Average Rent by City Across the UK

Cheapest places

Cheapest places to rent in the UK

The cheapest place to rent in the UK is Burnley, where the median asking rent for homes of all sizes is £625 a month, from 332 live listings on four property sites, the lowest of 200 UK cities (Dwellio, October 2026).

• For a 1-bed, the cheapest place to rent in the UK is Grimsby, where the median asking rent is £500 a month, from 155 live listings, the lowest of 172 UK cities with at least 30 live 1-bed listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
• For a 2-bed, the cheapest place to rent in the UK is Hartlepool, where the median asking rent is £600 a month, from 52 live listings, the lowest of 188 UK cities with at least 30 live 2-bed listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
• For a 3-bed, the cheapest place to rent in the UK is Grimsby, where the median asking rent is £700 a month, from 148 live listings, the lowest of 156 UK cities with at least 30 live 3-bed listings (Dwellio, October 2026).

Pick a size and a region. Each place links to its rents and new listings, and “Alerts” sets up an alert for that size up to the typical rent there.

Source: Dwellio, median asking rent of the live whole-home listings we track on five property sites, October 2026. Asking rents on homes to let now, not rents tenants pay. A size is ranked only with at least 30 live listings of that size; a city whose overall figure doesn’t fit its 1- to 3-bed figures, or whose 2- or 3-bed figure sits more than 5% below a smaller size’s, is left out of that ranking rather than shown with a doubtful number. Rent-to-income is the ONS average rent paid for homes of all sizes (August 2026) as a share of residents’ median gross pay (ONS ASHE 2025), the same figure for every size. See rent and pay below. How we measure this

London

Cheapest London boroughs to rent

The cheapest London borough to rent in is Croydon, where the median asking rent for homes of all sizes is £1,610 a month, from 1,409 live listings, the lowest of the 18 London boroughs and areas Dwellio tracks (Dwellio, October 2026).

• For a 1-bed, the cheapest London borough is Croydon, where the median asking rent is £1,400 a month, from 495 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
• For a 2-bed, the cheapest London borough is Croydon, where the median asking rent is £1,750 a month, from 471 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
• For a 3-bed, the cheapest London borough is Bromley, where the median asking rent is £2,225 a month, from 57 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).

Every London borough by size, on the London rents page

Source: Dwellio, median asking rent of the live whole-home listings we track on five property sites, October 2026. Asking rents on homes to let now, not rents tenants pay. A size is ranked only with at least 30 live listings of that size; a city whose overall figure doesn’t fit its 1- to 3-bed figures, or whose 2- or 3-bed figure sits more than 5% below a smaller size’s, is left out of that ranking rather than shown with a doubtful number. Hammersmith and Fulham are listed separately, as on their own pages.

Rent rises

Where rents rose most: rent increase by area

Of 186 ONS areas covering the cities Dwellio tracks, the ONS average rent paid rose most in Kirklees (Huddersfield, Dewsbury): up 12.8% in the year to August 2026 (Office for National Statistics). The ONS average rent paid fell in 8 of the 186 ONS areas covering the cities Dwellio tracks, most in Wyre Forest (Kidderminster): down 2.4% in the year to August 2026 (Office for National Statistics).

Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents, annual change in the average rent paid for homes of all sizes, year to August 2026. One row per ONS area: several towns can share an area, and each row names the Dwellio pages it covers (186 areas in all). “Alerts” uses the first town’s median asking rent as the price cap. How we measure this