Renting in Taunton
Median asking rent · all sizes · 265 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Taunton before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Taunton is £1,100 a month, from 265 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £900/moasking · 82 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,100/moasking · 104 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,450/moasking · 36 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,900/moasking · 24 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £700/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 Taunton by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/taunton, updated 28 October 2026.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit Dwellio and link to this page. How we measure this
Free to sign up · no card needed · upgrade when you’re ready
Renting in Taunton
Taunton currently has 291 rental listings on the property sites we track, 265 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Taunton is £1,100 a month, from 265 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 90 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 37% 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 £1,100 a month in TA1 (130 live listings) to £1,200 in TA4 (6 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Taunton (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.
Dwellio watches Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders for Taunton around the clock — so a new listing reaches your inbox before most renters have refreshed the app. Here’s how our rental alerts work. Looking further afield? You can browse rentals in every UK city.
Found one you like? Agents in Taunton shortlist from the first applicants who look ready to go, so have your documents to hand before you enquire — our free tenant CV and offer letter generator writes both from a few details.
Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Taunton, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Taunton is £900 a month, 18% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 82 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Taunton is £1,100 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 104 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Taunton is £1,450 a month, 32% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 36 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Taunton is £1,900 a month, 73% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 24 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Taunton is £700 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
Free monthly digest
One email a month: what the median rent did, which postcodes moved, and how much came to market. Built from live listings across six UK property sites. No card, no account, unsubscribe anytime.
We’ll email you once to confirm. See our privacy policy.
Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in Somerset is £1,021 a month, up 6.3% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). Somerset is the ONS area that covers Taunton. 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
+6.3%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+34%
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
55% of listings
32% of listings
12% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 43% of the 75 houses currently advertised in Taunton.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 191 live listings in 3 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 Taunton, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/taunton, updated 28 October 2026.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit Dwellio and link to this page. How we measure this
Features · Taunton
Live signal across 291 Taunton rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
75%
of 89 Taunton listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
83%
of 113 Taunton listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
90 homes came onto the Taunton rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Sussex Lodge, Taunton TA1
3 bed property
Eastbourne Road, Taunton TA1
4 bed room
2 bed house
1 bed flat/apartment
3 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
Kingston Road, Taunton, TA2
3 bed property
Beechfields, Somerset, TA1
2 bed flat/apartment
High Street, Taunton, TA1
1 bed flat/apartment
Cheddon Road, Taunton
1 bed room
Stephen St, Taunton, TA1
2 bed flat/apartment
Park Street, Taunton, TA1
2 bed house
Orchid Close, Taunton TA1
2 bed flat/apartment
Hamilton Court, Taunton, TA1
2 bed flat/apartment
Monmouth Court, Bindon Road, TAUNTON TA2
2 bed flat/apartment
Mount House, The Mount, Taunton, Somerset, TA1
1 bed property
South Street, Taunton TA1
2 bed terraced house
Clover Mead, Taunton TA1
1 bed flat/apartment
Sussex Lodge, Taunton
2 bed flat/apartment
French Weir Close, Taunton, Somerset, TA1
1 bed flat/apartment
Lock House, Somerset TA1
3 bed terraced house
Queens Gate Terrace, Taunton, TA1
1 bed flat/apartment
Landsdown House, Taunton, TA1
2 bed semi-detached house
Roman Road, Taunton, TA1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Taunton. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
How it works
Four steps between you and never missing a good one in Taunton.
Pop in your budget, bed count and favourite corners of Taunton. A minute, tops.
Six major sites, checked every couple of minutes. Yes, on Sundays too.
The moment a match appears, email arrives before most people open the app.
Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Taunton homes sit in Band B. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 270,080 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
B
most common band
Mean band
3.10
≈ Band C–D
Stock
270k
270,080 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 Taunton premises can already get full-fibre and 75% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
74%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
75%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
95%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
409 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Somerset), July 2025, covering 267,460 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
47% of Taunton 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
47%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
53%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
226k
225,613 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Somerset. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
10 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Taunton centroid. The five closest:
Parkfield Primary School
Primary · Community school · TA1 4RT
North Town Academy
Primary · Academy converter · TA1 1DF
St George's Catholic School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · TA1 3NR
The Castle School
Secondary · Academy converter · TA1 5AU
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · TA1 3AF
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Taunton 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: Shoplifting (93) · pop. ~2,500
Most common: Violent crime (69) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Violent crime (132) · pop. ~3,000
Most common: Violent crime (125) · pop. ~4,000
Most common: Violent crime (155) · pop. ~4,000
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.
Where we search
We watch 6 property sites for rentals in Taunton.
Start getting alerts
Free to sign up — no card needed. We’ll email the moment a matching rental goes live in Taunton.
Dwellio
Alerts that land before the rush.
Frequently asked
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Taunton is £1,100 a month, from 265 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Taunton is £900 a month, 18% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 82 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Taunton is £1,100 a month, in line with the median for homes of all sizes, from 104 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Taunton is £1,450 a month, 32% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 36 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Taunton is £1,900 a month, 73% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 24 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Taunton is £700 a month, from 26 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 291 rental properties available in Taunton, with 90 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across South West
How Taunton compares with the other 17 places we track in South 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 South West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/taunton, updated 28 October 2026.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit Dwellio and link to this page. How we measure this
Compare across the UK
See how Taunton compares with the UK’s largest rental markets — median rents, area data and live alerts for each.
Renting guides
Guides on covering every portal and reaching new Taunton listings first.
Best property alert tools in the UK
How the main rental-alert services compare on speed and portal coverage.
Read guideBest alternatives to Rightmove
The UK portals worth searching beyond Rightmove — and what each one adds.
Read guideRightmove vs Zoopla vs OnTheMarket
What each portal covers, where the gaps are, and how to stop missing listings.
Read guideFree to sign up. No card needed. Cancel anytime.
Start free