ONS · median monthly private rent July 2026, median full-time annual pay 2025 · Local authority
Where do renters pay the largest share of local pay?
The published median private rent in each local authority, multiplied by twelve and divided by median annual pay of full-time employees living there: the share of a middle full-time salary that a median rent would take. Both figures are published; the division is a Civometry calculation, and every area shows its arithmetic.
North Kesteven
26.4%Annual rent as a percentage of median full-time pay
In North Kesteven, a median private rent takes 26.4% of median full-time annual pay (median monthly private rent July 2026, median full-time annual pay 2025) — joint 61st lowest of 316 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- North Kesteven (E07000139)
- Annual rent as a percentage of median full-time pay
- 26.4%
- Rank
- joint 61st lowest of 316 areas with a published figure; 32 more areas have no published figure
- Percentile
- 19% of areas with a figure are below it
- Period
- median monthly private rent July 2026, median full-time annual pay 2025
- Release
- median monthly private rent: August 2026 (rents to July 2026); median full-time annual pay: 2025 provisional
- Published by
- ONS
- Status
- Civometry calculation on published figures
How this number was worked out
median monthly private rent £820 × 12 = £9,840 ÷ median full-time annual pay £37,305 × 100 = 26.4%
median monthly private rent × 12 ÷ median full-time annual pay × 100
Both figures are published for this area. Nothing is weighted, smoothed or modelled, so the sum above can be checked by hand.
In North Kesteven, a median private rent takes 26.4% of median full-time annual pay (median monthly private rent July 2026, median full-time annual pay 2025) — joint 61st lowest of 316 areas with a published figure. Civometry calculation using ONS figures. Calculation: median monthly private rent £820 × 12 = £9,840 ÷ median full-time annual pay £37,305 × 100 = 26.4%.
Highest areas
Lowest areas
| # | Area | % of pay |
|---|---|---|
| 316 | Cumberland · profile | 19.1% |
| 315 | Powys · profile | 20.8% |
| 314 | Hartlepool · profile | 20.9% |
| 313 | North East Lincolnshire · profile | 21.7% |
| 312 | Redcar and Cleveland · profile | 22.0% |
| 311 | Northumberland · profile | 22.0% |
| 310 | Carmarthenshire · profile | 22.0% |
| 309 | Hyndburn · profile | 22.1% |
| 308 | North Lincolnshire · profile | 22.6% |
| 307 | Derbyshire Dales · profile | 22.6% |
All 316 areas, ranked
Ranked by annual rent as a percentage of median full-time pay, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.
What this map shows
316 of 348 local authority areas have a current value for annual rent as a share of pay (annual rent as a percentage of median full-time pay), median monthly private rent July 2026, median full-time annual pay 2025. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.
It compares two area-level published medians. It is not the rent or the income of any particular household.
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- Data
- Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (ONS) (ONS).
- Denominator
- median full-time annual pay for the same area, as published ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence (ONS).
- Coverage
- ONS publishes private rents by local authority for England and Wales. Scotland is published for broad rental market areas and Northern Ireland for the country as a whole.
- Boundaries
- ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
- Basemap
- Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.
- Formula
- median monthly rent × 12 ÷ median full-time annual pay × 100, all as published
- Stale areas
- Both sides use the newest period each source publishes for the area. An area missing either side is no data, with the missing side named. Nothing is carried forward and no year is interpolated.
- Method
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What this does not measure
The asking rent for a property advertised today, which is usually higher than the average across all tenancies, nor social rents, nor what any particular tenant pays.
The Price Index of Private Rents estimates the average rent across all private tenancies in an area, new lets and continuing tenancies, modelled from Valuation Office Agency data in England and the equivalent bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is not an asking-rent series and usually sits below advertised rents for new lets. Recent months are revised as data arrives. The site holds England and Wales local authorities plus UK, country and region totals; Scottish councils and Northern Ireland districts are in the source but outside the site's geography registry.
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