Which parts of London have the cheapest rooms?

Outer neighbourhoods in East and South East London are usually the cheapest for rooms, while Central and West London cost the most. The table on this page shows the current typical asking rent for each area with enough recent listings, each linking to the live rooms available there.

Do these prices include bills?

Some do — many London rooms are advertised with bills included (energy, water, often broadband). The figures here are asking rents as advertised; check each listing for what its price covers.

Average room rent in London by area (2026)

Updated October 2026

Rooms in flatshares advertised on Instamove over the last six months had a typical asking rent of £880 per month, with most rents between £700 and £1170 pcm (177 rooms). Where you look matters more than anything else — the same budget that gets a small room in Zone 2 gets a large en-suite further out.

How these figures are made: asking rents of rooms advertised on Instamove in the last six months, normalised to per-calendar-month. Area figures use listings within roughly 1.5 miles of the area's centre; ranges show where most rents fall (10th–90th percentile once there's enough data). They are indicative asking prices, not achieved rents. Areas without enough recent listings aren't shown.

Central London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Belgravia	£1040 pcm	£850–£1500	7
Bloomsbury	£1040 pcm	£950–£1125	5
Borough	£950 pcm	£800–£1225	9
Clerkenwell	£1250 pcm	£950–£2000	8
Fitzrovia	£1100 pcm	£975–£1500	5
Holborn	£1082 pcm	£950–£1300	4
Hyde Park	£850 pcm	£850–£1500	4
Knightsbridge	£880 pcm	£850–£1500	6
Lancaster Gate	£850 pcm	£850–£1500	4
Marble Arch	£945 pcm	£850–£1500	6
Pimlico	£1082 pcm	£850–£1400	4
Sloane Square	£850 pcm	£850–£1400	5
Soho	£1082 pcm	£975–£1500	4
South Kensington	£850 pcm	£850–£910	4
Victoria	£945 pcm	£850–£1400	6
Waterloo	£950 pcm	£875–£1125	5
Westminster	£1082 pcm	£850–£1400	4

East London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Barking	£1140 pcm	£520–£1170	8
Bethnal Green	£948 pcm	£850–£1030	16
Blackwall	£1000 pcm	£866–£1300	14
Bow	£972 pcm	£880–£1200	12
Canary Wharf	£962 pcm	£845–£1250	26
East Ham	£1140 pcm	£900–£1170	9
Forest Gate	£1140 pcm	£900–£1170	8
Hackney	£1058 pcm	£945–£1650	4
Hackney Wick	£950 pcm	£900–£1120	5
Limehouse	£950 pcm	£866–£1250	33
Manor Park	£1140 pcm	£520–£1170	8
Mile End	£972 pcm	£867–£1250	26
Plaistow	£1140 pcm	£900–£1170	9
Shoreditch	£950 pcm	£880–£2000	15
Stratford	£950 pcm	£900–£1120	7
Upton Park	£1140 pcm	£900–£1170	9
Wapping	£950 pcm	£850–£1025	21
West Ham	£1140 pcm	£900–£1170	7
Whitechapel	£945 pcm	£845–£1025	15

North London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Angel	£1250 pcm	£950–£2000	8
Highbury	£1475 pcm	£1150–£2000	6
Holloway	£1150 pcm	£900–£1300	4
Islington	£1250 pcm	£950–£2000	8

North West London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Belsize Park	£1138 pcm	£900–£1300	4
Brondesbury	£835 pcm	£800–£1300	19
Colindale	£889 pcm	£820–£940	41
Cricklewood	£835 pcm	£825–£940	22
Dollis Hill	£835 pcm	£800–£860	17
Finchley	£940 pcm	£690–£940	8
Finchley Road	£835 pcm	£825–£860	21
Golders Green	£850 pcm	£830–£889	25
Hampstead	£1100 pcm	£830–£1300	4
Hendon	£889 pcm	£830–£940	37
Kilburn	£855 pcm	£825–£1300	10
Queens Park	£860 pcm	£830–£1300	8
Swiss Cottage	£1138 pcm	£900–£1300	4
West Hampstead	£835 pcm	£800–£1300	19
Willesden	£835 pcm	£800–£860	17
Willesden Green	£835 pcm	£800–£860	17

South East London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Canada Water	£950 pcm	£867–£1250	22
Deptford	£950 pcm	£850–£1225	15
Eltham	£650 pcm	£600–£750	12
Greenwich	£920 pcm	£820–£1250	4
Rotherhithe	£950 pcm	£866–£1250	27
Surrey Quays	£950 pcm	£866–£1250	25

South London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Bermondsey	£950 pcm	£875–£990	12
Brixton	£735 pcm	£735–£735	5
Camberwell	£735 pcm	£735–£850	6
Elephant And Castle	£925 pcm	£850–£1125	5
Herne Hill	£735 pcm	£735–£735	5
Lambeth	£1040 pcm	£850–£1400	5
New Cross	£950 pcm	£900–£990	11
Stockwell	£735 pcm	£735–£1400	7
Vauxhall	£1082 pcm	£850–£1400	4

South West London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Chelsea	£867 pcm	£850–£1400	6
South Lambeth	£1040 pcm	£850–£1400	5

West London

Area	Typical rent	Most rents	Rooms
Bayswater	£850 pcm	£850–£1500	4
Earls Court	£850 pcm	£850–£910	4
Kensington	£850 pcm	£850–£910	4
Paddington	£850 pcm	£850–£1500	4
West Kensington	£850 pcm	£850–£910	4

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