Renting in Salford
Median asking rent · all sizes · 704 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Salford before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Salford is £1,250 a month, from 704 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,100/moasking · 218 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,300/moasking · 328 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,650/moasking · 93 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,950/moasking · 28 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £678/moasking · 42 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 Salford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/salford, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Salford
Salford currently has 746 rental listings on the property sites we track, 704 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Salford is £1,250 a month, from 704 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 403 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 13% 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 £950 a month in M30 (9 live listings) to £1,475 in M28 (6 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Salford (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 Salford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Salford is £1,100 a month, 12% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 218 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Salford is £1,300 a month, 4% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 328 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Salford is £1,650 a month, 32% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 93 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Salford is £1,950 a month, 56% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 28 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Salford is £678 a month, from 42 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 Salford is £1,173 a month, up 3.1% 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
+3.1%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+46%
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 Salford 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
£30,495/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
81% of listings
13% of listings
6% of listings
0% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 58% of the 88 houses currently advertised in Salford.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 647 live listings in 10 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 Salford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/salford, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Salford
Live signal across 746 Salford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
93%
of 59 Salford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
90%
of 106 Salford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£2.13/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 156 live listings · October 2026Median 689 sqft across the 156 Salford listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
403 homes came onto the Salford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed flat/apartment
at Nationwide, 45 Empyrean, Block 1 M7
2 bed terraced house
Quarry Pond Road, Manchester M28
1 bed flat/apartment
Colliers Yard, 7 Bankside Boulevard, Salford, M3
2 bed flat/apartment
Colliers Yard, Salford, Greater Manchester, M3
1 bed flat/apartment
at Nationwide, 7, 30 Aqueduct Way M30
2 bed flat/apartment
at Nationwide, 29 Empyrean, Block 3 M7
2 bed flat/apartment
Dean Road, Salford M3
1 bed room
Pembroke Street, Salford, M6
2 bed flat/apartment
at Clippers Quay, Apartment 804 Ambassador Apartments, Waterman Walk M50
3 bed flat/apartment
Great Clowes Street, Salford M7
2 bed flat/apartment
Apartment 1301, Lamp House, 215 Chapel Street M3
2 bed terraced house
at Nationwide, 51 Quarrymans View, Worsley M28
2 bed flat/apartment
Ordsall Lane, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5
2 bed flat/apartment
Commerce Quay, 221-223 Ordsall Lane, Salford
2 bed flat/apartment
at Nationwide, 9 Empyrean, Block 2 M7
1 bed flat/apartment
at Nationwide, 58 Empyrean, Block 6 M7
3 bed semi-detached house
Oaklands Road, Salford, M7
1 bed flat/apartment
Grant Court Block A, 257 Ordsall Lane, Salford, M5
4 bed terraced house
Manchester Road, Worsley, Manchester, M28
2 bed flat/apartment
Apartment 1007, Halogen House, 217 Chapel Street M3
1 bed flat/apartment
Cheltenham Place, Frederick Road, Salford
3 bed flat/apartment
at Clippers Quay, Apartment 817 Torrens Apartments, Waterman Walk M50
2 bed flat/apartment
Bridgewater Point, Ordsall Lane, Salford, M5
2 bed flat/apartment
Ordsall Lane, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Salford homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 134,060 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.04
≈ Band B–C
Stock
134k
134,060 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
87% of Salford premises can already get full-fibre and 94% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
87%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
94%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
98%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
477 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Salford), July 2025, covering 131,101 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
63% of Salford 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
63%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
37%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
139k
138,691 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Salford. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
11 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Salford centroid. The five closest:
Acer Academy, Salford
Not applicable · Free schools special · M5 5DP
Willow Tree Primary School
Primary · Community school · M6 5TJ
Lark Hill Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · M5 4BJ
AldridgeUTC@MediaCityUK
Secondary · University technical college · M50 2UW
Holy Family VA RC Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · M6 5WX
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Salford 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), Salford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 72 of 72 postcode districts analysed, the median was 24 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Salford is Violent crime, accounting for 1% of all incidents.
Salford 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.
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Salford is £1,250 a month, from 704 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Salford is £1,100 a month, 12% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 218 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Salford is £1,300 a month, 4% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 328 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Salford is £1,650 a month, 32% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 93 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Salford is £1,950 a month, 56% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 28 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Salford is £678 a month, from 42 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 746 rental properties available in Salford, with 403 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Salford 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 Salford is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across North West
How Salford compares with the other 24 places we track in North West — 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 North West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/salford, updated 27 October 2026.
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