Renting in Gateshead
Median asking rent · all sizes · 433 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Gateshead before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Gateshead is £895 a month, from 433 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £695/moasking · 75 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £895/moasking · 212 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £925/moasking · 105 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,400/moasking · 27 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £580/moasking · 31 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 Gateshead by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/gateshead, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Gateshead
Gateshead currently has 464 rental listings on the property sites we track, 433 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Gateshead is £895 a month, from 433 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 120 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 29% 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 £625 a month in NE11 (12 live listings) to £3,900 in NE2 (5 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Gateshead (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 Gateshead 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.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Gateshead, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Gateshead is £695 a month, 22% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 75 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Gateshead is £895 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 212 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Gateshead is £925 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 105 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Gateshead is £1,400 a month, 56% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 27 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Gateshead is £580 a month, from 31 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 Gateshead is £808 a month, up 5.7% 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
+5.7%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+38%
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 Gateshead spend an estimated 33% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£29,494/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
33%
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
66% of listings
26% of listings
8% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 62% of the 103 houses currently advertised in Gateshead.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 370 live listings in 13 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 Gateshead, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/gateshead, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Gateshead
Live signal across 464 Gateshead rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Parking
98%
of 80 Gateshead listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£1.24/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 43 live listings · October 2026Median 710 sqft across the 43 Gateshead listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
120 homes came onto the Gateshead rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed property
Tyne View Place, Gateshead NE8
2 bed property
Affleck Street, Gateshead NE8
2 bed property
Redgrave Close, Gateshead NE8
3 bed property
Ropery Road, Gateshead NE8
2 bed terraced house
Hawthorn Drive, Dunston, NE11
1 bed flat/apartment
Duke Walk, Gateshead, NE8
2 bed flat/apartment
Rectory Road, Gateshead, NE8
3 bed flat/apartment
Baltic Quay, Mill Road, Gateshead Quayside
1 bed flat/apartment
Worsdell Drive, Gateshead, NE8
3 bed terraced house
October Courtyard, Gateshead, NE8
Studio flat/apartment
Tranquil House, Worsdell Drive, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE8
1 bed flat/apartment
Princess Street, Pelaw, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE10 0QT
2 bed flat/apartment
Ochre Mews, Raven Road, Gateshead, NE8
2 bed semi-detached house
November Courtyard, The Staiths, Gateshead, NE8
3 bed terraced house
Mardale Gardens, Lyndhurst, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE9 6QA
3 bed terraced house
Beech Gardens, Low Fell, NE9
3 bed terraced house
Ropery Road, Gateshead, NE8
3 bed house
Festival Park Drive, Gateshead
2 bed cottage
Ravensworth Park Estate, Lobley Hill
2 bed flat/apartment
Redgrave Close, Gateshead, NE8
2 bed flat/apartment
Affleck Street, Gateshead, NE8
3 bed flat/apartment
Acacia Road, Gateshead NE10
2 bed flat/apartment
Worsdell Drive, Gateshead
3 bed terraced house
St. Cuthberts Road, Gateshead
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Gateshead. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Gateshead homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 95,230 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
1.85
≈ Band A–B
Stock
95k
95,230 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
73% of Gateshead premises can already get full-fibre and 91% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
73%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
91%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
467 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Gateshead), July 2025, covering 96,542 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
46% of Gateshead 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
75k
75,122 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Gateshead. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
13 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Gateshead centroid. The five closest:
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead
Primary · Academy converter · NE8 1LR
Caedmon Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · NE8 4LH
South Street Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · NE8 4BB
Brighton Avenue Primary School
Primary · Community school · NE8 1XS
North East Futures UTC
Secondary · University technical college · NE1 3AS
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Gateshead 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), Gateshead has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 69 of 69 postcode districts analysed, the median was 165 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Gateshead is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Gateshead’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 (126) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (92) · pop. ~13,000
Most common: Violent crime (32) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Shoplifting (38) · pop. ~17,000
Most common: Violent crime (29) · pop. ~15,000
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 Gateshead is £895 a month, from 433 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Gateshead is £695 a month, 22% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 75 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Gateshead is £895 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 212 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Gateshead is £925 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 105 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Gateshead is £1,400 a month, 56% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 27 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Gateshead is £580 a month, from 31 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 464 rental properties available in Gateshead, with 120 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Gateshead has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 165 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 Gateshead is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across North East
How Gateshead compares with the other 9 places we track in North East — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across North East, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/gateshead, updated 28 October 2026.
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