Renting in Telford
Median asking rent · all sizes · 503 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Telford is £925 a month, from 503 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £695/moasking · 137 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £895/moasking · 146 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,100/moasking · 155 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,450/moasking · 54 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £578/moasking · 64 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 Telford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/telford, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Telford
Telford currently has 567 rental listings on the property sites we track, 503 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Telford is £925 a month, from 503 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 81 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 69% 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 £650 a month in WV14 (3 live listings) to £1,400 in WV99 (3 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Telford (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 Telford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Telford is £695 a month, 25% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 137 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Telford is £895 a month, 3% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 146 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Telford is £1,100 a month, 19% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 155 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Telford is £1,450 a month, 57% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 54 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Telford is £578 a month, from 64 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 Telford is £861 a month, up 6.3% 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
+6.3%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+33%
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 Telford spend an estimated 33% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£31,459/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
33%
Affordable for most renters.
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
26% of listings
59% of listings
14% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 41% of the 280 houses currently advertised in Telford.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 402 live listings in 11 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 Telford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/telford, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Telford
Live signal across 567 Telford 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 113 Telford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
91%
of 135 Telford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£1.48/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 59 live listings · October 2026Median 743 sqft across the 59 Telford listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
81 homes came onto the Telford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
2 bed property
Holly Road, Little Dawley, Telford, Shropshire TF4
1 bed property
Boulton Grange, Randlay, Telford TF3
3 bed property
Stonedale, Sutton Hill TF7
3 bed property
Waltondale, Telford TF7
3 bed property
Hengrave Meadow, Newdale TF3
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, St. Georges, TF2
3 bed detached house
10 Calluna Drive, Telford
3 bed terraced house
Stonedale, Telford TF7
3 bed terraced house
Waltondale, Telford TF7
2 bed flat/apartment
Holly Road, Little Dawley, Telford, Shropshire, TF4
2 bed semi-detached house
Fountain Drive, St Georges, Telford
2 bed semi-detached house
Mercia Drive, Telford
4 bed semi-detached house
Blockley Road, Telford, TF1
2 bed terraced house
Greenwood Drive, Shawbirch
2 bed flat/apartment
5a Forester Grove, Arleston
4 bed terraced house
Highlander Drive, TELFORD, TF2
4 bed terraced house
Birchfield Way, Lawley, Telford
2 bed semi-detached house
St. Aubin Drive, Shropshire TF4
3 bed terraced house
Ketley Park Road, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire, TF1
4 bed semi-detached house
The Incline, Telford TF1
1 bed terraced house
Walker Street, Telford TF1
3 bed property
Harding Wood, Telford, TF4
3 bed semi-detached house
Roseway, Telford, TF1
2 bed property
King Charles Barns Church Street, Madeley, Telford TF7
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Telford. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Telford homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 83,280 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.49
≈ Band B–C
Stock
83k
83,280 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
47% of Telford premises can already get full-fibre and 88% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
47%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
88%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
461 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Telford and Wrekin), July 2025, covering 83,711 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
59% of Telford 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
59%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
41%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
74k
73,508 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Telford and Wrekin. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
6 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Telford centroid. The five closest:
Old Park Primary School
Primary · Community school · TF3 2BF
Hollinswood Primary School
Primary · Community school · TF3 2EP
Lantern Academy
Primary · Academy converter · TF2 0AZ
Kickstart Academy
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision sponsor led · TF2 9PQ
Randlay Primary School
Primary · Community school · TF3 2LR
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Telford 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), Telford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 32 of 32 postcode districts analysed, the median was 79 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Telford is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Telford 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.
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 (82) · pop. ~25,000
Most common: Violent crime (61) · pop. ~9,000
Most common: Violent crime (103) · pop. ~18,000
Most common: Violent crime (100) · pop. ~11,000
Most common: Violent crime (74) · pop. ~10,000
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 Telford is £925 a month, from 503 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Telford is £695 a month, 25% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 137 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Telford is £895 a month, 3% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 146 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Telford is £1,100 a month, 19% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 155 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Telford is £1,450 a month, 57% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 54 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Telford is £578 a month, from 64 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 567 rental properties available in Telford, with 81 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Telford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 79 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 Telford is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across West Midlands
How Telford 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/telford, updated 28 October 2026.
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