Renting in Crewe
Median asking rent · all sizes · 460 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Crewe is £885 a month, from 460 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £625/moasking · 105 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £850/moasking · 110 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,000/moasking · 140 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,150/moasking · 103 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £542/moasking · 71 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 Crewe by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/crewe, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Crewe
Crewe currently has 531 rental listings on the property sites we track, 460 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Crewe is £885 a month, from 460 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 78 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 73% 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 £850 a month in CW2 (105 live listings) to £1,000 in CW5 (5 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Crewe (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 Crewe, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Crewe is £625 a month, 29% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 105 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Crewe is £850 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 110 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Crewe is £1,000 a month, 13% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 140 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Crewe is £1,150 a month, 30% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 103 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Crewe is £542 a month, from 71 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 Cheshire East is £992 a month, up 7.2% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). Cheshire East is the ONS area that covers Crewe. 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
+35%
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
22% of listings
57% of listings
19% of listings
2% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 56% of the 221 houses currently advertised in Crewe.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 299 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 Crewe, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/crewe, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Crewe
Live signal across 531 Crewe rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
69%
of 147 Crewe listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
66%
of 157 Crewe listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
78 homes came onto the Crewe rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
3 bed house
Hawksey Drive, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5
3 bed semi-detached house
3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Broad Street, CW1
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Mayfield Mews, CW1
3 bed semi-detached house
3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Seagull Close, CW1
2 bed bungalow
2 Bed Bungalow, Linden Drive, CW1
5 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Queen Street, CW1
4 bed terraced house
4 Bed Terraced House, Edleston Road, CW2
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed Terraced House, Edleston Road, CW2
6 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Samuel Street, CW1
3 bed terraced house
Sommerville Street, Crewe
3 bed terraced house
CW1
3 bed flat/apartment
73A Edleston Road, Crewe, CW2
1 bed room
Room 2, West Street, Crewe, CW1
3 bed semi-detached house
Seagull Close, Crewe, CW1
2 bed flat/apartment
Delamere Court, St Mary`s Street, Crewe, CW1
3 bed detached house
Boadicea Drive, Crewe, CW1
1 bed flat/apartment
Edleston Rd, Crewe
1 bed room
Queen Street, Crewe, CW1
2 bed flat/apartment
Carriage House, Dale Way
2 bed terraced house
Alton Street, Crewe, CW2
3 bed terraced house
Clifton Avenue, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2
1 bed house
Richard Street, Crewe, CW1
1 bed house
Richard Street, Crewe, CW1
3 bed semi-detached house
Higher Croft Drive, Crewe
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Crewe. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Crewe homes sit in Band B. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 188,880 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
B
most common band
Mean band
3.42
≈ Band C–D
Stock
189k
188,880 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
78% of Crewe premises can already get full-fibre and 84% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
78%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
84%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
97%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
444 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Cheshire East), July 2025, covering 189,260 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
46% of Crewe 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
46%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
54%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
155k
154,951 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Cheshire East. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
18 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Crewe centroid. The five closest:
Ruskin Community High School
Secondary · Community school · CW2 7JT
Brierley Primary School
Primary · Community school · CW1 2AZ
Westminster Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · CW2 7LJ
Cheshire Studio School
Secondary · Studio schools · CW1 2PZ
Crewe Engineering and Design UTC
Secondary · University technical college · CW1 2PZ
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Crewe 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), Crewe has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 28 of 28 postcode districts analysed, the median was 132 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Crewe is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Crewe’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 (69) · pop. ~17,000
Most common: Violent crime (32) · pop. ~18,000
Most common: Violent crime (13) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (26) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (6) · pop. ~6,000
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 Crewe is £885 a month, from 460 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Crewe is £625 a month, 29% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 105 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Crewe is £850 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 110 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Crewe is £1,000 a month, 13% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 140 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Crewe is £1,150 a month, 30% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 103 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Crewe is £542 a month, from 71 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 531 rental properties available in Crewe, with 78 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Crewe has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 132 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 Crewe is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across North West
How Crewe 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/crewe, updated 28 October 2026.
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