# Three-bedroom private rent

The average monthly rent paid for privately rented homes with 3 bedrooms, from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents.

## Facts

- Published by: Office for National Statistics
- Level of detail: Council
- Updates: Monthly
- History: Since January 2015
- Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0
- Levels: United Kingdom, Nation, Region, Council

## Periods

| Level | First | Latest | Periods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | January 2015 | August 2026 | 140 |
| Nation | January 2015 | August 2026 | 140 |
| Region | January 2015 | August 2026 | 140 |
| Council | January 2015 | August 2026 | 140 |

## Coverage

| Nation | Areas | With a figure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| England | 296 | 294 |
| Wales | 22 | 22 |
| Scotland | 32 | 0 |
| Northern Ireland | 11 | 0 |

Scotland and Northern Ireland publish rents by Broad Rental Market Area, not by council.

Scotland and Northern Ireland publish rents by Broad Rental Market Area, not by council.

## Gaps

- Scotland and Northern Ireland publish rents by Broad Rental Market Area, not by council: 43 (Antrim and Newtownabbey, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Belfast, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh)
- ONS does not publish private rents for the City of London or the Isles of Scilly because too few rents are collected there: 2 (Isles of Scilly, City of London)

## Caveats

- This is the average monthly rent across all privately rented homes with 3 bedrooms, for new and existing tenancies, flats and houses alike.
- Local figures can jump from month to month because they rest on the number and mix of rents collected in each area. The longer trend is a better guide than one month.
- ONS treats the latest two months of the UK series as provisional and revises them each month.
- Scotland and Northern Ireland publish rents by Broad Rental Market Area, not by council, so only their nation figures are shown here. Scottish rents are mainly advertised new lets, and Northern Ireland's are advertised new lets only, so take care comparing them with England and Wales.
- Northern Ireland figures run two months behind the rest of the UK. The UK figure for the latest two months includes an estimate for Northern Ireland.
- The City of London and the Isles of Scilly are not published because too few rents are collected there.
- These are official statistics in development, so ONS is still improving the method. The figures are not adjusted for season.

## Example: Hackney

The average private rent for a home with 3 bedrooms in Hackney was £2,846 a month in August 2026.
That is 8% higher than London and twice the UK average for the same size of home.
For three-bedroom rent, Hackney is the 6th highest of 316 in the UK.

https://openindex.co.uk/hackney

## Sources

### Price Index of Private Rents

- Publisher: Office for National Statistics
- Licence: [Open Government Licence 3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Edition: PIPR 16 September 2026
- Published: 16 September 2026
- Fetched: 15 October 2026
- Updates: monthly
- Credit: Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents, licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
- Publisher's page: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datasets/priceindexofprivaterentsukmonthlypricestatistics

## Use it

- [The map](https://openindex.co.uk/map/private-rents-3-bed)
- [Ranking](https://openindex.co.uk/rankings/private-rents-3-bed/uk)
- Download (Council): https://data.openindex.co.uk/s/2026.10.8/downloads/layers/private-rent-3-bed/council.csv
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/private-rent-3-bed

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/sources/private-rents-3-bed.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

- Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents, licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/private-rents-3-bed