Renting in St Albans
Median asking rent · all sizes · 231 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in St Albans is £1,850 a month, from 231 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,400/moasking · 75 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,900/moasking · 76 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £2,700/moasking · 43 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £4,200/moasking · 23 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 St Albans by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/st-albans, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in St Albans
St Albans currently has 231 rental listings on the property sites we track. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in St Albans is £1,850 a month, from 231 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 171 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 39% 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 £1,700 a month in AL2 (44 live listings) to £3,800 in AL3 (21 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in St Albans (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 St Albans, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in St Albans is £1,400 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 75 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in St Albans is £1,900 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 76 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in St Albans is £2,700 a month, 46% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 43 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in St Albans is £4,200 a month, 127% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 23 live listings on three property sites (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 St Albans is £1,934 a month, up 2.7% 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
+2.7%
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
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in St Albans spend an estimated 51% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£45,543/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
51%
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
61% of listings
38% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Semi-detached houses make up 29% of the 82 houses currently advertised in St Albans.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 207 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.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in St Albans, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/st-albans, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · St Albans
Live signal across 231 St Albans rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Floor area
£2.95/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 28 live listings · October 2026Median 725 sqft across the 28 St Albans listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
171 homes came onto the St Albans rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
3 bed house
Camp View Road, ST. ALBANS
2 bed semi-detached house
Upton Avenue, St Albans, AL3
1 bed flat/apartment
Newsom Place, St. Albans, AL1
2 bed semi-detached house
Albert St, St Albans, AL1
3 bed terraced house
Spencer St, St Albans, AL3
Studio flat/apartment
Acorn Lodge, St Albans, AL2
1 bed flat/apartment
Lye Lane, St Albans, AL2
5 bed semi-detached house
The Ridgeway, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4
1 bed flat/apartment
Baytree Close, Park Street, AL2
2 bed flat/apartment
Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1
1 bed flat/apartment
Grosvenor Road, ST. ALBANS
1 bed flat/apartment
Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1
3 bed detached house
Wellington Road, St Albans, AL1
1 bed flat/apartment
Granville Road, Hertfordshire AL1
1 bed room
Smug Oak Lane, Bricket Wood, St. Albans, AL2
1 bed flat/apartment
London Road St Albans AL1
1 bed flat/apartment
London Road St. Albans AL1
2 bed flat/apartment
Charrington Place St. Albans AL1
4 bed flat/apartment
Victoria Street, Hertfordshire AL1
1 bed flat/apartment
Faulkner Court, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1
4 bed terraced house
Church Crescent, St Albans, AL3
3 bed detached house
Shenley Lane, St Albans, AL2
1 bed flat/apartment
Barnet Road, London Colney, AL2
1 bed flat/apartment
Lavender Crescent
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for St Albans. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most St Albans homes sit in Band D. The weighted average works out close to Band D–E across 63,060 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
D
most common band
Mean band
4.68
≈ Band D–E
Stock
63k
63,060 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
80% of St Albans premises can already get full-fibre and 94% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
80%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
94%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
482 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (St Albans), July 2025, covering 63,013 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
49% of St Albans 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
49%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
51%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
52k
51,600 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under St Albans. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
16 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the St Albans centroid. The five closest:
Aboyne Lodge Junior Mixed and Infant School
Primary · Community school · AL3 5NL
Alban City School
Primary · Free schools · AL1 3RR
Muriel Green Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · AL3 5JB
The Abbey Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Albans
Primary · Voluntary aided school · AL1 1DQ
Maple Primary School
Primary · Community school · AL1 3SW
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the St Albans 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), St Albans has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 90 of 90 postcode districts analysed, the median was 232 reported crimes per area. The most common category in St Albans is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
St Albans’s overall figures sit above the national median, but crime varies a lot by neighbourhood. Dwellio alerts include the area’s data so you can pick the right street.
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: Anti-social behaviour (25) · pop. ~31,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (6) · pop. ~5,500
Most common: Other theft (40) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (19) · pop. ~5,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (44) · pop. ~3,000
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 St Albans is £1,850 a month, from 231 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in St Albans is £1,400 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 75 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in St Albans is £1,900 a month, 3% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 76 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in St Albans is £2,700 a month, 46% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 43 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in St Albans is £4,200 a month, 127% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 23 live listings on three property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 231 rental properties available in St Albans, with 171 new listings added in the last 7 days.
St Albans has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 232 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 St Albans is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East of England
How St Albans compares with the other 20 places we track in East of England — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across East of England, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/st-albans, updated 28 October 2026.
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