What a council home costs
Average council rent, borough by borough, for the boroughs that still have any.
Data access
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| Series | Period or category | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Bromley | 159.95 | £ per week |
| Value | Bexley | 159.1 | £ per week |
| Value | Westminster | 144.14 | £ per week |
| Value | Kensington and Chelsea | 141.68 | £ per week |
| Value | Wandsworth | 140.26 | £ per week |
| Value | Islington | 135.89 | £ per week |
| Value | Harrow | 132.29 | £ per week |
| Value | Brent | 131.36 | £ per week |
| Value | Camden | 129.15 | £ per week |
| Value | Kingston upon Thames | 127.24 | £ per week |
| Value | Hillingdon | 126.44 | £ per week |
| Value | Tower Hamlets | 125.6 | £ per week |
| Value | Lambeth | 124.36 | £ per week |
| Value | Sutton | 123.08 | £ per week |
| Value | City of London | 122.41 | £ per week |
| Value | Southwark | 121.92 | £ per week |
| Value | Croydon | 121.8 | £ per week |
| Value | Hammersmith and Fulham | 121.67 | £ per week |
| Value | Haringey | 120.57 | £ per week |
| Value | Hounslow | 120.31 | £ per week |
| Value | Barnet | 120.08 | £ per week |
| Value | Waltham Forest | 119.22 | £ per week |
| Value | Redbridge | 119.12 | £ per week |
| Value | Hackney | 116.33 | £ per week |
| Value | Enfield | 115.52 | £ per week |
| Value | Havering | 112.78 | £ per week |
| Value | Newham | 111.85 | £ per week |
| Value | Ealing | 110.89 | £ per week |
| Value | Barking and Dagenham | 108.44 | £ per week |
| Value | Greenwich | 106.86 | £ per week |
| Value | Lewisham | 106.45 | £ per week |
Methodology
Average local authority rent per week by borough, from the London Datastore. This is council rent, not the private market — the graph was originally planned around private rents, but ONS publishes those as a spreadsheet without borough detail, and substituting one for the other would have been the wrong number under the right title. Boroughs marked LSVT transferred their housing stock and no longer set a council rent; they are absent rather than shown as zero.
Provenance
- Source
- London Datastore
- Cadence
- annual
- Engine
- comparison
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0