Renting in Derby

Average Rent in Derby: £850/mo

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Median asking rent across 7,067 live Derby listings on 6 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

£850 /month

7,067 live listings · 6 portals

Median monthly rent in Derby by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£725/mo	754
1 bed	£695/mo	2,475
2 bed	£910/mo	1,516
3 bed	£1,150/mo	917
4+ bed	£1,495/mo	895
Room (house share)	£575/mo	510

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 13 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Derby

What it costs to rent in Derby

Derby currently has 7,067 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £850 a month. 263 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 38% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is DE14 at around £713/mo, while DE73 sits nearer £1,200/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 Derby 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 Derby by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 7,067 live listings across 6 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Derby

£725/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Derby is £725 a month, 15% below the city-wide median of £850, based on 754 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Derby

£695/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Derby is £695 a month, 18% below the city-wide median of £850, based on 2,475 listings currently on the market.

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

£910/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Derby is £910 a month, 7% above the city-wide median of £850, based on 1,516 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Derby

£1,150/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Derby is £1,150 a month, 35% above the city-wide median of £850, based on 917 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Derby

£1,495/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Derby is £1,495 a month, 76% above the city-wide median of £850, based on 895 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Derby

£575/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Derby house share is £575 a month, 32% below the city-wide median of £850, based on 510 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 Derby rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Derby. Latest: £857/mo (Jul 26, +2.4% YoY).

Latest

£857

Jul 26

Annual

+2.4%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£649

Aug 21

Total change

+32%

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 Derby pay goes on rent?

Renters in Derby spend an estimated 34% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).

Median rent

£857/mo

£10,284/yr

Median pay

£30,467/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

34%

Affordable for most renters.

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 Derby

Flats & apartments

2910

55% of listings

Houses

1797

34% of listings

Rooms

510

10% of listings

Bungalows

1% of listings

Property mix · houses

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

Terraced houses make up 40% of the 1,824 houses currently advertised in Derby.

Terraced
40%723
Other house
24%441
Semi-detached
24%435
Detached
11%198
Bungalow
1%27

Rent by postcode

Where Derby rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 4,386 live listings in 11 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Derby

1DE73£1,200/mo66 rentals
2DE3£1,200/mo119 rentals
3DE99£900/mo190 rentals

Cheapest in Derby

1DE14£713/mo4 rentals
2DE11£750/mo3 rentals
3DE24£800/mo515 rentals

Features · Derby

Garden, parking, and floor area in Derby

Live signal across 7,067 Derby rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

80%

of 1,320 Derby listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

85%

of 1,833 Derby listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Derby this week

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

263 new this weekUpdated today

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Derby

Most Derby homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 114,040 properties on the council-tax list.

Modal band

most common band

Mean band

2.04

≈ Band B–C

Stock

114k

114,040 properties

A
51%58,100
B
19%22,090
C
15%17,070
D
8%8,870
E
4%4,820
F
2%2,340
G
1%700
H
0%50

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 Derby

87% of Derby premises can already get full-fibre and 98% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.

Full fibre

87%

FTTP-ready premises

Gigabit

98%

≥1Gbit/s available

Superfast

100%

≥30Mbit/s available

Mean speed

492 Mbit/s

bucket-weighted estimate

Full fibre (FTTP)
87%
Gigabit-capable
98%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
100%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Derby), July 2025, covering 115,426 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.

Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC

EPC ratings for Derby homes

40% of Derby 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

40%

good energy-efficiency stock

Bands D–G

60%

below the proposed 2030 floor

Certificates

96k

96,381 EPCs

A
0%369
B
9%8,683
C
31%29,951
D
40%38,382
E
16%15,569
F
3%2,814
G
1%613

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

Schools · GIAS · DfE

State-funded schools near Derby

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

1
Landau Forte College
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · DE1 2LF
0.33 mi
2
Castle School
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision converter · DE1 3TQ
0.40 mi
3
Becket Primary School
Primary · Community school · DE22 3QB
0.48 mi
4
Castleward Spencer Academy
Primary · Free schools · DE1 2RJ
0.50 mi
5
Bridge Street School
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision converter · DE1 3LB
0.57 mi

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

Area safety

Safety in Derby

Higher Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Derby has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 40 of 40 postcode districts analysed, the median was 209 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Derby is Violent crime, accounting for 39% of all incidents.

Crime overview

209 crimes per area (median)
40 of 40 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Violent crime
39% of incidents

Derby’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 Derby

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.

Allestree has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Derby.

Littleover
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (158) · pop. ~14,000
23
per 1k
Mickleover
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (91) · pop. ~22,000
10
per 1k
Allestree
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (27) · pop. ~14,000
3.7
per 1k
Normanton
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (264) · pop. ~17,000
33
per 1k
Alvaston
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (179) · pop. ~20,000
20
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

Derby listings by portal

We watch 6 property sites for rentals in Derby.

Rightmove

4415

OpenRent

1228

SpareRoom

510

OnTheMarket

463

PrimeLocation

263

Leaders

188

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Frequently asked

Renting in Derby — your questions answered

How much is rent in Derby?

The average (median) asking rent in Derby is £850 a month — a 1-bed is £695 and a 2-bed £910, based on 7,067 live listings across 6 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Derby?

The median asking rent for a studio in Derby is £725 a month, 15% below the city-wide median of £850, based on 754 studios currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Derby is £695 a month, 18% below the city-wide median of £850, based on 2,475 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Derby is £910 a month, 7% above the city-wide median of £850, based on 1,516 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Derby is £1,150 a month, 35% above the city-wide median of £850, based on 917 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Derby is £1,495 a month, 76% above the city-wide median of £850, based on 895 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Derby?

The median asking rent for a room in a Derby house share is £575 a month, 32% below the city-wide median of £850, based on 510 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Derby?

There are currently 7,067 rental properties available in Derby, with 263 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Derby safe for renters?

Derby has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 209 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Derby?

The most commonly reported crime category in Derby is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

Across East Midlands

Average rent across East Midlands

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

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