where the gaps are, and how to stop missing listings.
Read guideFree to sign up. No card needed. Cancel anytime.
Start free