ONS Price Index of Private Rents · Region comparison

Compare rents between regions, over time

Average monthly rent for each region, every month ONS has published, on one axis. Pick the areas you want to compare. Every point is a published figure for the month shown — nothing here is estimated, projected, or worked out for a single property.

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13 published ONS areas. This is the complete list — there is no search box and no postcode lookup, because area averages cannot answer a question about one property.

Average monthly rent by region, May 2024 to July 2026

Reference period: May 2024 – July 2026 (27 monthly periods) · Figures read: 8 September 2026
Average monthly rent, whole market. No bedroom breakdown: the by-bedroom PIPR series published for local authorities carry a single reference period, so there is no regional bedroom history to plot — showing one would mean inventing it. The last point on every line is July 2026, the most recent month ONS has published. Where ONS has revised a month, the most recently read value is used.

First and latest published month

Read from the source data, not from the chart above — a value recovered by measuring a plotted line is not an official statistic.

AreaMay 2024 July 2026Change
North East £669 £783 +£114
North West £844 £965 +£121
Yorkshire and The Humber £794 £864 +£70
East Midlands £827 £918 +£91
West Midlands £876 £974 +£98
East of England £1,149 £1,285 +£136
London £2,100 £2,317 +£217
South East £1,301 £1,419 +£118
South West £1,127 £1,236 +£109
England £1,311 £1,451 +£140
Wales £743 £843 +£100
Scotland £958 £1,016 +£58
Northern Ireland £796 £877 +£81

Each row is that area’s own first and latest published month. Where a series starts later than others (Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom aggregate, which ONS has published for fewer months) the first column is that series’ own earliest month, not a padded one.

Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents, read 8 September 2026. Reference period May 2024–July 2026. Data: rent-series-regions.json.

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This page presents official statistics for context across areas. It is not a valuation of any property and not advice.