Renting in Slough
Median asking rent · all sizes · 1,253 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Slough is £1,500 a month, from 1,253 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,200/moasking · 435 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,600/moasking · 397 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £2,000/moasking · 207 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,600/moasking · 150 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £780/moasking · 100 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 Slough by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/slough, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Slough
Slough currently has 1,353 rental listings on the property sites we track, 1,253 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Slough is £1,500 a month, from 1,253 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 250 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 26% 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 £1,475 a month in SL1 (690 live listings) to £3,000 in SL6 (8 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Slough (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 Slough, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Slough is £1,200 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 435 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Slough is £1,600 a month, 7% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 397 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Slough is £2,000 a month, 33% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 207 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Slough is £2,600 a month, 73% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 150 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Slough is £780 a month, from 100 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 Slough is £1,567 a month, up 2.3% 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
+2.3%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+38%
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 Slough spend an estimated 53% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£35,521/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
53%
Expensive — half of local median pay before tax.
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
67% of listings
24% of listings
9% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 36% of the 283 houses currently advertised in Slough.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 1,039 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 Slough, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/slough, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Slough
Live signal across 1,353 Slough rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
71%
of 430 Slough listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
81%
of 585 Slough listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
250 homes came onto the Slough rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
Studio property
Martin Road, Slough SL1
2 bed property
Upton Park, Slough SL1
2 bed property
Montrose Avenue, Slough SL1
1 bed property
Chancellor House, Farnburn Avenue, Slough, Berkshire SL1
6 bed property
Gaveston Road, Slough SL2
3 bed property
Refinery Square, Stoke Gardens SL1
3 bed property
Oxlade Drive, Slough, Berkshire SL3
3 bed property
Fox Road, Slough SL3
2 bed property
Aquifer House, Exploration Way, Slough SL1
2 bed property
Refinery Square, Stoke Gardens SL1
2 bed property
Parsons Road, Langley Woods SL3
1 bed property
Refinery Square, Stoke Gardens SL1
2 bed property
Lovegrove Drive, Slough, Berkshire SL2
2 bed property
Maplin Park, Slough SL3
1 bed property
High Street, Slough, Berkshire SL1
1 bed property
Upton Road, Slough SL1
1 bed property
Rochfords Gardens, Slough SL2
1 bed property
Grays Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1
1 bed property
Keel Drive, Slough, Berkshire SL1
1 bed property
Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1
1 bed property
Keel Drive, Slough, Berkshire SL1
1 bed property
Castle Street, Slough, Berkshire SL1
Studio property
Skyline, Slough, Berkshire SL1
1 bed property
Bower Way, Cippenham, Slough SL1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Slough. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Slough homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 56,860 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.27
≈ Band C–D
Stock
57k
56,860 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
91% of Slough premises can already get full-fibre and 97% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
91%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
97%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
100%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
491 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Slough), July 2025, covering 56,174 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
54% of Slough 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
54%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
46%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
52k
51,984 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Slough. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
13 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Slough centroid. The five closest:
St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · SL1 2AR
Littledown School
Not applicable · Academy special converter · SL1 3QW
Slough and Eton Church of England Business and Enterprise College
Secondary · Academy converter · SL1 2PU
Upton Court Grammar School
Secondary · Academy converter · SL3 7PR
Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy
Secondary · Free schools · SL2 5AY
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Slough centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
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 (74) · pop. ~23,000
Most common: Violent crime (57) · pop. ~17,000
Most common: Violent crime (189) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (28) · pop. ~6,000
Most common: Violent crime (87) · pop. ~7,000
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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Frequently asked
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Slough is £1,500 a month, from 1,253 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Slough is £1,200 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 435 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Slough is £1,600 a month, 7% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 397 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Slough is £2,000 a month, 33% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 207 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Slough is £2,600 a month, 73% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 150 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Slough is £780 a month, from 100 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 1,353 rental properties available in Slough, with 250 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across South East
How Slough 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/slough, updated 28 October 2026.
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