UKPP Rental Yield Index · East Midlands

Rental yield in Derby

4.91%

Average gross rental yield, August 2026 edition · ranked 84 of 294 English councils, and 7 of 35 in the East Midlands.

  • East Midlands 4.57% Derby is 0.34 points above the East Midlands.
  • Median English council 4.45% Derby is 0.46 points above the median English council.

Work out your own yield

The figures here are averages for the whole of Derby; your own property will differ. Enter your own price and rent — nothing is pre-filled. The same arithmetic as the full rental yield calculator.

The property

Purchase price, and the rent you charge or expect to charge.

Annual running costs

All optional, all yearly. Leave a line blank and it counts as nothing — only the lines you fill in are included.

Leave this blank for the standard net yield, which is measured on the property and ignores how it was financed. Fill it in and the second figure stops being a net yield in the usual sense: it becomes a leveraged, cash-flow view of your own borrowing, and it is not comparable with a net yield quoted anywhere else. The page relabels the result to say which of the two it has given you.

What’s behind the figure

The inputs to Derby’s gross rental yield
Average monthly rent (ONS)£860
Average sale price (HM Land Registry)£210,076
Monthly sales, latest published194

The working: £860 × 12 ÷ £210,076 = 4.91%. For rent by number of bedrooms, see rent in Derby.

Broadly flat: the last twelve months

Twelve-month change: +0.01 points, from 4.90% in Aug 2025 to 4.91% in Aug 2026. Broadly flat (under a tenth of a point either way), as rents grew 3.0% and prices grew 2.7%.

Every edition as a table
Derby gross rental yield by edition
EditionGross yield
Aug 20254.90%
Sep 20254.91%
Oct 20254.95%
Nov 20254.96%
Dec 20254.96%
Jan 20264.96%
Feb 20264.97%
Mar 20264.94%
Apr 20264.95%
May 20264.98%
Jun 20265.01%
Jul 20264.93%
Aug 20264.91%

Nearby in the East Midlands ranking

Councils ranked directly above and below Derby within the East Midlands. The full UKPP Rental Yield Index ranks every English council.

What this figure is, and isn’t

It is a gross yield: rent over price, before any costs. It models no voids, management, maintenance, tax or finance, and forecasts nothing.

The average rented home and the average sold home are not the same property. The index divides an area’s average rent by its average sale price, so it shows how Derby compares with other areas — not the return on any particular property.

The yield runs about two months behind rents, because Land Registry prices are published later than ONS rents. How the index is built →

Common questions

What is the average rental yield in Derby? 4.91% gross, in the August 2026 edition of the UKPP Rental Yield Index: an average monthly rent of £860 × 12, divided by an average sale price of £210,076. That ranks 84 of 294 English councils.

Is rental yield in Derby rising or falling? Twelve-month change: +0.01 points, from 4.90% in Aug 2025 to 4.91% in Aug 2026. Broadly flat (under a tenth of a point either way), as rents grew 3.0% and prices grew 2.7%.

How does Derby compare with the rest of the East Midlands? Derby ranks 7 of 35 councils in the East Midlands. The region’s own yield is 4.57%, so Derby is 0.34 points above the East Midlands; the median English council is 4.45%.

Sources

Rent: ONS, Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026), Open Government Licence v3.0. Price and sales: HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index (August 2026). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The yield is UKPP’s own derived work, the UKPP Rental Yield Index, August 2026 edition, licensed under CC BY 4.0 — download the edition as CSV.

Related

Rent in Derby — by bedroom and over two years.

PRS Database checker for Derby — what a landlord here must register.

Derby in the full Rental Yield Index — every English council, ranked.

Section 24 calculator and buy-to-let deal analyser — for your own numbers after tax and finance.