Renting in Telford

Average Rent in Telford: £900/mo

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Median asking rent across 2,519 live Telford listings on 6 portals from £400/mo, broken down by property size below — plus how rents have moved, where they are highest and lowest, and what landed on the market this week.

Median asking rent

£900 /month

2,519 live listings · 6 portals

Median monthly rent in Telford by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£675/mo	64
1 bed	£695/mo	500
2 bed	£875/mo	707
3 bed	£1,100/mo	767
4+ bed	£1,450/mo	227
Room (house share)	£550/mo	254

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 12 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Telford

What it costs to rent in Telford

Telford currently has 2,519 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £900 a month. 71 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 72% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is WS2 at around £600/mo, while WS6 sits nearer £1,400/mo. 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 Telford 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.

Rent by property size

Average rent in Telford by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 2,519 live listings across 6 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Telford

£675/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Telford is £675 a month, 25% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 64 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Telford

£695/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Telford is £695 a month, 23% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 500 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Telford

£875/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Telford is £875 a month, 3% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 707 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Telford

£1,100/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Telford is £1,100 a month, 22% above the city-wide median of £900, based on 767 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Telford

£1,450/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Telford is £1,450 a month, 61% above the city-wide median of £900, based on 227 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Telford

£550/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Telford house share is £550 a month, 39% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 254 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property.

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Rent trend · ONS PIPR

How Telford rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Telford. Latest: £861/mo (Jul 26, +7.1% YoY).

Latest

£861

Jul 26

Annual

+7.1%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£645

Aug 21

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.

Affordability · ONS ASHE

What share of Telford pay goes on rent?

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 rent

£861/mo

£10,332/yr

Median pay

£31,459/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

33%

Affordable for most renters.

0%30% threshold80%

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.

Property types

What’s on offer in Telford

Flats & apartments

421

24% of listings

Houses

1064

60% of listings

Rooms

254

14% of listings

Bungalows

2% of listings

Property mix · houses

Houses to rent in Telford — what's on the market

Terraced houses make up 37% of the 1,098 houses currently advertised in Telford.

Terraced
37%402
Semi-detached
36%394
Other house
13%142
Detached
11%126
Bungalow
3%34

Rent by postcode

Where Telford rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 1,861 live listings in 40 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Telford

1WS6£1,400/mo5 rentals
2TF6£1,250/mo13 rentals
3ST19£1,223/mo4 rentals

Cheapest in Telford

1WS2£600/mo8 rentals
2WV13£750/mo18 rentals
3WV1£825/mo33 rentals

Features · Telford

Garden, parking, and floor area in Telford

Live signal across 2,519 Telford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

95%

of 275 Telford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

95%

of 350 Telford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Telford this week

71 homes came onto the Telford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.

71 new this weekUpdated today

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Telford

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

most common band

Mean band

2.49

≈ Band B–C

Stock

83k

83,280 properties

A
32%26,850
B
27%22,580
C
17%14,530
D
12%9,870
E
7%5,720
F
3%2,500
G
1%1,180
H
0%50

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

Broadband coverage across Telford

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

Full fibre (FTTP)
47%
Gigabit-capable
88%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
99%

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

EPC ratings for Telford homes

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

A
1%922
B
20%14,867
C
37%27,254
D
32%23,472
E
8%5,650
F
1%1,039
G
0%304

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

State-funded schools near Telford

6 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Telford centroid. The five closest:

1
Old Park Primary School
Primary · Community school · TF3 2BF
0.35 mi
2
Hollinswood Primary School
Primary · Community school · TF3 2EP
0.58 mi
3
Lantern Academy
Primary · Academy converter · TF2 0AZ
0.74 mi
4
Kickstart Academy
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision sponsor led · TF2 9PQ
0.77 mi
5
Randlay Primary School
Primary · Community school · TF3 2LR
0.90 mi

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

Safety in Telford

Lower Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Telford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 32 of 32 postcode districts analysed, the median was 77 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Telford is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.

Crime overview

77 crimes per area (median)
32 of 32 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Anti-social behaviour
0% of 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

Safety by suburb in Telford

Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for July 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.

Wellington has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Telford.

Wellington
Safer area
Most common: Violent crime (96) · pop. ~25,000
9.2
per 1k
Oakengates
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (77) · pop. ~9,000
21
per 1k
Madeley
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (117) · pop. ~18,000
14
per 1k
Dawley
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (89) · pop. ~11,000
16
per 1k
Donnington
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (67) · pop. ~10,000
16
per 1k

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

Telford listings by portal

We watch 6 property sites for rentals in Telford.

Rightmove

869

PrimeLocation

582

OnTheMarket

570

SpareRoom

254

OpenRent

195

Leaders

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Frequently asked

Renting in Telford — your questions answered

How much is rent in Telford?

The average (median) asking rent in Telford is £900 a month — a 1-bed is £695 and a 2-bed £875, based on 2,519 live listings across 6 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Telford?

The median asking rent for a studio in Telford is £675 a month, 25% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 64 studios currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 1-bed flat in Telford?

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Telford is £695 a month, 23% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 500 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Telford?

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Telford is £875 a month, 3% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 707 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 3-bed house in Telford?

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Telford is £1,100 a month, 22% above the city-wide median of £900, based on 767 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 4-bed house in Telford?

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Telford is £1,450 a month, 61% above the city-wide median of £900, based on 227 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Telford?

The median asking rent for a room in a Telford house share is £550 a month, 39% below the city-wide median of £900, based on 254 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Telford?

There are currently 2,519 rental properties available in Telford, with 71 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Telford safe for renters?

Telford has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 77 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Telford?

The most commonly reported crime category in Telford is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

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