Renting in Oxford

Average Rent in Oxford: £1,800/mo

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Median asking rent across 6,200 live Oxford listings on 5 portals from £420/mo, broken down by property size below — plus how rents have moved, where they are highest and lowest, and what landed on the market this week.

Median asking rent

£1,800 /month

6,200 live listings · 5 portals

Median monthly rent in Oxford by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£1,075/mo	366
1 bed	£1,250/mo	1,644
2 bed	£1,800/mo	1,314
3 bed	£2,100/mo	848
4+ bed	£3,250/mo	1,234
Room (house share)	£780/mo	794

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 13 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Oxford

What it costs to rent in Oxford

Oxford currently has 6,200 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £1,800 a month. 229 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 47% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is OX44 at around £1,200/mo, while OX20 sits nearer £2,950/mo. 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 Oxford 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.

Rent by property size

Average rent in Oxford by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 6,200 live listings across 5 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Oxford

£1,075/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Oxford is £1,075 a month, 40% below the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 366 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Oxford

£1,250/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Oxford is £1,250 a month, 31% below the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 1,644 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Oxford

£1,800/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Oxford is £1,800 a month, in line with the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 1,314 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Oxford

£2,100/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Oxford is £2,100 a month, 17% above the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 848 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Oxford

£3,250/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Oxford is £3,250 a month, 81% above the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 1,234 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Oxford

£780/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Oxford house share is £780 a month, 57% below the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 794 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property.

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Rent trend · ONS PIPR

How Oxford rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Oxford. Latest: £1,966/mo (Jul 26, +4.8% YoY).

Latest

£1,966

Jul 26

Annual

+4.8%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£1,464

Aug 21

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.

Affordability · ONS ASHE

What share of Oxford pay goes on rent?

Renters in Oxford spend an estimated 65% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).

Median rent

£1,966/mo

£23,592/yr

Median pay

£36,517/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

65%

Severely stretched — most local renters need a flatmate or supplement income.

0%30% threshold80%

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.

Property types

What’s on offer in Oxford

Flats & apartments

2119

44% of listings

Houses

1859

39% of listings

Rooms

794

17% of listings

Bungalows

0% of listings

Property mix · houses

Houses to rent in Oxford — what's on the market

Semi-detached houses make up 36% of the 1,877 houses currently advertised in Oxford.

Semi-detached
36%681
Terraced
34%636
Other house
19%350
Detached
10%192
Bungalow
1%18

Rent by postcode

Where Oxford rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 3,865 live listings in 15 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Oxford

1OX20£2,950/mo9 rentals
2OX29£2,500/mo6 rentals
3OX1£2,000/mo566 rentals

Cheapest in Oxford

1OX44£1,200/mo3 rentals
2OX14£1,300/mo41 rentals
3OX28£1,350/mo13 rentals

Features · Oxford

Garden, parking, and floor area in Oxford

Live signal across 6,200 Oxford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

89%

of 1,604 Oxford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

82%

of 1,853 Oxford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Oxford this week

229 homes came onto the Oxford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.

229 new this weekUpdated today

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Oxford

Most Oxford homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 63,630 properties on the council-tax list.

Modal band

most common band

Mean band

3.65

≈ Band C–D

Stock

64k

63,630 properties

A
5%3,060
B
16%9,910
C
31%19,710
D
26%16,270
E
12%7,610
F
5%3,110
G
5%3,350
H
1%610

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

Broadband coverage across Oxford

40% of Oxford premises can already get full-fibre and 80% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.

Full fibre

40%

FTTP-ready premises

Gigabit

80%

≥1Gbit/s available

Superfast

97%

≥30Mbit/s available

Mean speed

436 Mbit/s

bucket-weighted estimate

Full fibre (FTTP)
40%
Gigabit-capable
80%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
97%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Oxford), July 2025, covering 64,192 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.

Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC

EPC ratings for Oxford homes

52% of Oxford 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

52%

good energy-efficiency stock

Bands D–G

48%

below the proposed 2030 floor

Certificates

58k

58,251 EPCs

A
1%400
B
8%4,900
C
43%24,896
D
36%21,158
E
10%5,802
F
1%865
G
0%230

Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Oxford. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.

Schools · GIAS · DfE

State-funded schools near Oxford

6 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Oxford centroid. The five closest:

1
St Ebbe's Church of England Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · OX1 4NA
0.56 mi
2
St Barnabas' Church of England Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · OX2 6BN
0.61 mi
3
Grandpont Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · OX1 4QH
0.63 mi
4
West Oxford Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · OX2 0BY
0.77 mi
5
New Hinksey Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · OX1 4RQ
0.95 mi

Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Oxford centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.

Area safety

Safety in Oxford

Typical Crime Level

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Oxford has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 27 of 27 postcode districts analysed, the median was 117 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Oxford is Violent crime, accounting for 12% of all incidents.

Crime overview

117 crimes per area (median)
27 of 27 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Violent crime
12% of incidents

Oxford’s figures sit in line with the national picture. Safety varies by street as much as by city — every Dwellio alert includes the area’s data to help.

Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.

Area breakdown

Safety by suburb in Oxford

Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for July 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.

Summertown has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Oxford.

Jericho
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (119) · pop. ~4,000
129
per 1k
Summertown
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (20) · pop. ~7,000
11
per 1k
Cowley
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (123) · pop. ~14,000
27
per 1k
Headington
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (93) · pop. ~18,000
16
per 1k
Iffley
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (95) · pop. ~3,000
106
per 1k

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.

Where we search

Oxford listings by portal

We watch 5 property sites for rentals in Oxford.

Rightmove

3345

OpenRent

1115

SpareRoom

794

OnTheMarket

520

PrimeLocation

426

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Frequently asked

Renting in Oxford — your questions answered

How much is rent in Oxford?

The average (median) asking rent in Oxford is £1,800 a month — a 1-bed is £1,250 and a 2-bed £1,800, based on 6,200 live listings across 5 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Oxford?

The median asking rent for a studio in Oxford is £1,075 a month, 40% below the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 366 studios currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 1-bed flat in Oxford?

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Oxford is £1,250 a month, 31% below the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 1,644 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Oxford?

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Oxford is £1,800 a month, in line with the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 1,314 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 3-bed house in Oxford?

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Oxford is £2,100 a month, 17% above the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 848 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 4-bed house in Oxford?

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Oxford is £3,250 a month, 81% above the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 1,234 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Oxford?

The median asking rent for a room in a Oxford house share is £780 a month, 57% below the city-wide median of £1,800, based on 794 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Oxford?

There are currently 6,200 rental properties available in Oxford, with 229 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Oxford safe for renters?

Oxford has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 117 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Oxford?

The most commonly reported crime category in Oxford is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

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