Renting in Croydon, in numbers.
Here's what the Croydon market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£1,715
a month, 31% below the London median
Typical two-bed
£1,800
the most common home here
Typical size
677 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Croydon.
Median asking rent, with the middle half of the market shown as a bar. Only sizes with enough listings to be worth a number appear.
Middle half of the marketMedian
What a budget reaches here
A median says what a size costs. This says how much of Croydon a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
What Croydon asked, month by month.
Each listing counts once, in the month we first saw it, at the price it first asked. The latest month runs to 5 October 2026.
| Month | Median rent, all sizes | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £1,650 | 71 |
| July 2026 | £1,670 | 99 |
| August 2026 | £1,600 | 65 |
| September 2026 | £1,600 | 139 |
| October 2026 | £1,898 | 158 |
Between 65 and 158 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
When the price moves, it usually moves down.
Of the price changes we've recorded in Croydon, 76% were reductions. Asking rents here soften after listing more often than they firm up, which is worth remembering before you treat the number in the ad as final.
When one does fall in Croydon, it typically drops 5.1%, or about £100 a month, usually within 32 days of us first seeing the listing. Across London the typical fall is 5.7% and takes about 31 days, so Croydon runs close to the London typical. Based on 51 reductions of 1% or more.
Croydon rents around these neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhoods around the stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Croydon listing.
- Croydon
Also known as Sandilands, Waddon, Ampere Way, Centrale, Church Street and George Street. Postcode CR0.
- Addiscombe
Also known as East Croydon, Lebanon Road, Addiscombe East and Addiscombe West. Postcode CR0.
- South Norwood
Also known as Norwood Junction, Woodside, Blackhorse Lane, Harrington Road and Selhurst. Postcode SE25.
- Thornton Heath
Also known as Bensham Manor and West Thornton. Postcode CR7.
Stations nearby: Gipsy Hill, Sanderstead.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Croydon listings gathered from estate agents across London between 8 March to 5 October 2026. Snapshot taken 5 October 2026.
It's what agents are marketing, not a census. It skews toward flats and toward the agents whose sites we watch, so it describes the market you'd actually meet while searching, not every home in Croydon. Medians throughout, because a handful of prime listings pull an average upward and tell you nothing about your search.
Rents below £500 or above £15,000 a month are set aside as data errors or ultra-prime outliers. Where a figure would rest on too few listings to trust, we leave it blank rather than guess.
Closest to Croydon.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest Croydon, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.
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