Renting in Gloucester
Median asking rent · all sizes · 532 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Gloucester before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Gloucester is £1,150 a month, from 532 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £825/moasking · 208 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,150/moasking · 141 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,400/moasking · 103 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,025/moasking · 72 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £650/moasking · 77 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 Gloucester by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/gloucester, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Gloucester
Gloucester currently has 609 rental listings on the property sites we track, 532 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Gloucester is £1,150 a month, from 532 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 130 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 57% 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 £1,050 a month in GL1 (255 live listings) to £1,350 in GL2 (85 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Gloucester (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 Gloucester, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Gloucester is £825 a month, 28% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 208 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Gloucester is £1,150 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 141 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Gloucester is £1,400 a month, 22% 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 4+ bed home in Gloucester is £2,025 a month, 76% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 72 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Gloucester is £650 a month, from 77 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 Gloucester is £1,122 a month, up 6.8% 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
+6.8%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+44%
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 Gloucester spend an estimated 44% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£30,455/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
44%
Stretched — above the 30% rent-burden threshold.
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
35% of listings
48% of listings
16% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 45% of the 227 houses currently advertised in Gloucester.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 430 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 Gloucester, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/gloucester, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Gloucester
Live signal across 609 Gloucester rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
100%
of 74 Gloucester listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
100%
of 127 Gloucester listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
130 homes came onto the Gloucester rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
St. Marys Square, Gloucester GL1
1 bed property
Victoria Street, Gloucester GL1
1 bed property
4&6 Russell Street, Gloucester GL1
2 bed property
Myrtle Close, Gloucester GL4
6 bed property
Barnwood Road, Gloucester GL2
3 bed property
Welsh Lane, Innsworth, Gloucester GL3
2 bed property
Buscombe Gardens, Hucclecote GL3
2 bed property
Lock Warehouse, The Docks, Gloucester GL1
2 bed property
Saunders Court, Gloucester GL4
2 bed property
Eastgate Street, Gloucester GL1
2 bed property
Chelsea Court, Gloucester GL1
1 bed property
Leven Close, Longlevens GL2
1 bed property
Armscroft Court, Barnwood, Gloucester GL2
1 bed property
Mayhill Way, Grh (Gloucestershire Royal Hospital), Gloucester GL1
1 bed property
Barnwood Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire GL4
1 bed property
Barnwood Road, Gloucester GL2
3 bed property
Eastfield Mews, White City, Gloucester GL4
2 bed house
Lyneham Drive
3 bed house
Lorimer Gardens, Churchdown, Gloucester
1 bed flat/apartment
Victoria Street, Gloucester GL1
1 bed flat/apartment
Barnwood Road, Gloucestershire GL4
2 bed flat/apartment
Chelsea Court, Gloucester GL1
3 bed terraced house
Ash Grove, Gloucestershire, GL4
1 bed room
Wellington Street, Gloucester, GL1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Gloucester. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Gloucester homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 59,840 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.42
≈ Band B–C
Stock
60k
59,840 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
54% of Gloucester premises can already get full-fibre and 94% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
54%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
94%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
478 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Gloucester), July 2025, covering 59,017 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
48% of Gloucester 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
48%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
52%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
50k
49,629 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Gloucester. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
9 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Gloucester centroid. The five closest:
Kingsholm Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · GL1 3BN
Widden Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · GL1 4AW
St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · GL1 5BD
Denmark Road High School
Secondary · Academy converter · GL1 3JN
St James' Church of England Junior School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · GL1 4JU
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Gloucester centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
Area safety
Based on the latest police data (April 2026), Gloucester has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 21 of 21 postcode districts analysed, the median was 50 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Gloucester is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Gloucester ranks well for renters concerned about neighbourhood safety. Every Dwellio alert includes the area’s crime data so you can compare at a glance.
Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. 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 Gloucester is £1,150 a month, from 532 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Gloucester is £825 a month, 28% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 208 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Gloucester is £1,150 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 141 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Gloucester is £1,400 a month, 22% 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 4+ bed home in Gloucester is £2,025 a month, 76% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 72 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Gloucester is £650 a month, from 77 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 609 rental properties available in Gloucester, with 130 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Gloucester has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 50 reported crimes per postcode area (April 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Gloucester is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for April 2026.
Across South West
How Gloucester compares with the other 17 places we track in South West — 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 West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/gloucester, updated 28 October 2026.
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