Renting in Guildford
Median asking rent · all sizes · 743 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Guildford before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Guildford is £1,863 a month, from 743 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,273/moasking · 296 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,990/moasking · 159 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £2,350/moasking · 101 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £3,500/moasking · 148 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £765/moasking · 93 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 Guildford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/guildford, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Guildford
Guildford currently has 836 rental listings on the property sites we track, 743 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Guildford is £1,863 a month, from 743 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 169 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 46% 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 £1,425 a month in GU22 (6 live listings) to £2,425 in GU3 (12 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Guildford (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 Guildford 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 Guildford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Guildford is £1,273 a month, 32% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 296 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Guildford is £1,990 a month, 7% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 159 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Guildford is £2,350 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 101 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Guildford is £3,500 a month, 88% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 148 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Guildford is £765 a month, from 93 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 Guildford is £1,754 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
+24%
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 Guildford spend an estimated 53% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£39,985/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
53%
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
46% of listings
39% of listings
14% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Semi-detached houses make up 41% of the 264 houses currently advertised in Guildford.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 590 live listings in 7 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 Guildford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/guildford, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Guildford
Live signal across 836 Guildford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
91%
of 208 Guildford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
89%
of 230 Guildford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£2.92/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 70 live listings · October 2026Median 773 sqft across the 70 Guildford listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
169 homes came onto the Guildford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed flat/apartment
Flat 168, Austen House, Station View, GU1
2 bed flat/apartment
Surrey House, New Road, Guildford, GU4
Studio flat/apartment
Electric Close, Godalming, Surrey, GU7
Studio flat/apartment
Electric Close, Godalming, Surrey, GU7
3 bed property
Jacobs Green, Guildford GU1
1 bed property
Bury Street, Guildford GU2
1 bed property
York Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1
2 bed property
Victoria Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1
4 bed property
Coplestone Chase, Guildford, Surrey GU1
4 bed property
Guildford Park Avenue, Guildford, Surrey GU2
4 bed property
Stocton Close, Guildford, Surrey GU1
3 bed property
Broad Street, Guildford, Surrey GU3
2 bed property
Madrid Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2
2 bed property
Fairlands Avenue, Fairlands, Guildford, Surrey GU3
1 bed property
Bury Street, Guildford GU2
1 bed property
Applegarth Avenue, Guildford, Surrey GU2
1 bed property
Willow Way, Guildford GU1
1 bed property
Fir Tree Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1
1 bed property
Northway, Guildford GU2
6 bed house
6 bed house
3 bed house
6 bed detached house
6 Bed Detached House, Rupert Road, GU2
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Quarry Street, GU1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Guildford. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Guildford homes sit in Band D. The weighted average works out close to Band D–E across 62,230 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
D
most common band
Mean band
4.45
≈ Band D–E
Stock
62k
62,230 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
64% of Guildford premises can already get full-fibre and 81% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
64%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
81%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
441 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Guildford), July 2025, covering 58,491 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
47% of Guildford 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
47%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
53%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
52k
51,758 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Guildford. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
7 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Guildford centroid. The five closest:
Surrey Maths School
16 plus · Free schools 16 to 19 · GU1 4QU
Sandfield Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · GU1 4DT
St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · GU2 4YD
Guildford County School
Secondary · Academy converter · GU2 4LU
Pewley Down Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · GU1 3PT
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Guildford centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
Area safety
Based on the latest police data (July 2026), Guildford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 12 of 12 postcode districts analysed, the median was 6 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Guildford is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Guildford 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.
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 (114) · pop. ~5,000
Most common: Violent crime (19) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (32) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (14) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (14) · pop. ~4,000
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 Guildford is £1,863 a month, from 743 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Guildford is £1,273 a month, 32% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 296 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Guildford is £1,990 a month, 7% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 159 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Guildford is £2,350 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 101 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Guildford is £3,500 a month, 88% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 148 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Guildford is £765 a month, from 93 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 836 rental properties available in Guildford, with 169 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Guildford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 6 reported crimes per postcode area (July 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Guildford is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for July 2026.
Across South East
How Guildford 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/guildford, updated 28 October 2026.
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