Renting in Lichfield
Median asking rent · all sizes · 115 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Lichfield is £1,200 a month, from 115 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £850/moasking · 19 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,175/moasking · 53 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,400/moasking · 35 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 Lichfield by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/lichfield, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Lichfield
Lichfield currently has 115 rental listings on the property sites we track. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Lichfield is £1,200 a month, from 115 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 20 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 53% are houses and the rest are flats. How we measure this
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Lichfield, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Lichfield is £850 a month, 29% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 19 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Lichfield is £1,175 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Lichfield is £1,400 a month, 17% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 35 live listings on three 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 Lichfield is £1,100 a month, up 6.6% 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
+6.6%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+34%
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 Lichfield spend an estimated 39% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£33,763/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
39%
Affordable for most renters.
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
47% of listings
53% of listings
Property mix · houses
Other house houses make up 65% of the 54 houses currently advertised in Lichfield.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 78 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 Lichfield, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/lichfield, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Lichfield
Live signal across 115 Lichfield rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Parking
91%
of 65 Lichfield listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
20 homes came onto the Lichfield rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
3 bed house
3 bed room
1 bed flat/apartment
2 bed terraced house
Barlow Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14
1 bed house
Bloomsbury Way, Lichfield, WS14
2 bed house
Chesterfield Road, Lichfield, WS13
2 bed house
Maxtock Avenue, Lichfield, WS13
2 bed flat/apartment
Wade Street, Lichfield, WS13
1 bed flat/apartment
Friary View, Sandford Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13
2 bed flat/apartment
Kensington Oval, Lichfiield WS13 6NR
1 bed flat/apartment
Trent Valley Road, Lichfield, WS13
3 bed house
Insley Avenue, Lichfield, WS14 0FE
1 bed flat/apartment
Trent Valley Road, Lichfield, WS13
2 bed flat/apartment
Kensington Oval, Lichfiield WS13 6NR
2 bed flat/apartment
Wade Street, Lichfield, WS13
1 bed flat/apartment
Friary View, Sandford Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13
2 bed house
Chesterfield Road, Lichfield, WS13 6QW
1 bed house
Bloomsbury Way, Lichfield
2 bed house
Maxtock Avenue, Lichfield, WS13 6PE
2 bed terraced house
Barlow Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14
2 bed terraced house
Maxtock Avenue, Lichfield, WS13 6PE
2 bed flat/apartment
Pear Tree Close, Lichfield WS14
2 bed flat/apartment
Darwin Court, Lichfield
2 bed flat/apartment
Armitage House, Lichfield, WS13
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Lichfield homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 48,910 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.40
≈ Band C–D
Stock
49k
48,910 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
72% of Lichfield premises can already get full-fibre and 84% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
72%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
84%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
98%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
444 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Lichfield), July 2025, covering 48,905 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
49% of Lichfield 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
49%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
51%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
37k
37,101 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Lichfield. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
16 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Lichfield centroid. The five closest:
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · WS14 9AN
Five Spires Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · WS14 9AN
St Michael's CofE (C) Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · WS14 9AN
Queen's Croft High School
Not applicable · Academy special converter · WS13 6PJ
St Chad's CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · WS13 6SN
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Lichfield 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), Lichfield has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 78 of 78 postcode districts analysed, the median was 306 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Lichfield is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Lichfield’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: Anti-social behaviour (11) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (8) · pop. ~1,500
Most common: Violent crime (61) · pop. ~27,000
Most common: Violent crime (61) · pop. ~3,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (8) · 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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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Lichfield is £1,200 a month, from 115 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Lichfield is £850 a month, 29% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 19 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Lichfield is £1,175 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 53 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Lichfield is £1,400 a month, 17% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 35 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 115 rental properties available in Lichfield, with 20 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Lichfield has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 306 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 Lichfield is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across West Midlands
How Lichfield 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/lichfield, updated 28 October 2026.
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