Renting in Chesterfield

Average Rent in Chesterfield: £825/mo

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Median asking rent across 1,666 live Chesterfield 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

£825 /month

1,666 live listings · 5 portals

Median monthly rent in Chesterfield by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£741/mo	76
1 bed	£700/mo	469
2 bed	£825/mo	660
3 bed	£1,050/mo	337
4+ bed	£1,500/mo	102
Room (house share)	£650/mo	22

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 12 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Chesterfield

What it costs to rent in Chesterfield

Chesterfield currently has 1,666 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £825 a month. 79 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 52% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is S35 at around £700/mo, while NG7 sits nearer £1,417/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 Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 1,666 live listings across 5 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Chesterfield

£741/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Chesterfield is £741 a month, 10% below the city-wide median of £825, based on 76 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Chesterfield

£700/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Chesterfield is £700 a month, 15% below the city-wide median of £825, based on 469 listings currently on the market.

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

£825/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Chesterfield is £825 a month, in line with the city-wide median of £825, based on 660 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Chesterfield

£1,050/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Chesterfield is £1,050 a month, 27% above the city-wide median of £825, based on 337 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Chesterfield

£1,500/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Chesterfield is £1,500 a month, 82% above the city-wide median of £825, based on 102 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Chesterfield

£650/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Chesterfield house share is £650 a month, 21% below the city-wide median of £825, based on 22 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 Chesterfield rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Chesterfield. Latest: £754/mo (Jul 26, +2.4% YoY).

Latest

£754

Jul 26

Annual

+2.4%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£585

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 Chesterfield pay goes on rent?

Renters in Chesterfield spend an estimated 30% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).

Median rent

£754/mo

£9,048/yr

Median pay

£30,621/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

30%

Very affordable — well below the 30% rent-burden threshold.

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 Chesterfield

Flats & apartments

451

46% of listings

Houses

492

50% of listings

Rooms

2% of listings

Bungalows

3% of listings

Property mix · houses

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

Terraced houses make up 40% of the 518 houses currently advertised in Chesterfield.

Terraced
40%205
Semi-detached
31%161
Other house
19%100
Detached
5%26
Bungalow
5%26

Rent by postcode

Where Chesterfield rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 1,329 live listings in 37 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Chesterfield

1NG7£1,417/mo6 rentals
2S17£1,413/mo6 rentals
3S11£1,200/mo19 rentals

Cheapest in Chesterfield

1S35£700/mo3 rentals
2S49£750/mo66 rentals
3NG18£750/mo18 rentals

Features · Chesterfield

Garden, parking, and floor area in Chesterfield

Live signal across 1,666 Chesterfield rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

87%

of 246 Chesterfield listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

85%

of 360 Chesterfield listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Chesterfield this week

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

79 new this weekUpdated today

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Chesterfield

Most Chesterfield homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 51,050 properties on the council-tax list.

Modal band

most common band

Mean band

1.95

≈ Band A–B

Stock

51k

51,050 properties

A
53%27,010
B
21%10,570
C
13%6,470
D
8%4,030
E
4%2,110
F
1%620
G
0%220
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 Chesterfield

90% of Chesterfield premises can already get full-fibre and 93% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.

Full fibre

90%

FTTP-ready premises

Gigabit

93%

≥1Gbit/s available

Superfast

100%

≥30Mbit/s available

Mean speed

476 Mbit/s

bucket-weighted estimate

Full fibre (FTTP)
90%
Gigabit-capable
93%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
100%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Chesterfield), July 2025, covering 51,102 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.

Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC

EPC ratings for Chesterfield homes

42% of Chesterfield 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

42%

good energy-efficiency stock

Bands D–G

58%

below the proposed 2030 floor

Certificates

42k

41,598 EPCs

A
1%242
B
9%3,549
C
33%13,589
D
44%18,497
E
11%4,744
F
2%775
G
0%202

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

Schools · GIAS · DfE

State-funded schools near Chesterfield

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

1
St Mary's Catholic Primary
Primary · Voluntary aided school · S40 4ST
0.35 mi
2
Abercrombie Primary School
Primary · Community school · S41 7QE
0.46 mi
3
Brampton Primary School
Primary · Community school · S40 1DD
0.59 mi
4
Parkside Community School
Secondary · Academy converter · S40 2NS
0.61 mi
5
William Rhodes Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · S40 2NR
0.65 mi

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

Area safety

Safety in Chesterfield

Higher Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Chesterfield has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 97 of 97 postcode districts analysed, the median was 289 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Chesterfield is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.

Crime overview

289 crimes per area (median)
97 of 97 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Anti-social behaviour
0% of incidents

Chesterfield’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 Chesterfield

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.

Staveley has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Chesterfield.

Brampton
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (136) · pop. ~8,000
41
per 1k
Hasland
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (124) · pop. ~9,000
41
per 1k
Whittington
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (39) · pop. ~12,000
5.7
per 1k
Staveley
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (41) · pop. ~18,000
4.7
per 1k
Walton
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (57) · pop. ~6,000
21
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

Chesterfield listings by portal

We watch 5 property sites for rentals in Chesterfield.

PrimeLocation

556

Rightmove

514

OnTheMarket

400

OpenRent

174

SpareRoom

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Frequently asked

Renting in Chesterfield — your questions answered

How much is rent in Chesterfield?

The average (median) asking rent in Chesterfield is £825 a month — a 1-bed is £700 and a 2-bed £825, based on 1,666 live listings across 5 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Chesterfield?

The median asking rent for a studio in Chesterfield is £741 a month, 10% below the city-wide median of £825, based on 76 studios currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Chesterfield is £700 a month, 15% below the city-wide median of £825, based on 469 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Chesterfield is £825 a month, in line with the city-wide median of £825, based on 660 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Chesterfield is £1,050 a month, 27% above the city-wide median of £825, based on 337 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Chesterfield is £1,500 a month, 82% above the city-wide median of £825, based on 102 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Chesterfield?

The median asking rent for a room in a Chesterfield house share is £650 a month, 21% below the city-wide median of £825, based on 22 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Chesterfield?

There are currently 1,666 rental properties available in Chesterfield, with 79 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Chesterfield safe for renters?

Chesterfield has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 289 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Chesterfield?

The most commonly reported crime category in Chesterfield is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

Across East Midlands

Average rent across East Midlands

How Chesterfield compares with the other 14 places we track in East Midlands — median asking rent from live listings, updated September 2026.

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