Renting in Newport
Median asking rent · all sizes · 447 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Newport before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Newport is £1,038 a month, from 447 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £800/moasking · 128 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £950/moasking · 138 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,250/moasking · 122 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,550/moasking · 46 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £598/moasking · 68 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 Newport by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/newport, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Newport
Newport currently has 515 rental listings on the property sites we track, 447 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Newport is £1,038 a month, from 447 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 50 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 50% 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 £950 a month in NP20 (127 live listings) to £2,000 in CM6 (3 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Newport (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 Newport, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Newport is £800 a month, 23% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 128 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Newport is £950 a month, 8% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 138 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Newport is £1,250 a month, 20% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 122 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Newport is £1,550 a month, 49% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 46 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Newport is £598 a month, from 68 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 Newport is £962 a month, up 2.9% 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
+2.9%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+47%
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 Newport spend an estimated 37% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£31,495/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
37%
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
42% of listings
42% of listings
15% of listings
2% of listings
Property mix · houses
Other house houses make up 42% of the 195 houses currently advertised in Newport.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 307 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 Newport, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/newport, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Newport
Live signal across 515 Newport rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
71%
of 112 Newport listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
77%
of 132 Newport listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
50 homes came onto the Newport rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
4 bed detached house
Cutter Close, The Moorings, Newport
1 bed room
Caerleon Road, St Julians, NP19
2 bed terraced house
Jenkins Street, Newport, NP19
1 bed flat/apartment
Sultan Glacier Close, Newport,
2 bed flat/apartment
6 High Street, Gwent NP20
1 bed room
Caerau Road, Newport NP20
4 bed flat/apartment
Palmyra Place, Newport, NP20
3 bed house
Malpas Road, Newport NP20
Studio flat/apartment
Commercial Road, Newport, NP20
2 bed semi-detached house
Malpas Road, Newport
2 bed flat/apartment
Liberty Grove, Newport,
1 bed flat/apartment
Carlton House, Newport,
3 bed property
Dewstow Street, NEWPORT, NP19
2 bed terraced house
Cefn Adda Close, Newport
3 bed terraced house
Dos Road, Newport,
1 bed room
66 Argosy Way, Newport, NP19
2 bed flat/apartment
Lambourne Way, Bettws, NP20
3 bed terraced house
Liscombe Street, Newport, NP19
1 bed flat/apartment
Fields Park Road, Newport
1 bed flat/apartment
Fairoak Avenue, Newport, NP19
1 bed flat/apartment
Charles St, Newport, NP20
2 bed bungalow
Woodland Road, Newport, NP19
1 bed flat/apartment
Bryngwyn Road, NEWPORT, NP20
1 bed flat/apartment
Chepstow Road, Newport, NP19
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Newport. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Newport homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 71,240 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.47
≈ Band C–D
Stock
71k
71,240 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
87% of Newport premises can already get full-fibre and 94% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
87%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
94%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
481 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Newport), July 2025, covering 70,689 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
51% of Newport 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
51%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
49%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
56k
56,495 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Newport. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
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 (261) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (30) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (32) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (79) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (108) · pop. ~6,000
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 Newport is £1,038 a month, from 447 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Newport is £800 a month, 23% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 128 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Newport is £950 a month, 8% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 138 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Newport is £1,250 a month, 20% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 122 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Newport is £1,550 a month, 49% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 46 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Newport is £598 a month, from 68 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 515 rental properties available in Newport, with 50 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across Wales
How Newport compares with the other 6 places we track in Wales — 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 Wales, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/newport, updated 28 October 2026.
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