Renting in Hereford
Median asking rent · all sizes · 181 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Hereford before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Hereford is £925 a month, from 181 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £725/moasking · 61 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £950/moasking · 44 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,200/moasking · 40 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,600/moasking · 27 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £600/moasking · 65 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 Hereford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/hereford, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Hereford
Hereford currently has 246 rental listings on the property sites we track, 181 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Hereford is £925 a month, from 181 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 31 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 64% 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 £685 a month in GL1 (4 live listings) to £950 in HR1 (42 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Hereford (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 Hereford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Hereford is £725 a month, 22% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 61 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Hereford is £950 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 44 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Hereford is £1,200 a month, 30% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 40 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Hereford is £1,600 a month, 73% 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 Hereford is £600 a month, from 65 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 Hereford is £831 a month, up 2.9% 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
+2.9%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+28%
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
23% of listings
41% of listings
35% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 48% of the 80 houses currently advertised in Hereford.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 119 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 Hereford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/hereford, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Hereford
Live signal across 246 Hereford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
79%
of 65 Hereford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
88%
of 80 Hereford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
31 homes came onto the Hereford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Broad Leys Crescent, Hereford HR2
3 bed semi-detached house
3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Central Avenue, HR1
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Broad Leys Crescent, HR2
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, Sydney Box Drive, HR4
6 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Ryelands Street, HR4
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed Terraced House, Grove Road, HR1
1 bed flat/apartment
Stagecoach Lodge, West Street, Hereford, HR4 0BX
1 bed flat/apartment
Folly Lane, Hereford
3 bed semi-detached house
Yazor Road, Hereford
2 bed terraced house
Rosebery Close, Hereford
1 bed flat/apartment
Trinity Court, Vowles Close, Hereford
2 bed semi-detached house
Lower Bullingham, Hereford
1 bed flat/apartment
St. Ethelbert Street, Hereford
1 bed room
Room to Let in Shared House – Coningsby Street, Hereford
2 bed flat/apartment
Chatsworth Road, Hereford
1 bed room
Broad Leys Crescent, Hereford, HR2
3 bed semi-detached house
Yazor Road, Hereford
2 bed flat/apartment
Chatsworth Road, Hereford
Studio flat/apartment
Crest Court, Bobblestock, Hereford, HR4
2 bed semi-detached house
Lower Bullingham, Hereford
1 bed flat/apartment
Commercial Road, Hereford, HR1
1 bed flat/apartment
Trinity Court, Vowles Close, Hereford
2 bed semi-detached house
Mantella Drive, Hereford, HR1
4 bed property
Red Norman Rise, Hereford, HR1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Hereford. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Hereford homes sit in Band B. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 89,790 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
B
most common band
Mean band
3.33
≈ Band C–D
Stock
90k
89,790 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
84% of Hereford premises can already get full-fibre and 84% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
84%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
84%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
96%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
438 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Herefordshire, County of), July 2025, covering 87,007 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
39% of Hereford 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
39%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
61%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
73k
73,111 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Herefordshire, County of. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
12 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Hereford centroid. The five closest:
Lord Scudamore Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · HR4 0AS
Herefordshire Pupil Referral Service
Not applicable · Pupil referral unit · HR1 2DY
St Thomas Cantilupe CofE Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · HR1 2DY
St James' Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · HR1 2QN
Riverside Primary School
Primary · Community school · HR2 7JF
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Hereford 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), Hereford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 8 of 8 postcode districts analysed, the median was 18 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Hereford is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Hereford 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 (165) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (104) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (25) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (14) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (31) · 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 Hereford is £925 a month, from 181 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Hereford is £725 a month, 22% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 61 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Hereford is £950 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 44 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Hereford is £1,200 a month, 30% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 40 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Hereford is £1,600 a month, 73% 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 Hereford is £600 a month, from 65 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 246 rental properties available in Hereford, with 31 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Hereford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 18 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 Hereford is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across West Midlands
How Hereford compares with the other 22 places we track in West Midlands — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across West Midlands, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/hereford, updated 28 October 2026.
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