Civometry estimate · official averages only · nothing inferred about you
What does it cost to live in Powys?
An estimate assembled from official averages: what households like yours spend according to the ONS survey, scaled to your region, plus your area’s official average rent and Band D council tax. It is a benchmark for a household of your shape, not a prediction of your bills, and every line says where it came from.
Civometry estimate · 1 adult, 0 children, Powys, renting · Powys (Wales)
£1,470 a month
£1,010 everyday spending + £460 housing
Against net household income of £2,393 a month from the 2026/27 tax rules, that leaves £920 a month unallocated. Rounded to £10: the survey averages do not support anything finer.
Line by line
| Item | A month | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Food and non-alcoholic drinks | £161 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Alcoholic drinks, tobacco and narcotics | £34 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Clothing and footwear | £42 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Household goods and services | £112 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Transport | £217 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Communication | £59 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Recreation and culture | £161 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Restaurants and hotels | £108 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Miscellaneous goods and services | £111 | UK survey average, Non-retired: One person, Year ending March 2025 × 0.922 (Wales) |
| Housing | £462 | official average private rent, 1-bedroom, Powys, July 2026 (bedrooms assumed: one per child plus one; type yours above) |
| Council tax | not estimated | Band D by authority is published for England only |
| Total | £1,470 |
Not in the total: energy, water and home maintenance (the survey folds them into a housing group that also contains rent, so they cannot be separated at this level), mortgage payments unless typed, childcare, and the survey’s “other expenditure items” (holidays, gifts, mortgage capital). The survey suppressed health, education for this group as too small a sample, so they are missing too.
Assumptions and geographic level
- Household group
- Non-retired: One person: chosen from the number of adults and children typed. Retirement is not inferred from age.
- Everyday spending
- UK-wide survey averages for that group (Year ending March 2025), because the ONS publishes composition breakdowns only for the UK.
- Regional scaling
- Wales total spending £574 a week ÷ UK £623 a week = 0.922, from the three-year regional table (April 2022 to March 2025 (three-year average)). One ratio for every category: the ONS does not publish category-by-region for this household type.
- Housing
- Official average rent for Powys from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which covers all tenancies and sits below advertised rents for new lets.
- Council tax
- Band D for the billing authority. Bands A to C pay less; discounts and support are not applied.
- Price periods
- The lines are published for different periods (survey averages Year ending March 2025; rent July 2026) and are added together without inflation adjustment, so the total mixes price years. The older a line’s period, the more it understates today’s prices.
- Income
- Net pay from the statutory rules (working); benefits other than Child Benefit are not included.
Check the data
- Household spending, ONS Family Spending · released 11 June 2026
- Average private rent, ONS Price Index of Private Rents · Powys, July 2026, released 19 August 2026
- Every cost-of-living figure published for Powys
- The same household somewhere else