Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Nottingham
£750/moMedian asking rent · 1-bed · 476 live listings · October 2026The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Nottingham is £750 a month, from 476 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
Renting in Nottingham
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The median asking rent in Nottingham is £750 a month for a 1-bed (476 live listings), £990 for a 2-bed (580 live listings), £1,250 for a 3-bed (457 live listings) and £3,142 for a 4+ bed home (1,607 live listings), on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
Median asking rent
No single figure for Nottingham this month
This month it doesn’t fit the 1-, 2- and 3-bed figures, which usually means large student houses dominate the listings. The figures by size below are not affected.
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £750/moasking · 476 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £990/moasking · 580 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,250/moasking · 457 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £3,142/moasking · 1,607 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £575/moasking · 105 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 Nottingham by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/nottingham, updated 29 October 2026.
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Renting in Nottingham
Nottingham currently has 3,283 rental listings on the property sites we track, 3,178 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent in Nottingham is £750 a month for a 1-bed (476 live listings), £990 for a 2-bed (580 live listings), £1,250 for a 3-bed (457 live listings) and £3,142 for a 4+ bed home (1,607 live listings), on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 1,369 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 65% 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 £750 a month in NG17 (17 live listings) to £2,687 in NG7 (1,319 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Nottingham (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 Nottingham, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Nottingham is £750 a month, from 476 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Nottingham is £990 a month, from 580 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Nottingham is £1,250 a month, from 457 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Nottingham is £3,142 a month, from 1,607 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Nottingham is £575 a month, from 105 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 Nottingham is £1,015 a month, up 1.7% 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
+1.7%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+38%
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 Nottingham 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
£26,512/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
33% of listings
62% of listings
4% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 41% of the 1,558 houses currently advertised in Nottingham.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 2,607 live listings in 16 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 Nottingham, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/nottingham, updated 29 October 2026.
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Features · Nottingham
Live signal across 3,283 Nottingham rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
79%
of 1,110 Nottingham listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
78%
of 1,188 Nottingham listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£2.39/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 323 live listings · October 2026Median 1,087 sqft across the 323 Nottingham listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
1,369 homes came onto the Nottingham rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
4 bed house
3 bed room
5 bed room
3 bed house
2 bed house
2 bed house
6 bed room
6 bed room
3 bed house

1 bed flat/apartment
Flat 1a 2 Arthur Avenue, Lenton, East Midlands, NG7

4 bed flat/apartment
Flat 1 C Arthur Avenue, Lenton, East Midlands, NG7

4 bed house
Flat 1 A Arthur Avenue, Lenton, East Midlands, NG7

1 bed flat/apartment
Flat 1b 2 Arthur Avenue, Lenton, East Midlands, NG7

6 bed semi-detached house
Rolleston Drive, Nottingham, NG7
2 bed room
3 bed house
3 bed house
3 bed house
4 bed room
3 bed house
2 bed house
2 bed flat/apartment
3 bed house
2 bed house
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Nottingham. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Nottingham homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 146,610 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
1.71
≈ Band A–B
Stock
147k
146,610 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
85% of Nottingham premises can already get full-fibre and 97% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
85%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
97%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
489 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Nottingham), July 2025, covering 136,074 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
44% of Nottingham 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
44%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
56%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
155k
154,944 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Nottingham. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
12 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Nottingham centroid. The five closest:
Denewood Academy
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision sponsor led · NG7 4ES
Unity Academy
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision sponsor led · NG7 4ES
Stone Soup Academy
Not applicable · Free schools alternative provision · NG1 1HN
Bluecoat Bentinck Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · NG7 4AA
Huntingdon Academy
Primary · Academy converter · NG3 4AY
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Nottingham 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), Nottingham has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 39 of 39 postcode districts analysed, the median was 255 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Nottingham is Violent crime, accounting for 19% of all incidents.
Nottingham’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 (71) · pop. ~47,000
Most common: Shoplifting (95) · pop. ~37,000
Most common: Violent crime (181) · pop. ~12,000
Most common: Violent crime (75) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (86) · pop. ~11,000
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 in Nottingham is £750 a month for a 1-bed (476 live listings), £990 for a 2-bed (580 live listings), £1,250 for a 3-bed (457 live listings) and £3,142 for a 4+ bed home (1,607 live listings), on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
This month it doesn’t fit the 1-, 2- and 3-bed figures, which usually means large student houses dominate the listings. The median asking rents by size are not affected.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Nottingham is £750 a month, from 476 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Nottingham is £990 a month, from 580 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Nottingham is £1,250 a month, from 457 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Nottingham is £3,142 a month, from 1,607 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Nottingham is £575 a month, from 105 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 3,283 rental properties available in Nottingham, with 1,369 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Nottingham has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 255 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 Nottingham is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East Midlands
How Nottingham compares with the other 14 places we track in East Midlands — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across East Midlands, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/nottingham, updated 29 October 2026.
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