ONS · Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026 · Local authority
All private rents by local authority
Average monthly private rent by local authority from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, for all lets and by number of bedrooms. The newest month published for each area; a mean, so a few expensive lets pull it up.
Test Valley
+8.4%Change in average rent over 12 months, per cent
Private rents in Test Valley changed by +8.4% over twelve months (Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026), compared with +3.7% for United Kingdom average, July 2025 to July 2026 — joint 17th highest of 316 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- Test Valley (E07000093)
- Change in average rent over 12 months, per cent
- +8.4%
- United Kingdom average, July 2025 to July 2026
- +3.7%
- Rank
- joint 17th highest of 316 areas with a published figure
- Percentile
- 95% of areas with a figure are below it
- Period
- Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026
- Release
- August 2026 (rents to July 2026), released 2026-08-19
- Published by
- ONS
- Status
- Civometry calculation on published figures
Private rents in Test Valley changed by +8.4% over twelve months (Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026), compared with +3.7% for United Kingdom average, July 2025 to July 2026 — joint 17th highest of 316 areas with a published figure. Civometry calculation using ONS figures.
Most improved areas
| # | Area | change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waverley · profile | −3.1% |
| 2 | Wyre Forest · profile | −2.4% |
| 3 | Westminster · profile | −2.0% |
| 4 | Woking · profile | −1.7% |
| 5 | Runnymede · profile | −1.7% |
| 6 | Kingston upon Thames · profile | −1.2% |
| 7 | Merthyr Tydfil · profile | −1.0% |
| 8 | Brighton and Hove · profile | −1.0% |
| 9 | Broxtowe · profile | −0.9% |
| 10 | Hartlepool · profile | −0.5% |
Most worsened areas
| # | Area | change |
|---|---|---|
| 316 | Tewkesbury · profile | +13.0% |
| 315 | Kirklees · profile | +12.7% |
| 314 | Wolverhampton · profile | +11.2% |
| 313 | Folkestone and Hythe · profile | +11.0% |
| 312 | Oldham · profile | +11.0% |
| 311 | West Lindsey · profile | +10.9% |
| 310 | Knowsley · profile | +10.3% |
| 309 | Bolton · profile | +9.8% |
| 308 | North West Leicestershire · profile | +9.8% |
| 307 | Dover · profile | +9.7% |
All 316 areas, ranked
Ranked by change in average rent over 12 months, per cent, lowest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.
What this map shows
316 of 316 local authority areas have a current value for all private rents (change in average rent over 12 months, per cent), Change over 12 months: July 2025 to July 2026. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.
The undimensioned figure: every bedroom count combined.
Take the data
Embed (static map with title, period, official source and a link back):
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- Data
- Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (ONS) (ONS).
- Denominator
- None (a published average per area). Percentiles rank the areas with a value for the newest month. Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (ONS).
- 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
- (newest value − value twelve months earlier) ÷ value twelve months earlier × 100, both as published
- Stale areas
- An area whose newest published value is for an earlier period than the newest any area carries is shown as no current data, with both periods named. Nothing is carried forward.
- Method
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