The most expensive places in Devon to rent mapped

Renters living in Devon are paying hundreds more pounds in rent per year than they were previously
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Renters living in Devon are paying hundreds more pounds in rent per year than they were previously. Private renters in England paid an average of £1,369 a month in 2024, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.

That’s up by 9.2% compared to a year earlier and means people had to find an extra £115 a month on average. Rents across Devon are on the rise, but they’re not growing as fast as the rest of the country.

The average home in West Devon cost £814 a month to rent privately in 2024. That’s 9.4% more expensive - or £69 extra a month - than 2023.

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Rents across the rest of the county have grown much less steeply. Exeter has seen the next largest percentage increase at 5.9%.

The typical private rent in the area is now £1,256 a month, £70 more than a year earlier. North Devon has seen prices rise by 5.5% (£42 a month), Torbay by 5.3% (£43 a month), Mid Devon by 5.2% (£42 a month) and South Hams by 5.1% (£46 a month).

Teignbridge had the lowest rent increases in our county. The average private rent there grew by 1.7% to £892 a month, which works out at an extra £15 a month.

Tom Darling, Director of the Renters’ Reform Coalition, said: “The day after the Renters’ Rights Bill passes its report stage in the House of Commons, new data reveals the scale of the ongoing affordability crisis for renters – average rents in England increased by over 9% over the past year. The bill that progressed will bring in some much-needed changes, but as it stands it fails to address the biggest problem for most renters – the outrageous cost of renting a home.

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"With rents wildly outstripping inflation, are private renters meant to stand by and say nothing as we get poorer relative to everyone else? If the Government won’t cap rents through the Renters’ Rights Bill they should establish a National Rental Affordability Commission, to look at all options to get a grip on the situation and actually bring rents down relative to wages.”

Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: “Today’s figures show that yet another wave of sky-high rent rises has come crashing down on renters. Every day we hear from tenants who have been forced out of their homes when their landlord hiked up their rent – more than 300,000 renters had to move in the past year because of a rent increase they couldn’t afford.

“The Renters’ Rights Bill could be the sea change England’s 11 million renters have been waiting for. For years, tenants have weathered a storm of insecurity, unfair evictions, and extortionate up-front costs.

"The government is right to finally turn the tide, but the Bill must go further to ensure these unfair rent hikes cannot continue once it becomes law. Tenants need a watertight commitment that they won’t be forced out of their homes unfairly.

"Rent increases within tenancies must be brought in line with either inflation or wage growth if the government truly intends to deliver the security renters have long been promised.”