Renting in Watford
Median asking rent · all sizes · 906 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Watford is £1,650 a month, from 906 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,300/moasking · 297 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,750/moasking · 315 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £2,075/moasking · 122 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,800/moasking · 96 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £800/moasking · 84 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 Watford by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/watford, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Watford
Watford currently has 990 rental listings on the property sites we track, 906 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Watford is £1,650 a month, from 906 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 150 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 29% 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 £1,525 a month in WD24 (110 live listings) to £3,000 in WD3 (4 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Watford (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 Watford, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Watford is £1,300 a month, 21% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 297 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Watford is £1,750 a month, 6% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 315 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Watford is £2,075 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 122 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Watford is £2,800 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 96 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Watford is £800 a month, from 84 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 Watford is £1,834 a month, up 2.1% 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
+2.1%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+32%
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 Watford spend an estimated 59% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£37,172/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
59%
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
63% of listings
26% of listings
11% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 54% of the 213 houses currently advertised in Watford.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 724 live listings in 9 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 Watford, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/watford, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Watford
Live signal across 990 Watford rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
63%
of 288 Watford listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
71%
of 345 Watford listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£2.60/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 109 live listings · October 2026Median 666 sqft across the 109 Watford listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
150 homes came onto the Watford rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed flat/apartment
Studio Flat, Muirfield Road, WD19
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Queens Gate, WD17
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Gladstone Road, WD17
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Marlborough Road, WD18
6 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Francis Road, WD18
5 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Addiscombe Road, WD18
3 bed flat/apartment
3 Bed Flat, Bushey Grove Road, WD23
3 bed flat/apartment
3 Bed Flat, Bushey Grove Road, WD23
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Bushey Grove Road, WD23
3 bed flat/apartment
3 Bed Flat, Bushey Grove Road, WD23
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Oxford St, WD18
3 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Southsea Avenue, WD18
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Woodland Drive, WD17
2 bed terraced house
2 Bed Terraced House, Brixton Road, WD24
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Kensington Avenue, WD18
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Maisonette, Hemming Way, WD25
2 bed flat/apartment
2 Bed Flat, Dwight Road, WD18
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, South Oxhey, WD19
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Hayling Road, WD19
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Flat, Sloane Court, WD24
1 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Woodside, WD24
1 bed flat/apartment
2 bed flat/apartment
3 bed house
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Watford. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Watford homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 42,650 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.72
≈ Band C–D
Stock
43k
42,650 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
85% of Watford premises can already get full-fibre and 94% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
85%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
94%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
100%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
485 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Watford), July 2025, covering 43,072 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
50% of Watford 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
50%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
50%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
36k
36,180 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Watford. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
14 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Watford centroid. The five closest:
Central Primary School
Primary · Community school · WD17 2LX
Watford Grammar School for Girls
Secondary · Academy converter · WD18 0AE
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Free schools · WD17 1JJ
Watford Field School (Infant & Nursery)
Primary · Community school · WD18 0WF
Chater Junior School
Primary · Community school · WD18 0WN
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Watford 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), Watford has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 16 of 16 postcode districts analysed, the median was 116 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Watford is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Watford’s figures sit in line with the national picture. Safety varies by street as much as by city — every Dwellio alert includes the area’s data to help.
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 (58) · pop. ~28,000
Most common: Violent crime (81) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (108) · pop. ~10,000
Most common: Violent crime (166) · pop. ~7,000
Most common: Violent crime (197) · pop. ~6,000
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 Watford is £1,650 a month, from 906 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Watford is £1,300 a month, 21% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 297 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Watford is £1,750 a month, 6% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 315 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Watford is £2,075 a month, 26% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 122 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Watford is £2,800 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 96 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Watford is £800 a month, from 84 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 990 rental properties available in Watford, with 150 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Watford has a typical crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 116 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 Watford is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across East of England
How Watford compares with the other 20 places we track in East of England — 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 East of England, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/watford, updated 28 October 2026.
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