Renting in Leicester
Median asking rent · all sizes · 2,264 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Leicester before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Leicester is £985 a month, from 2,264 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £755/moasking · 755 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £995/moasking · 625 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,200/moasking · 376 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,820/moasking · 404 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £575/moasking · 101 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 Leicester by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/leicester, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Leicester
Leicester currently has 2,365 rental listings on the property sites we track, 2,264 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Leicester is £985 a month, from 2,264 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 655 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 45% 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 LE87 (89 live listings) to £1,250 in LE19 (15 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Leicester (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 Leicester, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Leicester is £755 a month, 23% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 755 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Leicester is £995 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 625 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Leicester is £1,200 a month, 22% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 376 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Leicester is £1,820 a month, 85% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 404 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Leicester is £575 a month, from 101 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 Leicester is £1,020 a month, up 0.9% 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
+0.9%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+42%
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 Leicester spend an estimated 44% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£27,858/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
44%
Stretched — above the 30% rent-burden threshold.
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
52% of listings
42% of listings
5% of listings
0% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 55% of the 820 houses currently advertised in Leicester.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 1,809 live listings in 13 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 Leicester, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/leicester, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Leicester
Live signal across 2,365 Leicester rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
75%
of 617 Leicester listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
77%
of 761 Leicester listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
655 homes came onto the Leicester rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Grand Union Embankment LE3
1 bed property
Northgate Street, Leicester LE3
2 bed property
Watkin Road, Freemans Meadow LE2
2 bed property
Northgate Street, Leicester LE3
4 bed property
Ullswater Street, Leicester LE2
Studio flat/apartment
Erskine Street, Leicester, LE1
1 bed flat/apartment
Old Milton Street, Leicester, LE1
1 bed flat/apartment
Queen Street, Leicester, LE1
3 bed terraced house
Little Masons Close, Leicester LE3
2 bed property
Rawson Street, LEICESTER, LE1
2 bed detached house
Western Boulevard, Bede Island, LE2 7HN
1 bed flat/apartment
Mitchian Grand Union Building, Northgate street
2 bed flat/apartment
Watkin Road, Leicester
2 bed flat/apartment
The Rowley Building, Queen Street, Leicester, Leicester City
2 bed terraced house
Latimer Street, Leicester
2 bed property
Barclay Street, Leicester, Leicester
1 bed flat/apartment
The Rowley Building, Queen Street, Leicester, Leicester City
2 bed property
Watkin Road, Leicester LE2
3 bed property
Park Rise, Leicester LE3
2 bed property
Westcotes Drive, Leicester LE3
3 bed property
Woodgate Drive, Birstall, Leicester LE4
4 bed property
Clarendon Street, Leicester LE2
2 bed property
Westcotes Drive, Leicester LE3
2 bed property
Earl Street, Leicester LE1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Leicester. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Leicester homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 144,660 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
1.76
≈ Band A–B
Stock
145k
144,660 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
94% of Leicester premises can already get full-fibre and 97% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
94%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
97%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
100%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
491 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Leicester), July 2025, covering 136,633 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
39% of Leicester 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
133k
133,295 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Leicester. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
14 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Leicester centroid. The five closest:
Castle Mead Academy
Secondary · Free schools · LE3 5QT
Slater Primary School
Primary · Community school · LE3 5AS
King Richard III Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · LE3 5PA
Fosse Mead Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · LE3 5EA
Shaftesbury Junior School
Primary · Community school · LE3 0QE
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Leicester 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), Leicester has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 25 of 25 postcode districts analysed, the median was 182 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Leicester is Violent crime, accounting for 48% of all incidents.
Leicester’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 (334) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (153) · pop. ~13,000
Most common: Violent crime (113) · pop. ~18,000
Most common: Violent crime (116) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Violent crime (188) · pop. ~15,000
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 Leicester is £985 a month, from 2,264 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Leicester is £755 a month, 23% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 755 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Leicester is £995 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 625 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Leicester is £1,200 a month, 22% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 376 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Leicester is £1,820 a month, 85% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 404 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Leicester is £575 a month, from 101 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 2,365 rental properties available in Leicester, with 655 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Leicester has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 182 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Leicester is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East Midlands
How Leicester compares with the other 14 places we track in East Midlands — 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 East Midlands, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/leicester, updated 28 October 2026.
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