Renting in Oxford

Average Rent in Oxford by Bedroom

Rent in Oxford before the rush.

The median asking rent in Oxford is £1,400 a month for a 1-bed (336 live listings), £1,900 for a 2-bed (265 live listings), £2,250 for a 3-bed (237 live listings) and £3,790 for a 4+ bed home (785 live listings), on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

Median asking rent

No single figure for Oxford 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.

Median asking rent in Oxford by property size, October 2026
SizeMedian asking rent
1-bed£1,400/moasking · 336 listings · Oct 2026
2-bed£1,900/moasking · 265 listings · Oct 2026
3-bed£2,250/moasking · 237 listings · Oct 2026
4+ bed£3,790/moasking · 785 listings · Oct 2026
Room in a shared house£800/moasking · 85 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 Oxford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/oxford, updated 28 October 2026.

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Renting in Oxford

What it costs to rent in Oxford

Oxford currently has 1,793 rental listings on the property sites we track, 1,708 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent in Oxford is £1,400 a month for a 1-bed (336 live listings), £1,900 for a 2-bed (265 live listings), £2,250 for a 3-bed (237 live listings) and £3,790 for a 4+ bed home (785 live listings), on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 704 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 60% 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 £2,295 a month in OX3 (269 live listings) to £3,000 in OX1 (274 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Oxford (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

Average rent in Oxford by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Oxford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Oxford

£1,400/moMedian asking rent · 1-bed · 336 live listings · October 2026

The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Oxford is £1,400 a month, from 336 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

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

£1,900/moMedian asking rent · 2-bed · 265 live listings · October 2026

The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Oxford is £1,900 a month, from 265 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Oxford

£2,250/moMedian asking rent · 3-bed · 237 live listings · October 2026

The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Oxford is £2,250 a month, from 237 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Oxford

£3,790/moMedian asking rent · 4+ bed · 785 live listings · October 2026

The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Oxford is £3,790 a month, from 785 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

Average room rent in Oxford

£800/moMedian asking rent · room in a shared house · 85 live listings · October 2026

The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Oxford is £800 a month, from 85 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

How Oxford rents have moved

The ONS average rent paid in Oxford is £1,957 a month, up 2.4% 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.

Latest£1,957/moONS average rent paid · all sizes · Oxford · September 2026

Annual

+2.4%

vs a year earlier

5 years earlier£1,469/moONS average rent paid · all sizes · Oxford · October 2021

Total change

+33%

since 2021

£1,475£1,725£1,975Oct 21Apr 24Sept 26
ONS average rent paid · all sizes · Oxford · October 2021 to September 2026

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

What share of Oxford pay goes on rent?

Renters in Oxford spend an estimated 64% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).

Average rent paid£1,957/mo£23,484 a yearONS average rent paid · all sizes · Oxford · September 2026

Median pay

£36,517/yr

Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025

Rent burden

64%

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. How we measure this

Property types

What’s on offer in Oxford

Flats & apartments

460

37% of listings

Houses

704

56% of listings

Rooms

85

7% of listings

Bungalows

9

1% of listings

How we measure this

Property mix · houses

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

Other house houses make up 42% of the 713 houses currently advertised in Oxford.

  • Other house
    42%297
  • Terraced
    32%228
  • Semi-detached
    21%147
  • Detached
    4%32
  • Bungalow
    1%9

How we measure this

Rent by postcode

Where Oxford rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 1,204 live listings in 4 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.

Most expensive in Oxford

  1. 1OX1£3,000/moall sizes · asking · Oct 2026274 live listings
  2. 2OX4£2,900/moall sizes · asking · Oct 2026440 live listings
  3. 3OX2£2,300/moall sizes · asking · Oct 2026219 live listings

Cheapest in Oxford

  1. 1OX3£2,295/moall sizes · asking · Oct 2026269 live listings
  2. 2OX2£2,300/moall sizes · asking · Oct 2026219 live listings
  3. 3OX4£2,900/moall sizes · asking · Oct 2026440 live listings

Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in Oxford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/oxford, updated 28 October 2026.

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Features · Oxford

Garden, parking, and floor area in Oxford

Live signal across 1,793 Oxford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

90%

of 551 Oxford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

79%

of 543 Oxford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

How we measure this

Live from the portals

New rentals in Oxford this week

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

704 new this weekUpdated today
  1. 1 bed property for rent in Princes Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4
    £1,000/moPrimeLocation

    1 bed property

    Princes Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4

    1View listing
  2. 2 bed property for rent in Citygate, 78 St. Clements Street, Oxford OX4
    £1,900/moPrimeLocation

    2 bed property

    Citygate, 78 St. Clements Street, Oxford OX4

    2View listing
  3. 1 bed property for rent in Walton Crescent, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1
    £1,900/moPrimeLocation

    1 bed property

    Walton Crescent, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1

    1View listing
  4. 3 bed property for rent in Bulan Road, Oxford OX3
    £2,100/moPrimeLocation

    3 bed property

    Bulan Road, Oxford OX3

    3View listing
  5. 1 bed property for rent in Bardwell Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2
    £2,150/moPrimeLocation

    1 bed property

    Bardwell Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2

    1View listing
  6. 3 bed property for rent in Great Mead, Oxford OX1
    £3,000/moPrimeLocation

    3 bed property

    Great Mead, Oxford OX1

    3View listing
  7. 5 bed property for rent in Hurst Street, Oxford OX4
    £3,940/moPrimeLocation

    5 bed property

    Hurst Street, Oxford OX4

    5View listing
  8. 5 bed property for rent in Bagley Wood Road, Kennington, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1
    £4,000/moPrimeLocation

    5 bed property

    Bagley Wood Road, Kennington, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1

    5View listing
  9. 6 bed property for rent in Crown Street, Oxford OX4
    £4,700/moPrimeLocation

    6 bed property

    Crown Street, Oxford OX4

    6View listing
  10. 6 bed property for rent in Divinity Road, Oxford OX4
    £4,800/moPrimeLocation

    6 bed property

    Divinity Road, Oxford OX4

    6View listing
  11. 4 bed property for rent in St John Street, Oxford OX1
    £5,000/moPrimeLocation

    4 bed property

    St John Street, Oxford OX1

    4View listing
  12. 5 bed property for rent in Bartlemas Road, East Oxford OX4
    £5,000/moPrimeLocation

    5 bed property

    Bartlemas Road, East Oxford OX4

    5View listing
  13. 5 bed property for rent in East Avenue, Oxford OX4
    £4,200/moPrimeLocation

    5 bed property

    East Avenue, Oxford OX4

    5View listing
  14. 3 bed property for rent in South Street, Oxford OX2
    £2,400/moPrimeLocation

    3 bed property

    South Street, Oxford OX2

    3View listing
  15. 1 bed property for rent in Cowley Road, Oxford OX4
    £1,275/moPrimeLocation

    1 bed property

    Cowley Road, Oxford OX4

    1View listing
  16. 1 bed flat/apartment for rent in Oxford
    £4,545/moOpenRent

    1 bed flat/apartment

    11View listing
  17. 1 bed flat/apartment for rent in Oxford
    £1,700/moOpenRent

    1 bed flat/apartment

    11View listing
  18. 2 bed house for rent in Oxford
    £2,400/moOpenRent

    2 bed house

    21View listing
  19. £400/moOpenRent

    3 bed room

    32View listing
  20. £2,300/moOpenRent

    4 bed house

    42View listing
  21. 1 bed room for rent in Oxford
    £800/moOpenRent

    1 bed room

    11View listing
  22. 2 bed room for rent in Oxford
    £750/moOpenRent

    2 bed room

    21View listing
  23. 3 bed room for rent in Oxford
    £800/moOpenRent

    3 bed room

    31View listing
  24. 3 bed room for rent in Oxford
    £600/moOpenRent

    3 bed room

    33View listing

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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

C

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. 1

    St Ebbe's Church of England Aided Primary School

    Primary · Voluntary aided school · OX1 4NA

    0.56 mi
  2. 2

    St Barnabas' Church of England Aided Primary School

    Primary · Voluntary aided school · OX2 6BN

    0.61 mi
  3. 3

    Grandpont Nursery School

    Nursery · Local authority nursery school · OX1 4QH

    0.63 mi
  4. 4

    West Oxford Community Primary School

    Primary · Community school · OX2 0BY

    0.77 mi
  5. 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 (October 2026), Oxford has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 27 of 27 postcode districts analysed, the median was 131 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Oxford is Violent crime, accounting for 9% of all incidents.

Crime overview

  • 131 crimes per area (median)
  • 27 of 27 postcode districts covered
  • Data: October 2026

Most reported

  • Violent crime
  • 9% 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 August 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 (128) · pop. ~4,000

    114
    per 1k

  • Summertown

    Safer area

    Most common: Violent crime (18) · pop. ~7,000

    8.6
    per 1k

  • Cowley

    Typical for city

    Most common: Violent crime (112) · pop. ~14,000

    26
    per 1k

  • Headington

    Safer area

    Most common: Violent crime (74) · pop. ~18,000

    11
    per 1k

  • Iffley

    Higher crime

    Most common: Violent crime (118) · pop. ~3,000

    107
    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
918
OnTheMarket
550
OpenRent
180
SpareRoom
85
PrimeLocation
60

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Frequently asked

Renting in Oxford — your questions answered

How much is rent in Oxford?

The median asking rent in Oxford is £1,400 a month for a 1-bed (336 live listings), £1,900 for a 2-bed (265 live listings), £2,250 for a 3-bed (237 live listings) and £3,790 for a 4+ bed home (785 live listings), on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

Why is there no single average rent for Oxford 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 median asking rents by size are not affected.

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

The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Oxford is £1,400 a month, from 336 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

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

The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Oxford is £1,900 a month, from 265 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

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

The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Oxford is £2,250 a month, from 237 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

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

The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Oxford is £3,790 a month, from 785 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).

What is the average room rent in Oxford?

The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Oxford is £800 a month, from 85 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).

How many rental properties are available in Oxford?

There are currently 1,793 rental properties available in Oxford, with 704 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 131 reported crimes per postcode area (October 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 October 2026.

Across South East

Average rent across South East

How Oxford 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/oxford, updated 28 October 2026.

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