Renting in Wakefield
Median asking rent · all sizes · 405 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Wakefield before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Wakefield is £850 a month, from 405 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £695/moasking · 137 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £895/moasking · 135 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,188/moasking · 66 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,400/moasking · 36 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £520/moasking · 60 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 Wakefield by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wakefield, updated 27 October 2026.
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Renting in Wakefield
Wakefield currently has 465 rental listings on the property sites we track, 405 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Wakefield is £850 a month, from 405 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 72 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 42% 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 £750 a month in WF90 (19 live listings) to £1,100 in WF4 (3 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Wakefield (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 Wakefield, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Wakefield is £695 a month, 18% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 137 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Wakefield is £895 a month, 5% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 135 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Wakefield is £1,188 a month, 40% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 66 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Wakefield is £1,400 a month, 65% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 36 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Wakefield is £520 a month, from 60 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 Wakefield is £810 a month, up 5.9% 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
+5.9%
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 Wakefield spend an estimated 32% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£29,954/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
32%
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
49% of listings
35% of listings
16% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 52% of the 130 houses currently advertised in Wakefield.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 351 live listings in 10 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 Wakefield, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wakefield, updated 27 October 2026.
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Features · Wakefield
Live signal across 465 Wakefield rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
68%
of 111 Wakefield listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
84%
of 144 Wakefield listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
72 homes came onto the Wakefield rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
184 Alverthorpe Road WF2
1 bed property
Doncaster Road, Wakefield WF1
1 bed property
Thornhill St, Wakefield WF1
1 bed property
Winter Fields Drive, Wakefield WF3
2 bed property
Burkill Street, Wakefield WF1
2 bed property
Cheapside, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1
3 bed property
Willow View, Wakefield WF2
2 bed property
Grosvenor Street, Wakefield WF1
3 bed property
Milton Crescent, Wakefield WF2
4 bed property
Barnsley Road, Newmillerdam WF2
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, Thornhill St, WF1
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, St. Johns North, WF1
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Mill Chase Road, WF2
3 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Winter Fields Drive, WF3
5 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Marsland Avenue, WF1
1 bed room
Winter Fields Drive, Wakefield, WF3
2 bed property
Navigation Walk, WAKEFIELD, WF1
3 bed semi-detached house
George Street, Wakefield WF1
2 bed terraced house
Alverthorpe Road, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PD
1 bed flat/apartment
Haydn Avenue, Stanley, WF3
1 bed flat/apartment
St. Johns Square, West Yorkshire WF1
2 bed flat/apartment
Denmark Court, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5JA
1 bed flat/apartment
Thornhill St, Wakefield, WF1
2 bed flat/apartment
Cheapside, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Wakefield. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Wakefield homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 164,510 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.12
≈ Band B–C
Stock
165k
164,510 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
95% of Wakefield premises can already get full-fibre and 96% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
95%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
96%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
486 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Wakefield), July 2025, covering 163,389 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
43% of Wakefield 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
43%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
57%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
173k
172,572 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Wakefield. 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 Wakefield centroid. The five closest:
CAPA College
16 plus · Free schools 16 to 19 · WF1 2QN
St Austin's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · WF1 3PF
Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill
Primary · Academy sponsor led · WF1 4LU
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · WF1 4PE
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School
Primary · Community school · WF1 3SQ
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Wakefield 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), Wakefield has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 81 of 81 postcode districts analysed, the median was 276 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Wakefield is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Wakefield’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: Violent crime (35) · pop. ~21,000
Most common: Violent crime (43) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (34) · pop. ~7,000
Most common: Violent crime (59) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (197) · 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 Wakefield is £850 a month, from 405 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Wakefield is £695 a month, 18% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 137 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Wakefield is £895 a month, 5% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 135 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Wakefield is £1,188 a month, 40% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 66 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Wakefield is £1,400 a month, 65% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 36 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Wakefield is £520 a month, from 60 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 465 rental properties available in Wakefield, with 72 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Wakefield has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 276 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 Wakefield is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across Yorkshire and the Humber
How Wakefield compares with the other 20 places we track in Yorkshire and the Humber — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across Yorkshire and the Humber, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wakefield, updated 27 October 2026.
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