Where house price and rent pulled apart
Every local authority ranked by the gap between its house price change and its rent change over each series’ own latest published year. Both changes are shown for every area, with the periods on hover; the gap is one minus the other, in percentage points of change. Areas missing a year-earlier value on either side are left out, never treated as zero.
A gap is not an explanation. Two series can pull apart for reasons neither one records — a different mix of homes sold, a survey’s sampling, a boundary quirk. This page says where they diverged, not why.
Largest gaps: average house price outpacing average private rent
| Area | house price change | rent change | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trafford | +9.7% | +2.5% | +7.2 points |
| Calderdale | +9.4% | +2.3% | +7.1 points |
| Redcar and Cleveland | +8.1% | +1.1% | +7 points |
| Burnley | +9.9% | +3% | +6.9 points |
| Harborough | +9.7% | +2.9% | +6.8 points |
| Hyndburn | +10.7% | +3.9% | +6.8 points |
| North East Derbyshire | +10.6% | +3.8% | +6.8 points |
| Preston | +12.4% | +6.2% | +6.2 points |
| Northumberland | +12.6% | +6.8% | +5.8 points |
| East Cambridgeshire | +6.1% | +0.6% | +5.5 points |
| Wyre Forest | +2.9% | −2.4% | +5.2 points |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf | +7.4% | +2.2% | +5.2 points |
| Runnymede | +3.5% | −1.7% | +5.2 points |
| St. Helens | +11.1% | +6.2% | +4.9 points |
| Amber Valley | +7.9% | +3.1% | +4.8 points |
| Westmorland and Furness | +11.1% | +6.4% | +4.7 points |
| Vale of White Horse | +6.3% | +1.7% | +4.6 points |
| Derbyshire Dales | +11.7% | +7.4% | +4.3 points |
| Surrey Heath | +6.1% | +1.9% | +4.3 points |
| Kingston upon Thames | +2.9% | −1.2% | +4.1 points |
The other end: average private rent outpacing average house price
| Area | house price change | rent change | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westminster | −25.4% | −2% | −23.4 points |
| Tower Hamlets | −13.1% | +3% | −16.1 points |
| Kensington and Chelsea | −14.7% | +0.8% | −15.5 points |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | −13.3% | +1.9% | −15.2 points |
| Islington | −8.1% | +5.9% | −14.1 points |
| Guildford | −5.6% | +5.4% | −11.1 points |
| South Hams | −6.8% | +3.2% | −10 points |
| Tandridge | −5.6% | +3.9% | −9.6 points |
| Pembrokeshire | −4.2% | +4.8% | −9.1 points |
| Wandsworth | −5.2% | +3.9% | −9.1 points |
| Redditch | −0.5% | +8.4% | −9 points |
| Folkestone and Hythe | +2.4% | +11% | −8.6 points |
| Test Valley | −0.2% | +8.4% | −8.6 points |
| Spelthorne | −4.7% | +3.1% | −7.8 points |
| Tunbridge Wells | −3% | +4.6% | −7.6 points |
| Lambeth | −3.3% | +4.2% | −7.6 points |
| Bath and North East Somerset | −0.1% | +7.4% | −7.5 points |
| Camden | −7.1% | +0.4% | −7.5 points |
| Kirklees | +5.4% | +12.7% | −7.3 points |
| Sandwell | +0.6% | +7.7% | −7.1 points |
316 local authorities have a published value and a value from a year earlier in both series. Each change is Civometry arithmetic on two published figures; the levels come from the series’ own publishers. Changes are nominal — inflation affects both sides of a money pair, but not necessarily equally. ASHE pay figures for small areas carry wide confidence intervals: a double-digit one-year swing in one authority’s median pay is often sampling, not economics, so read extreme rows as candidates to check, not conclusions.