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.
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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.