Renting in Wolverhampton
Median asking rent · all sizes · 779 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Wolverhampton is £995 a month, from 779 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £737/moasking · 233 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £950/moasking · 187 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,200/moasking · 226 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,625/moasking · 99 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £550/moasking · 74 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 Wolverhampton by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wolverhampton, updated 30 October 2026.
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Renting in Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton currently has 853 rental listings on the property sites we track, 779 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Wolverhampton is £995 a month, from 779 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 126 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 54% 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 £850 a month in WV3 (113 live listings) to £1,200 in WV13 (7 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Wolverhampton (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 Wolverhampton, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Wolverhampton is £737 a month, 26% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 233 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Wolverhampton is £950 a month, 5% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 187 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Wolverhampton is £1,200 a month, 21% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 226 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Wolverhampton is £1,625 a month, 63% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 99 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Wolverhampton is £550 a month, from 74 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 Wolverhampton is £948 a month, up 10.7% 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
+10.7%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+45%
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 Wolverhampton spend an estimated 36% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£31,308/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
36%
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
40% of listings
48% of listings
10% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Semi-detached houses make up 33% of the 366 houses currently advertised in Wolverhampton.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 578 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 Wolverhampton, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wolverhampton, updated 30 October 2026.
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Features · Wolverhampton
Live signal across 853 Wolverhampton rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
80%
of 181 Wolverhampton listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
82%
of 203 Wolverhampton listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
126 homes came onto the Wolverhampton rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
4 bed semi-detached house
Allen Road, Wolverhampton, WV6
Studio flat/apartment
2 Clarence Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1
3 bed property
Kingsway Road, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10
2 bed terraced house
Burleigh Road, Wolverhampton, WV3
3 bed detached house
Ross Close, Wolverhampton, WV3
1 bed room
Owen Road, WOLVERHAMPTON
3 bed semi-detached house
Hilston Avenue, WOLVERHAMPTON
1 bed flat/apartment
Boydon Close, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2
2 bed flat/apartment
11 Weller Court, Finchfield
3 bed semi-detached house
Lawnswood Avenue, Wolverhampton WV4
2 bed house
Brindley Avenue, WOLVERHAMPTON
2 bed flat/apartment
16 Danescourt Manor, Danescourt Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton
2 bed flat/apartment
Danescourt Road, Wolverhampton
4 bed detached house
Langley Road, Wolverhampton, WV4
4 bed semi-detached house
Westminster Avenue, Wolverhampton, WV4
2 bed flat/apartment
Finchfield, Wolverhampton, WV3
2 bed property
28b, Wolverhampton
2 bed flat/apartment
Ikon Avenue, Wolverhampton
3 bed house
Wellington Road, Bilston, WV14
2 bed semi-detached house
Wistwood Hayes, Wolverhampton, WV10
2 bed flat/apartment
Fairview Road, Wolverhampton, WV11
2 bed terraced house
Victoria Road, Wolverhampton WV10
1 bed flat/apartment
Lichfield Street, West Midlands WV1
1 bed flat/apartment
Ashland Street, Wolverhampton WV3
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Wolverhampton. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Wolverhampton homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 113,680 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
1.97
≈ Band A–B
Stock
114k
113,680 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
96% of Wolverhampton premises can already get full-fibre and 98% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
96%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
98%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
493 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Wolverhampton), July 2025, covering 113,363 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
40% of Wolverhampton 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
40%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
60%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
94k
93,770 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Wolverhampton. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
13 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Wolverhampton centroid. The five closest:
Broadmeadow Special School
Not applicable · Academy special converter · WV1 4AL
Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton
Primary · Free schools · WV3 0PR
West Park Primary School
Primary · Community school · WV1 4BE
Thomas Telford University Technical College
Secondary · University technical college · WV10 0JR
Graiseley Primary School
Primary · Community school · WV2 4NE
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Wolverhampton 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), Wolverhampton has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 100 of 100 postcode districts analysed, the median was 266 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Wolverhampton is Violent crime, accounting for 5% of all incidents.
Wolverhampton’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 (104) · pop. ~16,000
Most common: Violent crime (89) · pop. ~19,000
Most common: Violent crime (131) · pop. ~26,000
Most common: Violent crime (158) · pop. ~22,000
Most common: Violent crime (235) · pop. ~13,000
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 Wolverhampton is £995 a month, from 779 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Wolverhampton is £737 a month, 26% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 233 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Wolverhampton is £950 a month, 5% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 187 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Wolverhampton is £1,200 a month, 21% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 226 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Wolverhampton is £1,625 a month, 63% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 99 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Wolverhampton is £550 a month, from 74 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 853 rental properties available in Wolverhampton, with 126 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Wolverhampton has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 266 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Wolverhampton is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across West Midlands
How Wolverhampton 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/wolverhampton, updated 29 October 2026.
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