Renting in Hackney
Median asking rent · all sizes · 1,238 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Hackney is £2,650 a month, from 1,238 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £2,130/moasking · 417 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £2,850/moasking · 488 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £3,750/moasking · 169 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £4,500/moasking · 87 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £1,050/moasking · 103 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 Hackney by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/hackney, updated 30 October 2026.
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Renting in Hackney
Hackney currently has 1,341 rental listings on the property sites we track, 1,238 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Hackney is £2,650 a month, from 1,238 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 265 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 8% 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 £2,000 a month in N81 (10 live listings) to £3,499 in EC2A (52 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Hackney (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 Hackney, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Hackney is £2,130 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 417 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Hackney is £2,850 a month, 8% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 488 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Hackney is £3,750 a month, 42% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 169 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Hackney is £4,500 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 87 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Hackney is £1,050 a month, from 103 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 Hackney is £2,667 a month, up 3.9% 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
+3.9%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+41%
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
85% of listings
7% of listings
8% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 62% of the 90 houses currently advertised in Hackney.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 1,117 live listings in 12 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 Hackney, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/hackney, updated 30 October 2026.
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Features · Hackney
Live signal across 1,341 Hackney rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
77%
of 252 Hackney listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
47%
of 143 Hackney listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£4.22/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 354 live listings · October 2026Median 736 sqft across the 354 Hackney listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
265 homes came onto the Hackney rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
3 bed flat/apartment
Birkbeck Mews, London E8
3 bed flat/apartment
Union Mill Apartments, Samuel Street, London, E8 4FN
1 bed flat/apartment
Union Mill Apartments, Samuel Street, London, E8 4FN
3 bed flat/apartment
Canal Mill Apartments, Laburnum Street, E2
1 bed flat/apartment
Homerton, London, E9
4 bed room
Bethnal Green, London E2
2 bed terraced house
Merriam Avenue, London, E9
4 bed terraced house
Elderfield Road, Lower Clapton, Hackney, E5
1 bed flat/apartment
Reading Lane, Hackney, London, E8
1 bed flat/apartment
Large Studio/Separate Kitchen, Mare Street, Hackney, E8
4 bed flat/apartment
St. Mark's Rise, London, E8
2 bed flat/apartment
Hackney Road, Shoreditch, London, E2
5 bed house
Morning Lane, London E9
1 bed room
Mildenhall Road, Lower Clapton, Hackney, London, E5
4 bed terraced house
Gillett Place, London, N16
1 bed flat/apartment
Strand Building, London, E9
2 bed flat/apartment
Unit 26, 39, Gransden Avenue E8
1 bed flat/apartment
EX 5 Ability Plaza, 310 Kingsland Road E8
2 bed flat/apartment
London Wharf, Wharf Place, Haggerston, London, E2
3 bed flat/apartment
Unit 77, Springfield House, 5 Tyssen Street E8
3 bed flat/apartment
Hackney – 3 Bedrooms Flat
2 bed flat/apartment
Dalston Lane, London, E8
1 bed flat/apartment
Stamford Road, Dalston, N1
Studio flat/apartment
-13 Long Street, London, E2
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Schools · GIAS · DfE
35 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Hackney centroid. The five closest:
The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary School
Secondary · Voluntary aided school · E9 6NR
Morningside Primary School
Primary · Community school · E9 6LL
St John and St James CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · E9 6DX
Gayhurst Community School
Primary · Community school · E8 3EN
The Olive School, Hackney
Primary · Free schools · E9 6EJ
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Hackney centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
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Frequently asked
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Hackney is £2,650 a month, from 1,238 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Hackney is £2,130 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 417 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Hackney is £2,850 a month, 8% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 488 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Hackney is £3,750 a month, 42% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 169 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Hackney is £4,500 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 87 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Hackney is £1,050 a month, from 103 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 1,341 rental properties available in Hackney, with 265 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across the capital
Hackney compared with the rest of Greater London — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across London boroughs, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/hackney, updated 30 October 2026.
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