Renting in Kidderminster
Median asking rent · all sizes · 200 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Kidderminster is £950 a month, from 200 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £725/moasking · 53 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £913/moasking · 56 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,098/moasking · 51 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,700/moasking · 30 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 Kidderminster by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/kidderminster, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Kidderminster
Kidderminster currently has 200 rental listings on the property sites we track. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Kidderminster is £950 a month, from 200 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 49 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 £900 a month in DY11 (59 live listings) to £950 in DY10 (56 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Kidderminster (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 Kidderminster, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Kidderminster is £725 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Kidderminster is £913 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 56 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Kidderminster is £1,098 a month, 16% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 51 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Kidderminster is £1,700 a month, 79% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 30 live listings on five property sites (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 Wyre Forest is £838 a month, down 1.2% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). Wyre Forest is the ONS area that covers Kidderminster. 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
-1.2%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+29%
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
35% of listings
63% of listings
3% of listings
Property mix · houses
Other house houses make up 50% of the 100 houses currently advertised in Kidderminster.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 130 live listings in 2 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 Kidderminster, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/kidderminster, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Kidderminster
Live signal across 200 Kidderminster rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
81%
of 74 Kidderminster listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
80%
of 80 Kidderminster listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
49 homes came onto the Kidderminster rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed property
Beaulieu Close, Kidderminster DY11
3 bed property
Stourbridge Road, Kidderminster DY10
1 bed room
New Road, KIDDERMINSTER
3 bed property
Stourbridge Road, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10
2 bed flat/apartment
Beaulieu Close, Kidderminster, DY11
2 bed terraced house
Lorne Street, Kidderminster, DY10
2 bed house
Peregrine Grove, Kidderminster
6 bed detached house
New Road, KIDDERMINSTER
1 bed room
New Road, Kidderminster
1 bed room
New Road, KIDDERMINSTER
1 bed room
New Road, KIDDERMINSTER
1 bed room
New Road, KIDDERMINSTER
1 bed room
New Road, KIDDERMINSTER
2 bed terraced house
Mill Lane, Kidderminster, DY11
2 bed terraced house
Broad Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10
Studio flat/apartment
Bewdley Road, Kidderminster, DY11
1 bed flat/apartment
Flat 3, Kidderminster, DY10
3 bed property
Merton Close, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10
3 bed terraced house
Albert Road, Kidderminster, DY10
1 bed room
Chester Road North, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10
1 bed flat/apartment
Radford Court, Radford Avenue, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10
3 bed terraced house
Radford Avenue, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10
4 bed bungalow
Franche Road, Kidderminster, DY11
2 bed property
Dunlin Drive, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Kidderminster. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Kidderminster homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 48,640 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
2.79
≈ Band B–C
Stock
49k
48,640 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
82% of Kidderminster premises can already get full-fibre and 89% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
82%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
89%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
462 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Wyre Forest), July 2025, covering 47,051 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
39% of Kidderminster 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
36k
36,365 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Wyre Forest. 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 Kidderminster centroid. The five closest:
St Ambrose Catholic Primary
Primary · Academy converter · DY10 1RP
Unity Academy
Not applicable · Free schools alternative provision · DY10 2QJ
St George's CofE School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · DY10 2BX
Holy Trinity School
All-through · Free schools · DY10 2BY
St Mary's CofE (VA) Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · DY10 2LX
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Kidderminster 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), Kidderminster has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 62 of 62 postcode districts analysed, the median was 258 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Kidderminster is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Kidderminster’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 (44) · pop. ~20,000
Most common: Violent crime (18) · pop. ~5,000
Most common: Violent crime (117) · pop. ~4,000
Most common: Violent crime (98) · pop. ~4,000
Most common: Violent crime (85) · 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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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Kidderminster is £950 a month, from 200 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Kidderminster is £725 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Kidderminster is £913 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 56 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Kidderminster is £1,098 a month, 16% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 51 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Kidderminster is £1,700 a month, 79% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 30 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 200 rental properties available in Kidderminster, with 49 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Kidderminster has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 258 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 Kidderminster is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across West Midlands
How Kidderminster 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/kidderminster, updated 28 October 2026.
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