Renting in Crawley
Median asking rent · all sizes · 426 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Crawley before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Crawley is £1,425 a month, from 426 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,200/moasking · 145 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,500/moasking · 121 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,900/moasking · 59 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,425/moasking · 53 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £700/moasking · 110 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 Crawley by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/crawley, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Crawley
Crawley currently has 536 rental listings on the property sites we track, 426 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Crawley is £1,425 a month, from 426 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 84 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 34% 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 £1,275 a month in RH11 (115 live listings) to £1,700 in RH12 (29 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Crawley (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 Crawley, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Crawley is £1,200 a month, 16% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 145 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Crawley is £1,500 a month, 5% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 121 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Crawley is £1,900 a month, 33% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 59 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Crawley is £2,425 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Crawley is £700 a month, from 110 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 Crawley is £1,495 a month, up 3.2% 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
+3.2%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+33%
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 Crawley spend an estimated 52% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£34,225/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
52%
Expensive — half of local median pay before tax.
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
50% of listings
25% of listings
24% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Other house houses make up 45% of the 119 houses currently advertised in Crawley.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 308 live listings in 4 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 Crawley, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/crawley, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Crawley
Live signal across 536 Crawley rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
81%
of 135 Crawley listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
85%
of 161 Crawley listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
84 homes came onto the Crawley rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed flat/apartment
Bedivere Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH11
2 bed flat/apartment
3 bed room
3 bed room
2 bed flat/apartment
5 bed room
4 bed room
3 bed house
3 bed house
3 bed room
4 bed room
1 bed flat/apartment
Gatwick Road, Crawley, RH10
1 bed terraced house
Tilgate, Crawley, RH10
3 bed house
Ashdown Drive, Tilgate
3 bed semi-detached house
Heathfield, Crawley RH10
5 bed terraced house
Gales Drive, Crawley, RH10
1 bed flat/apartment
Broadwalk, Crawley, RH10
2 bed terraced house
Ferndown, Crawley, RH10
1 bed room
Sandpiper Close, Crawley, RH11
3 bed semi-detached house
Lismore Crescent, Crawley, RH11
1 bed flat/apartment
Longmere Road St. Georges Court, Crawley, RH10
2 bed flat/apartment
Grand Parade, High Street, RH10
1 bed house
Drake Road, Crawley, RH10
Studio flat/apartment
London Road, Crawley RH10
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Crawley. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Crawley homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 47,240 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.33
≈ Band C–D
Stock
47k
47,240 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
68% of Crawley premises can already get full-fibre and 95% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
68%
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 (Crawley), July 2025, covering 47,202 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
59% of Crawley 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
36k
36,030 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Crawley. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
14 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Crawley centroid. The five closest:
West Green Primary School
Primary · Community school · RH11 7EL
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, Crawley
Primary · Voluntary aided school · RH10 6HD
Northgate Primary School
Primary · Community school · RH10 8DX
Southgate Primary
Primary · Academy sponsor led · RH10 6DG
St Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, Crawley
Secondary · Voluntary aided school · RH11 8PG
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Crawley 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), Crawley has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 27 of 27 postcode districts analysed, the median was 130 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Crawley is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Crawley’s figures sit in line with the national picture. Safety varies by street as much as by city — every Dwellio alert includes the area’s data to help.
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 (183) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (97) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Violent crime (59) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (55) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Violent crime (89) · pop. ~9,000
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 Crawley is £1,425 a month, from 426 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Crawley is £1,200 a month, 16% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 145 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Crawley is £1,500 a month, 5% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 121 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Crawley is £1,900 a month, 33% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 59 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Crawley is £2,425 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Crawley is £700 a month, from 110 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 536 rental properties available in Crawley, with 84 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Crawley has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 130 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 Crawley is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across South East
How Crawley compares with the other 34 places we track in South East — 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 South East, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/crawley, updated 28 October 2026.
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