Renting in Rochdale
Median asking rent · all sizes · 407 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Rochdale is £995 a month, from 407 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £845/moasking · 57 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £895/moasking · 184 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,200/moasking · 115 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,325/moasking · 20 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £550/moasking · 26 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 Rochdale by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/rochdale, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Rochdale
Rochdale currently has 433 rental listings on the property sites we track, 407 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Rochdale is £995 a month, from 407 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 60 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 £825 a month in OL15 (15 live listings) to £1,050 in OL16 (141 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Rochdale (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 Rochdale, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Rochdale is £845 a month, 15% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 57 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Rochdale is £895 a month, 10% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 184 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Rochdale is £1,200 a month, 21% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 115 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Rochdale is £1,325 a month, 33% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 20 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Rochdale is £550 a month, from 26 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 Rochdale is £859 a month, up 8.8% 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
+8.8%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+49%
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 Rochdale spend an estimated 35% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£29,535/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
35%
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
30% of listings
61% of listings
7% of listings
2% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 62% of the 229 houses currently advertised in Rochdale.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 335 live listings in 6 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 Rochdale, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/rochdale, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Rochdale
Live signal across 433 Rochdale rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
81%
of 139 Rochdale listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
82%
of 157 Rochdale listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
60 homes came onto the Rochdale rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Whalley Road, OL10
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Newchurch St, OL11
2 bed semi-detached house
2 Bed Semi-Detached House, Denehurst Road, OL11
4 bed terraced house
4 Bed Terraced House, Holmes Street, OL12
2 bed flat/apartment
at Property Sense, Apt 02011, New Baillie Street OL16
1 bed flat/apartment
at Property Sense, Apt 2009, New Baillie Street OL16
3 bed terraced house
at Nationwide, 18 Kingfisher Drive OL16
2 bed semi-detached house
Denehurst Road, Rochdale, OL11
2 bed flat/apartment
at Property Sense, Apt 06011, New Baillie Street OL16
1 bed flat/apartment
at Property Sense, Apt 08012, New Baillie Street OL16
Studio flat/apartment
at Property Sense, Apt 07007, New Baillie Street OL16
2 bed terraced house
Greenbooth Road, Norden, OL12
2 bed terraced house
Moss Street, Rochdale
2 bed terraced house
Ashbrook Hey Lane, Rochdale OL12
Studio flat/apartment
at Duo at Upperbanks, Upperbanks East Block, New Baillie Street OL16
2 bed flat/apartment
at Nationwide, 10 Brook End, 22 Arkwright Avenue OL16
3 bed terraced house
at Nationwide, 189 Milkstone Road OL11
1 bed terraced house
Oldham Road, Rochdale OL11
3 bed terraced house
at Nationwide, 13 Arkwright Avenue OL16
1 bed property
Hollingworth Lake Caravan Park.
2 bed flat/apartment
at Nationwide, 2 Brook End, 22 Arkwright Avenue OL16
2 bed flat/apartment
at Duo at Upperbanks, Upperbanks West Block, New Baillie Street OL16
1 bed flat/apartment
at Duo at Upperbanks, Upperbanks West Block, New Baillie Street OL16
1 bed flat/apartment
New Baillie Street, Rochdale, OL16
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Rochdale homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 97,470 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.03
≈ Band B–C
Stock
97k
97,470 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
74% of Rochdale premises can already get full-fibre and 90% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
74%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
90%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
471 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Rochdale), July 2025, covering 98,250 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
48% of Rochdale 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
48%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
52%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
85k
84,961 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Rochdale. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
14 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Rochdale centroid. The five closest:
Broadfield Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · OL16 1QT
Rochdale Sixth Form College
16 plus · Academy 16-19 converter · OL12 6HY
Howard Street Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · OL12 0PP
St John's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · OL11 1EZ
Spotland Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · OL12 6QG
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Rochdale centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Rochdale is £995 a month, from 407 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Rochdale is £845 a month, 15% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 57 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Rochdale is £895 a month, 10% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 184 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Rochdale is £1,200 a month, 21% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 115 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Rochdale is £1,325 a month, 33% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 20 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Rochdale is £550 a month, from 26 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 433 rental properties available in Rochdale, with 60 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across North West
How Rochdale compares with the other 24 places we track in North West — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across North West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/rochdale, updated 28 October 2026.
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