Estimated money left each month£1,698£698 above your minimum
Your monthly take-home
£4,200- Rent
- −£1,402
- Bills + commute
- −£1,100
- Money left
- £1,698
After rent, bills and commuting · before savings
Whole household · before savings
RENTING IN LONDON V2 · FREE TO EXPLORE
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Explore the interactive map to find where your money goes further in London. See what’s left after rent, bills and commuting, borough by borough.
ONS borough rent averages · July 2026
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Monthly take-homeTake-home / mo£4,200Whole household
Rent budget to keep your minimumRent budget / mo£2,100After £1,100 bills + general commute
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Money left each month
Take-home minus rent, bills and commuting. Every map figure shows what’s left.
32 boroughs with rental evidenceBorough overview · 1 bedroom
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Money left each month · after costsBelow £0£0–499£500–999£1,000–1,499£1,500+No data
Borough averages for new and existing tenancies, not live listings. Colour shows money left, not quality of life. About the data ↗
Money left = take-home − rent − entered bills − commuting. Moving costs, deposits and any unentered spending are excluded.
ROOM TO EXPLORE
Explore a different side of London.
The same budget. Three boroughs to compare.
NORTH EAST LONDON
Waltham Forest
ONS borough average · July 2026
£1,698left / month
£1,402Rent / month
Meets your minimum
SOUTH EAST LONDON
Lewisham
ONS borough average · July 2026
£1,644left / month
£1,456Rent / month
Meets your minimum
WEST LONDON
Ealing
ONS borough average · July 2026
£1,490left / month
£1,610Rent / month
Meets your minimum
THE LONDON TRADE-OFF
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£10k really change?
£50k salary
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When your rent
gets a pay rise.
IF YOUR RENT WENT UP 10%−£140/ month
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This map is for renting. It estimates the money left after rent, your entered bills and commuting costs. It does not calculate house prices, mortgage payments or the cost of buying a home.
Where do the rent figures come from?
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, July 2026 observations, released 19 August 2026. We use the published borough average for your chosen bedroom category. These include achieved rents for new and existing tenancies; they are not today’s asking rents. Recent figures can be revised. View the ONS dataset ↗
Why boroughs, rather than postcode districts?
These 32 boroughs have usable figures in the monthly series. The City of London is unavailable in this view. Neighbourhood searches point to a containing borough, not a local rent estimate. The separate historical postcode workbook cautions against comparing its samples between areas, so this map uses the monthly borough series. See the ONS methodology.
What is included in “money left”?
Your monthly take-home, minus the rent used, entered bills and commuting. Include council tax, utilities, food, childcare, debt repayments and other spending in your living-cost total. Household size does not automatically estimate costs or benefits. Your desired minimum is a target, not another deduction. Deposits, moving costs and anything you have not entered are excluded. Missing costs stop the calculation; entering zero deliberately excludes that cost.
How is salary converted to take-home?
PayPrecise’s pay engine estimates 2026/27 England Income Tax, employee National Insurance, the selected student loan and any full-salary pension sacrifice. Each earner is calculated separately. These are annualised estimates and may differ from individual payslips. Enter known monthly take-home for other pension arrangements, tax codes, benefits or self-employment. HMRC 2026/27 rates ↗
Can I use an actual listing or my share of the rent?
Yes. Select a borough and choose “Use my actual rent or travel cost”. That entered rent replaces the benchmark for this borough and housing category. In “Just me, sharing a home”, enter your income, your costs and your agreed percentage of the whole-home rent. Entered rent is already your cost and is not split again. This does not assess landlord or lender eligibility.
What gets shared or saved?
Your budget is calculated in this browser and is not saved after a reload. Shared links use a public £4,200 take-home example by default. You can explicitly include your financial inputs after reviewing the share preview. Those links put the inputs in the link fragment, which recipients can read; anyone with the link can open them. The page does not send your income or spending to analytics.
Map: GLA borough boundaries, 2011, simplified for display. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2015. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2015. ONS data: Open Government Licence v3.0; geometry: Open Government Licence v2. Page reviewed 13 September 2026.