Housing · ONS · median monthly private rent July 2026, median full-time annual pay 2025

Annual rent as a share of pay by local authority, ranked

Every area with a published figure, in order of annual rent as a percentage of median full-time pay, lowest first, because this layer states that lower is better. Equal figures share a rank and are printed as ties; the order within a tie is alphabetical and means nothing. 32 areas have no published figure and are listed at the end with the reason, never counted as zero.

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#Area% of payUK percentile

Areas with no published figure

AreaWhy there is no figure
Aberdeen CityNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
AberdeenshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
AngusNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Argyll and ButeNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
City of EdinburghNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
ClackmannanshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Dumfries and GallowayNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Dundee CityNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
East AyrshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
East DunbartonshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
East LothianNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
East RenfrewshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
FalkirkNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
FifeNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Glasgow CityNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
HighlandNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
InverclydeNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
MidlothianNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
MorayNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Na h-Eileanan SiarNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
North AyrshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
North LanarkshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Orkney IslandsNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Perth and KinrossNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
RenfrewshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Scottish BordersNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
Shetland IslandsNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
South AyrshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
South LanarkshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
StirlingNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
West DunbartonshireNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).
West LothianNo median monthly private rent published for this area (July 2026).

How this ranking is made

Annual rent as a percentage of median full-time pay: median monthly rent × 12 ÷ median full-time annual pay × 100, all as published.. Annual private rent as a share of median full-time annual pay, by local authority.

Source: ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics · median monthly private rent: August 2026 (rents to July 2026); median full-time annual pay: 2025 provisional. Boundaries: 2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2. Percentiles are calculated across the whole UK, so they do not change when the table is filtered to one nation. A ranking compares areas of very different sizes and populations; the figure is the publisher’s own, and its rank is Civometry’s ordering of those published figures.