How much it costs to rent in every London borough

News flash: renting in London is still extremely expensive! Who’d have thought it? New figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have revealed exactly how much it costs to rent in every London borough as of July 2025. 

It’s no surprise that things in London are still eye-wateringly pricey. In fact, a thinktank recently called our housing market ‘impossibly unaffordable’, and things only seem to be getting worse. Rent freeze when?

According to the figures, rent increased by 7.3 percent across the whole of London over the past year, and private rents are now at an average of £2,252 per month. This is more than double the current rate of UK inflation, which was measured at 3.6 percent in June 2025. Per the data, private rents increased in the capital every month over the past 12 months, and have risen by £152 from £2,100 in June 2024. 

Prices were averaged across all property types, from the smallest studio flat to a multi-roomed town house. 

London’s most expensive borough was the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where renters pay an average of £3,616 per month. This is also the most expensive private rent in the whole of the UK. Shortly behind was Westminster, with an average of £3,251 per month. 

In Camden renters are now paying and average of £2,804 per month (an increase of more than 10 percent from 2024), and in Islington the average private rent is £2,697. In Hammersmith and Fulham the average cost of a rental is £2,759. 

Rents in Hackney have risen by a staggering nine percent over the past 12 months, and are now at an average of £2,557. 

The city’s cheapest borough for renting was Bexley, with an average of £1,485 per month, however it was still higher than the national average of £1,344. Brent was the only London location where rent prices actually fell, down by 3.1 percent from 2024. 

How much it costs to rent in every London borough per month

• Barking & Dagenham (B&D): £1,633
• Barnet: £1,872
• Bexley: £1,485
• Brent: £1,999
• Bromley: £1,634
• Camden: £2,804
• Croydon: £1,525
• Ealing: £2,041
• Enfield: £1,724
• Greenwich: £1,873
• Hackney: £2,557
• Hammersmith & Fulham: £2,759
• Haringey: £2,175
• Harrow: £1,717
• Havering: £1,522
• Hillingdon: £1,536
• Hounslow: £1,886
• Islington: £2,697
• Kensington & Chelsea: £3,616
• Kingston: £1,813
• Lambeth: £2,401
• Lewisham: £1,778
• Merton: £2,058
• Newham: £1,851
• Redbridge: £1,682
• Richmond: £2,222
• Southwark: £2,353
• Sutton: £1,521
• Tower Hamlets: £2,364
• Waltham Forest: £1,751
• Wandsworth: £2,519
• Westminster: £3,251 

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