Renting in Maidstone
Median asking rent · all sizes · 700 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Maidstone before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Maidstone is £1,250 a month, from 700 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £995/moasking · 232 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,300/moasking · 225 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,600/moasking · 111 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,300/moasking · 65 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £750/moasking · 75 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 Maidstone by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/maidstone, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Maidstone
Maidstone currently has 775 rental listings on the property sites we track, 700 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Maidstone is £1,250 a month, from 700 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 152 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 37% 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 £1,150 a month in ME14 (142 live listings) to £1,598 in ME20 (4 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Maidstone (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 Maidstone, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Maidstone is £995 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 232 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Maidstone is £1,300 a month, 4% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 225 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Maidstone is £1,600 a month, 28% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 111 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Maidstone is £2,300 a month, 84% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 65 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Maidstone is £750 a month, from 75 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 Maidstone is £1,303 a month, up 3.0% 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
+3.0%
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
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in Maidstone spend an estimated 46% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£34,151/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
46%
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
55% of listings
32% of listings
12% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 44% of the 204 houses currently advertised in Maidstone.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 484 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 Maidstone, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/maidstone, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Maidstone
Live signal across 775 Maidstone rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
78%
of 179 Maidstone listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
73%
of 218 Maidstone listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
152 homes came onto the Maidstone rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Hedley Street, Maidstone ME14
2 bed property
Cornhill Place, Maidstone ME15
2 bed property
Ragstone Fields, Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, Kent ME17
2 bed property
Kingswood House, Marigold Way ME16
2 bed property
Merton Road, Bearsted ME15
2 bed property
6 Garrington Close, Vinters Park ME14
3 bed property
Heathfield Road, Maidstone ME14
3 bed house
2 bed flat/apartment
7 bed room
5 bed room
6 bed room
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
10 bed room
1 bed room
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
6 bed room
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
2 bed flat/apartment
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Maidstone. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Maidstone homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 78,000 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.82
≈ Band C–D
Stock
78k
78,000 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 Maidstone premises can already get full-fibre and 81% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
72%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
81%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
96%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
436 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Maidstone), July 2025, covering 76,254 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
54% of Maidstone 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
54%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
46%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
67k
66,664 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Maidstone. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
15 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Maidstone centroid. The five closest:
Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · ME16 8ER
St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · ME16 8ER
Brunswick House Primary School
Primary · Community school · ME16 0QQ
Archbishop Courtenay Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · ME15 6QN
Valley Invicta Primary School At East Borough
Primary · Academy converter · ME14 5DX
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Maidstone 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), Maidstone has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 36 of 36 postcode districts analysed, the median was 151 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Maidstone is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Maidstone’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 (27) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (49) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (111) · pop. ~5,000
Most common: Violent crime (178) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (193) · 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 Maidstone is £1,250 a month, from 700 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Maidstone is £995 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 232 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Maidstone is £1,300 a month, 4% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 225 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Maidstone is £1,600 a month, 28% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 111 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Maidstone is £2,300 a month, 84% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 65 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Maidstone is £750 a month, from 75 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 775 rental properties available in Maidstone, with 152 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Maidstone has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 151 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 Maidstone is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across South East
How Maidstone compares with the other 34 places we track in South East — 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 South East, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/maidstone, updated 28 October 2026.
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