Renting in Wolverhampton

Average Rent in Wolverhampton: £950/mo

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Median asking rent across 2,718 live Wolverhampton 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

£950 /month

2,718 live listings · 6 portals

Median monthly rent in Wolverhampton by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£650/mo	143
1 bed	£725/mo	693
2 bed	£950/mo	726
3 bed	£1,150/mo	747
4+ bed	£1,500/mo	257
Room (house share)	£555/mo	152

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 14 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Wolverhampton

What it costs to rent in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton currently has 2,718 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £950 a month. 96 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 51% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is WV12 at around £684/mo, while B3 sits nearer £1,365/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 Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 2,718 live listings across 6 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Wolverhampton

£650/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Wolverhampton is £650 a month, 32% below the city-wide median of £950, based on 143 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Wolverhampton

£725/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Wolverhampton is £725 a month, 24% below the city-wide median of £950, based on 693 listings currently on the market.

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

£950/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Wolverhampton is £950 a month, in line with the city-wide median of £950, based on 726 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Wolverhampton

£1,150/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Wolverhampton is £1,150 a month, 21% above the city-wide median of £950, based on 747 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Wolverhampton

£1,500/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Wolverhampton is £1,500 a month, 58% above the city-wide median of £950, based on 257 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Wolverhampton

£555/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Wolverhampton house share is £555 a month, 42% below the city-wide median of £950, based on 152 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 Wolverhampton rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Wolverhampton. Latest: £942/mo (Jul 26, +11.1% YoY).

Latest

£942

Jul 26

Annual

+11.1%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£649

Aug 21

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.

Affordability · ONS ASHE

What share of Wolverhampton pay goes on rent?

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 rent

£942/mo

£11,304/yr

Median pay

£31,308/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

36%

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 Wolverhampton

Flats & apartments

926

45% of listings

Houses

961

47% of listings

Rooms

152

7% of listings

Bungalows

1% of listings

Property mix · houses

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

Semi-detached houses make up 35% of the 983 houses currently advertised in Wolverhampton.

Semi-detached
35%347
Terraced
33%326
Other house
20%198
Detached
9%92
Bungalow
2%20

Rent by postcode

Where Wolverhampton rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 1,795 live listings in 27 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Wolverhampton

1B3£1,365/mo6 rentals
2B18£1,345/mo20 rentals
3B16£1,200/mo3 rentals

Cheapest in Wolverhampton

1WV12£684/mo8 rentals
2WS10£737/mo46 rentals
3WS1£750/mo7 rentals

Features · Wolverhampton

Garden, parking, and floor area in Wolverhampton

Live signal across 2,718 Wolverhampton rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

82%

of 486 Wolverhampton listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

87%

of 611 Wolverhampton listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Wolverhampton this week

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

96 new this weekUpdated today

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Wolverhampton

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

most common band

Mean band

1.97

≈ Band A–B

Stock

114k

113,680 properties

A
50%57,360
B
22%25,450
C
15%17,560
D
6%7,330
E
3%3,140
F
2%1,730
G
1%1,000
H
0%130

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 Wolverhampton

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

Full fibre (FTTP)
96%
Gigabit-capable
98%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
99%

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

EPC ratings for Wolverhampton homes

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

A
1%660
B
7%6,798
C
32%29,771
D
41%38,421
E
15%14,327
F
3%2,883
G
1%910

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

State-funded schools near Wolverhampton

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

1
Broadmeadow Special School
Not applicable · Academy special converter · WV1 4AL
0.35 mi
2
Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton
Primary · Free schools · WV3 0PR
0.50 mi
3
West Park Primary School
Primary · Community school · WV1 4BE
0.51 mi
4
Thomas Telford University Technical College
Secondary · University technical college · WV10 0JR
0.57 mi
5
Graiseley Primary School
Primary · Community school · WV2 4NE
0.68 mi

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

Safety in Wolverhampton

Higher Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Wolverhampton has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 100 of 100 postcode districts analysed, the median was 258 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Wolverhampton is Violent crime, accounting for 6% of all incidents.

Crime overview

258 crimes per area (median)
100 of 100 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Violent crime
6% of 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

Safety by suburb in Wolverhampton

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.

Penn has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Wolverhampton.

Tettenhall
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (88) · pop. ~16,000
14
per 1k
Penn
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (111) · pop. ~19,000
12
per 1k
Bilston
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (143) · pop. ~26,000
15
per 1k
Wednesfield
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (161) · pop. ~22,000
17
per 1k
Whitmore Reans
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (239) · pop. ~13,000
39
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

Wolverhampton listings by portal

We watch 6 property sites for rentals in Wolverhampton.

Rightmove

1388

OpenRent

497

PrimeLocation

369

OnTheMarket

311

SpareRoom

152

Leaders

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Frequently asked

Renting in Wolverhampton — your questions answered

How much is rent in Wolverhampton?

The average (median) asking rent in Wolverhampton is £950 a month — a 1-bed is £725 and a 2-bed £950, based on 2,718 live listings across 6 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Wolverhampton?

The median asking rent for a studio in Wolverhampton is £650 a month, 32% below the city-wide median of £950, based on 143 studios currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Wolverhampton is £725 a month, 24% below the city-wide median of £950, based on 693 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Wolverhampton is £950 a month, in line with the city-wide median of £950, based on 726 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Wolverhampton is £1,150 a month, 21% above the city-wide median of £950, based on 747 listings currently on the market.

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

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Wolverhampton is £1,500 a month, 58% above the city-wide median of £950, based on 257 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Wolverhampton?

The median asking rent for a room in a Wolverhampton house share is £555 a month, 42% below the city-wide median of £950, based on 152 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Wolverhampton?

There are currently 2,718 rental properties available in Wolverhampton, with 96 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Wolverhampton safe for renters?

Wolverhampton has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 258 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Wolverhampton?

The most commonly reported crime category in Wolverhampton is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

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