Renting in Norwich
Median asking rent · all sizes · 1,453 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Norwich before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Norwich is £1,350 a month, from 1,453 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £670/moasking · 390 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,200/moasking · 253 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,390/moasking · 260 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,300/moasking · 510 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £600/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 Norwich by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/norwich, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Norwich
Norwich currently has 1,528 rental listings on the property sites we track, 1,453 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Norwich is £1,350 a month, from 1,453 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 471 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 67% 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 £1,063 a month in NR99 (26 live listings) to £1,700 in NR4 (167 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Norwich (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.
Dwellio watches Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders for Norwich around the clock — so a new listing reaches your inbox before most renters have refreshed the app. Here’s how our rental alerts work. Looking further afield? You can browse rentals in every UK city.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Norwich, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Norwich is £670 a month, 50% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 390 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Norwich is £1,200 a month, 11% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 253 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Norwich is £1,390 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 260 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Norwich is £2,300 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 510 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Norwich is £600 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 Norwich is £1,148 a month, up 0.8% 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
+0.8%
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
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in Norwich spend an estimated 45% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£30,421/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
45%
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
31% of listings
61% of listings
7% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 49% of the 714 houses currently advertised in Norwich.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 1,088 live listings in 9 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 Norwich, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/norwich, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Norwich
Live signal across 1,528 Norwich rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
92%
of 436 Norwich listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
90%
of 384 Norwich listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£1.58/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 168 live listings · October 2026Median 893 sqft across the 168 Norwich listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
471 homes came onto the Norwich rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed flat/apartment
Weavers Close, Horsham St. Faith, Norwich, NR10
1 bed flat/apartment
Waterworks Road, Norwich, NR2
3 bed property
Newbegin Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1
4 bed property
Goodhale Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR5
1 bed property
Goodhale Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR5
2 bed property
Merton Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2
2 bed flat/apartment
Rouen Road, Norwich, NR1
4 bed property
Wakefield Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR5
3 bed property
Oak Street, Norwich NR3
4 bed property
Colman Road, Norwich NR4
5 bed property
Phillipa Flowerday Plain, Norwich NR2
1 bed property
Norwich NR2
4 bed property
Nasmith Road, Norwich NR4
3 bed property
Ostler Road, Rackheath, Norwich NR7
3 bed property
Brunswick Road, Norwich NR2
2 bed property
Romany Road, Norwich NR3
1 bed property
Horsford Street, Norwich NR2
2 bed property
Lord Nelson Drive, Norwich NR5
3 bed property
Lowther Road, Norwich NR4
1 bed property
Bull Close, Norwich NR3
2 bed property
Highland Road, Norwich NR2
2 bed property
Grove Avenue, Norwich NR1
3 bed property
Avenue Road, Norwich NR2
3 bed terraced house
3 Bed Terraced House, Gertrude Road, NR3
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Norwich. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Norwich homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 69,160 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.03
≈ Band B–C
Stock
69k
69,160 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
77% of Norwich premises can already get full-fibre and 92% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
77%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
92%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
98%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
474 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Norwich), July 2025, covering 54,491 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
51% of Norwich 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
60k
59,527 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Norwich. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
13 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Norwich centroid. The five closest:
Jane Austen College
Secondary · Free schools · NR3 1DD
Charles Darwin Primary School
Primary · Free schools · NR1 1DJ
Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form Free School
16 plus · Free schools 16 to 19 · NR2 1NR
The Free School Norwich
Primary · Free schools · NR1 3NX
Magdalen Gates Primary School
Primary · Community school · NR3 1NG
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Norwich 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), Norwich has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 24 of 24 postcode districts analysed, the median was 24 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Norwich is Violent crime, accounting for 182% of all incidents.
Norwich ranks well for renters concerned about neighbourhood safety. Every Dwellio alert includes the area’s crime data so you can compare at a glance.
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 (68) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Violent crime (43) · pop. ~15,000
Most common: Violent crime (52) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (151) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (60) · pop. ~10,000
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 Norwich is £1,350 a month, from 1,453 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Norwich is £670 a month, 50% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 390 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Norwich is £1,200 a month, 11% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 253 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Norwich is £1,390 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 260 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Norwich is £2,300 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 510 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Norwich is £600 a month, from 75 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 1,528 rental properties available in Norwich, with 471 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Norwich has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 24 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 Norwich is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East of England
How Norwich compares with the other 20 places we track in East of England — 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 of England, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/norwich, updated 28 October 2026.
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