Renting in Kettering
Median asking rent · all sizes · 292 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Kettering before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Kettering is £950 a month, from 292 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £750/moasking · 80 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £925/moasking · 94 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,200/moasking · 77 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,500/moasking · 33 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £620/moasking · 57 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 Kettering by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/kettering, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Kettering
Kettering currently has 349 rental listings on the property sites we track, 292 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Kettering is £950 a month, from 292 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 36 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 59% 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 £850 a month in NN16 (151 live listings) to £1,335 in NN8 (9 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Kettering (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 Kettering, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Kettering is £750 a month, 21% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 80 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Kettering is £925 a month, 3% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 94 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Kettering is £1,200 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 77 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Kettering is £1,500 a month, 58% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 33 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Kettering is £620 a month, from 57 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 North Northamptonshire is £995 a month, up 4.7% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). North Northamptonshire is the ONS area that covers Kettering. 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
+4.7%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+36%
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
31% of listings
44% of listings
21% of listings
4% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 41% of the 130 houses currently advertised in Kettering.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 238 live listings in 5 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 Kettering, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/kettering, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Kettering
Live signal across 349 Kettering rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
82%
of 98 Kettering listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
83%
of 115 Kettering listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
36 homes came onto the Kettering rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Times Complex, NN16
2 bed bungalow
2 Bed Bungalow, Bryant Road, NN15
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed End Terrace, Silverwood Road, NN15
2 bed flat/apartment
St Peters Avenue, Kettering NN16
3 bed terraced house
Tresham Street, Kettering NN16
3 bed semi-detached house
Rockingham Paddocks, Kettering NN16
2 bed flat/apartment
Railway View, KETTERING
3 bed terraced house
Silverwood Road, Kettering, NN15
2 bed flat/apartment
Montagu Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire , NN16
1 bed house
Torville Crescent, Kettering
2 bed flat/apartment
Princes Court - Kettering
1 bed flat/apartment
Eskdail Place - Kettering
2 bed bungalow
Bryant Road, Kettering, NN15
4 bed detached house
Beardsley Gardens, Barton Seagrave, Kettering
2 bed bungalow
Montcalm Close, Kettering
3 bed terraced house
Pollard Street, Kettering
1 bed flat/apartment
Regent Street, Kettering, Northants
2 bed flat/apartment
Railway View, KETTERING
1 bed flat/apartment
Maybury Close, Kettering, Northants
2 bed bungalow
Brington Drive, Barton Seagrave, Kettering
2 bed flat/apartment
Princes Court - Kettering
2 bed terraced house
AVONDALE MEWS, KETTERING
3 bed semi-detached house
NN15, Ashdown Close, Barton Seagrave
4 bed detached house
NN15, Torville Crescent, Kettering
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Kettering. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Kettering homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 159,500 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.59
≈ Band B–C
Stock
160k
159,500 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
88% of Kettering premises can already get full-fibre and 96% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
88%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
96%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
484 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (North Northamptonshire), July 2025, covering 161,493 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
53% of Kettering 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
53%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
47%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
129k
129,265 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under North Northamptonshire. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
11 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Kettering centroid. The five closest:
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · NN15 7JZ
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · NN16 9DF
St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · NN16 0JH
Kettering Park Infant Academy
Primary · Academy converter · NN16 9RU
Kettering Park Junior Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · NN16 9SE
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Kettering 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), Kettering has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 18 of 18 postcode districts analysed, the median was 162 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Kettering is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Kettering’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 (21) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (22) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (19) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (38) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (131) · pop. ~5,000
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 Kettering is £950 a month, from 292 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Kettering is £750 a month, 21% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 80 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Kettering is £925 a month, 3% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 94 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Kettering is £1,200 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 77 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Kettering is £1,500 a month, 58% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 33 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Kettering is £620 a month, from 57 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 349 rental properties available in Kettering, with 36 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Kettering has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 162 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 Kettering is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East Midlands
How Kettering compares with the other 14 places we track in East Midlands — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across East Midlands, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/kettering, updated 28 October 2026.
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