One-bedroom by local authority

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Lowest areas

Ranked by average rent, £ a month, highest 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 one-bedroom (average rent, £ a month), Latest published: July 2026. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.

Properties let with one bedroom.

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Source and method

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).

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, so neither has a council-level figure here.

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

the published figure for the area, unchanged

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

Methodology

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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