Renting in Shrewsbury
Median asking rent · all sizes · 248 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Shrewsbury is £995 a month, from 248 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £800/moasking · 52 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £900/moasking · 88 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,250/moasking · 69 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,700/moasking · 33 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £600/moasking · 69 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 Shrewsbury by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/shrewsbury, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury currently has 317 rental listings on the property sites we track, 248 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Shrewsbury is £995 a month, from 248 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 34 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 £725 a month in SY16 (3 live listings) to £1,300 in SY5 (3 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Shrewsbury (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 Shrewsbury, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Shrewsbury is £800 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 52 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Shrewsbury is £900 a month, 10% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 88 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Shrewsbury is £1,250 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 69 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Shrewsbury is £1,700 a month, 71% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 33 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Shrewsbury is £600 a month, from 69 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 Shropshire is £828 a month, up 4.8% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). Shropshire is the ONS area that covers Shrewsbury. 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
+4.8%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+31%
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
Property types
29% of listings
44% of listings
25% of listings
2% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 39% of the 127 houses currently advertised in Shrewsbury.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 191 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 Shrewsbury, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/shrewsbury, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Shrewsbury
Live signal across 317 Shrewsbury rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
77%
of 77 Shrewsbury listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
78%
of 83 Shrewsbury listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£1.50/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 41 live listings · October 2026Median 764 sqft across the 41 Shrewsbury listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
34 homes came onto the Shrewsbury rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Belle Vue Road, SY3
2 bed flat/apartment
Castle Gates, Shrewsbury
4 bed detached house
Gorse Lane, Shrewsbury
2 bed flat/apartment
Dunwoody Court, Hearne Way, Monkmoor, Shrewsbury, SY2
3 bed semi-detached house
Sutton Road, Sutton Farm, Shrewsbury, SY2
4 bed terraced house
191 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AH
3 bed semi-detached house
41 Greenfield Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2PY
2 bed semi-detached house
12 Bromley Road, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury
3 bed semi-detached house
12 Conway Drive, Telford Estate, Shrewsbury, SY2 5UB
2 bed flat/apartment
St Julians Mews, St Julians Friars, Shrewsbury
3 bed semi-detached house
Bligny Crescent, Rose Place, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury
3 bed semi-detached house
Fox Avenue, The Spinney, Shrewsbury
4 bed semi-detached house
Porthill Drive, Copthorne, Shrewsbury
2 bed flat/apartment
2-5 Claremont Buildings, Claremont Bank, Shrewsbury
3 bed semi-detached house
12 Conway Drive, Telford Estate, Shrewsbury, SY2 5UB
2 bed semi-detached house
12 Bromley Road, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury
3 bed semi-detached house
41 Greenfield Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2PY
2 bed terraced house
Hallcroft Court, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
2 bed flat/apartment
2-5 Claremont Buildings, Claremont Bank, Shrewsbury
Studio flat/apartment
Briery Lane, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY3
4 bed semi-detached house
Porthill Drive, Copthorne, Shrewsbury
3 bed semi-detached house
Fox Avenue, The Spinney, Shrewsbury
3 bed semi-detached house
Overdale Road, Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY3
2 bed terraced house
Hills Lane, Mardol, Town Centre, Shrewsbury, SY1
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Shrewsbury homes sit in Band B. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 151,230 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
B
most common band
Mean band
3.08
≈ Band C–D
Stock
151k
151,230 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
73% of Shrewsbury premises can already get full-fibre and 74% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
73%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
74%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
92%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
402 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Shropshire), July 2025, covering 148,998 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
42% of Shrewsbury 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
42%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
58%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
121k
121,371 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Shropshire. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
4 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Shrewsbury centroid. The five closest:
Coleham Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · SY3 7EN
Woodfield Infant School & Nursery
Primary · Academy converter · SY3 8LU
St George's Junior School
Primary · Academy converter · SY3 8LU
Greenfields Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · SY1 2AH
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Shrewsbury 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), Shrewsbury has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 19 of 19 postcode districts analysed, the median was 98 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Shrewsbury is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Shrewsbury’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
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 (118) · pop. ~4,000
Most common: Violent crime (67) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (70) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (30) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (58) · pop. ~5,000
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 for homes of all sizes in Shrewsbury is £995 a month, from 248 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Shrewsbury is £800 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 52 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Shrewsbury is £900 a month, 10% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 88 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Shrewsbury is £1,250 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 69 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Shrewsbury is £1,700 a month, 71% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 33 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Shrewsbury is £600 a month, from 69 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 317 rental properties available in Shrewsbury, with 34 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Shrewsbury has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 98 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Shrewsbury is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across West Midlands
How Shrewsbury compares with the other 22 places we track in West Midlands — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across West Midlands, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/shrewsbury, updated 28 October 2026.
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