Where the LHA reaches · October 2026

How far the LHA reaches, council by council.

Of 590,315 homes advertised to rent in 350 councils across Great Britain in the six months to 31 October 2026, 14,821 (2.5%) could be let within the Local Housing Allowance for their size.

Of 526,132 homes for sale at the end of October 2026, 21,441 would return 7% gross or more a year if let at the LHA.

Find your council How it is counted

01 · Counted
Every home, counted once
Every home advertised to rent or for sale in Great Britain, read from the portals and counted once however many sites listed it. Nothing is modelled.
02 · Against the rate
Each home against its own LHA
A home is judged against the Local Housing Allowance for its size in its own rental market area, so a council that spans two areas is read home by home.
03 · Monthly
A new month, every month
Each completed month is added when it closes and never changed afterwards. Ask for your council's figures by email and they arrive once a month.
04 · Open
The method on the page
The rules, the floors below which a figure is withheld, and the caveats are written here. Cite it, dispute it, send us your own figures.

350 councils · the six months to 31 October 2026

Homes to rent within the LHA, and homes for sale that would work at it.

Sorted with the councils where the LHA reaches least at the top. Choose a column heading to sort by it, or type a council's name. Each council has its own page with every size and the trend.

Council	Homes to rent	Within the LHA	2-bed gap	For sale	Work at 7%
Blaenau Gwent	364	0%	£220	455	5
Broxbourne	687	0%	£400	843	8
Gosport	526	0%	£255	688	56
Great Yarmouth	579	0%	£225	1,274	161
Newark and Sherwood	746	0%	£175	1,139	17
Ribble Valley	242	0%	£275	438	2
West Lancashire	335	0%	£250	656	29
Wrexham	389	0%	£270	753	3
Blackburn with Darwen	779	0.1%	£225	729	29
Newport	1,047	0.1%	£300	1,157	20
Surrey Heath	739	0.1%	£375	749	13
Burnley	582	0.2%	£150	512	65
Cannock Chase	456	0.2%	£225	584	2
Carmarthenshire	880	0.2%	£236	1,878	31
Fylde	493	0.2%	£208	810	27
Pembrokeshire	503	0.2%	£265	1,687	33
Vale of Glamorgan	656	0.2%	£309	1,211	15
Brentwood	649	0.3%	£600	1,079	1
City of London	770	0.3%	£1,456	372	1
Dartford	1,406	0.3%	£505	1,001	10
Dudley	1,533	0.3%	£250	1,908	57
Kingston upon Hull, City of	2,105	0.3%	£175	1,202	151
Rhondda Cynon Taf	1,167	0.3%	£225	1,502	41
Rother	615	0.3%	£300	1,630	63
Colchester	1,815	0.4%	£305	1,754	75
Cotswold	563	0.4%	£400	901	10
Flintshire	478	0.4%	£205	812	12
Gloucester	955	0.4%	£275	790	29
Neath Port Talbot	501	0.4%	£300	695	18
Renfrewshire	832	0.4%	£270	487	67
Warrington	1,181	0.4%	£285	1,339	24
Barnsley	1,311	0.5%	£250	1,041	59
Blaby	403	0.5%	£275	828	4
Bracknell Forest	1,128	0.5%	£350	942	28
Bridgend	594	0.5%	£275	766	17
Cumberland	1,051	0.5%	£220	1,500	116
Fareham	560	0.5%	£307	953	10
Harlow	627	0.5%	£375	447	10
Hastings	1,024	0.5%	£250	1,154	51
Monmouthshire	385	0.5%	£250	900	6
Oadby and Wigston	392	0.5%	£297	512	0
Rossendale	364	0.5%	£250	531	17
Rutland	216	0.5%	£200	318	2
Sevenoaks	762	0.5%	£475	1,255	1
Chesterfield	541	0.6%	£225	734	7
Derby	2,559	0.6%	£255	1,402	70
Newcastle-under-Lyme	617	0.6%	£308	751	28
North Northamptonshire	2,980	0.6%	£180	2,922	64
Northumberland	1,301	0.6%	£175	2,037	105
Stevenage	656	0.6%	£400	542	14
Castle Point	296	0.7%	£325	632	6
Folkestone and Hythe	871	0.7%	£405	1,316	15
Harborough	557	0.7%	£264	799	0
Oxford	2,280	0.7%	£525	1,006	6
Powys	404	0.7%	£210	1,202	23
Redditch	436	0.7%	£300	400	8
Reigate and Banstead	1,186	0.7%	£450	1,571	17
South Ayrshire	295	0.7%	£175	307	50
South Staffordshire	303	0.7%	£250	627	3
Thanet	1,501	0.7%	£225	1,746	33
Three Rivers	606	0.7%	£350	967	4
Thurrock	1,026	0.7%	£405	925	28
Babergh	496	0.8%	£233	896	10
East Staffordshire	850	0.8%	£175	1,069	47
East Suffolk	1,511	0.8%	£233	2,692	110
Medway	2,276	0.8%	£350	1,793	41
North Ayrshire	369	0.8%	£175	602	100
North Kesteven	600	0.8%	£195	1,367	15
Norwich	1,903	0.8%	£355	1,129	39
Oldham	894	0.8%	£298	1,053	15
South Derbyshire	603	0.8%	£203	939	6
Spelthorne	1,458	0.8%	£438	1,026	14
Stroud	594	0.8%	£250	967	8
Swansea	1,737	0.8%	£300	1,464	51
Torbay	1,194	0.8%	£220	2,228	93
Westminster	13,724	0.8%	£1,506	7,178	23
Wirral	1,537	0.8%	£225	1,758	74
Wolverhampton	1,571	0.8%	£250	1,072	54
Basildon	881	0.9%	£400	1,327	27
Caerphilly	549	0.9%	£255	993	10
Darlington	927	0.9%	£200	789	63
East Hertfordshire	1,141	0.9%	£400	1,644	2
Exeter	1,452	0.9%	£355	1,129	20
Ipswich	1,382	0.9%	£233	1,123	134
Milton Keynes	3,333	0.9%	£325	2,132	60
Mole Valley	636	0.9%	£388	950	22
Newcastle upon Tyne	3,801	0.9%	£375	1,288	111
Rochford	322	0.9%	£425	599	5
Rushcliffe	961	0.9%	£300	1,138	4
South Cambridgeshire	428	0.9%	£450	456	2
South Ribble	431	0.9%	£212	632	5
Staffordshire Moorlands	325	0.9%	£265	685	5
Stoke-on-Trent	1,613	0.9%	£245	1,134	85
Tamworth	337	0.9%	£288	349	1
Teignbridge	651	0.9%	£250	1,722	39
Bromsgrove	418	1%	£300	667	1
Calderdale	1,206	1%	£200	1,163	83
Conwy	503	1%	£245	1,271	11
Doncaster	1,938	1%	£200	2,032	87
Dover	732	1%	£300	1,349	36
Hart	591	1%	£337	667	7
Isle of Wight	1,209	1%	£200	2,470	121
Pendle	498	1%	£150	572	25
Peterborough	2,404	1%	£225	1,786	147
Preston	1,407	1%	£220	909	87
South Norfolk	700	1%	£255	1,529	18
Southwark	7,974	1%	£833	3,706	69
St. Helens	1,029	1%	£225	889	35
Telford and Wrekin	1,111	1%	£230	1,564	52
Walsall	1,329	1%	£225	1,154	71
York	1,785	1%	£375	1,966	11
Broadland	472	1.1%	£280	1,136	4
Chorley	566	1.1%	£220	637	7
Denbighshire	353	1.1%	£225	672	12
East Lindsey	624	1.1%	£180	2,315	63
Gedling	653	1.1%	£200	1,106	21
Mansfield	737	1.1%	£200	916	34
Nottingham	4,674	1.1%	£250	1,994	206
Portsmouth	2,474	1.1%	£345	1,663	98
Rotherham	1,196	1.1%	£200	1,285	40
Stockport	1,742	1.1%	£300	1,275	10
Test Valley	654	1.1%	£250	1,040	18
Tewkesbury	536	1.1%	£250	1,028	16
Wigan	1,851	1.1%	£250	1,707	33
Charnwood	1,134	1.2%	£225	1,473	18
Derbyshire Dales	337	1.2%	£230	740	2
Epsom and Ewell	586	1.2%	£455	727	8
Kensington and Chelsea	8,512	1.2%	£1,606	4,084	22
Lichfield	503	1.2%	£336	824	5
Lincoln	1,072	1.2%	£268	893	38
North Hertfordshire	955	1.2%	£325	874	10
Solihull	1,185	1.2%	£275	1,517	35
Stirling	511	1.2%	£345	262	14
Ashford	957	1.3%	£300	1,144	28
Barking and Dagenham	2,458	1.3%	£500	1,056	41
Basingstoke and Deane	1,421	1.3%	£310	1,020	34
Chelmsford	1,279	1.3%	£400	1,327	15
Newham	5,741	1.3%	£600	2,929	118
Sandwell	1,786	1.3%	£225	1,429	81
Stafford	835	1.3%	£225	1,151	11
West Lothian	480	1.3%	£270	768	22
Worcester	847	1.3%	£275	600	20
Amber Valley	797	1.4%	£180	1,068	22
Cardiff	5,760	1.4%	£275	2,477	109
Cornwall	3,594	1.4%	£230	8,877	356
Dorset	1,841	1.4%	£250	4,680	73
Elmbridge	1,342	1.4%	£478	1,707	19
Epping Forest	961	1.4%	£450	1,484	9
Greenwich	4,719	1.4%	£550	3,271	80
Havering	1,696	1.4%	£350	1,758	40
Huntingdonshire	1,518	1.4%	£205	1,499	46
New Forest	835	1.4%	£325	2,194	51
Southend-on-Sea	2,152	1.4%	£325	1,863	60
Tower Hamlets	13,495	1.4%	£742	6,160	174
Westmorland and Furness	1,096	1.4%	£229	2,313	92
Ashfield	711	1.5%	£180	923	35
Central Bedfordshire	1,614	1.5%	£275	2,279	28
Cheltenham	1,723	1.5%	£350	1,273	23
Crawley	783	1.5%	£350	651	24
North Norfolk	525	1.5%	£180	1,637	58
Rushmoor	895	1.5%	£300	638	51
Shropshire	1,777	1.5%	£205	3,165	22
South Kesteven	1,097	1.5%	£175	1,451	39
Swindon	1,985	1.5%	£240	1,520	125
Trafford	2,336	1.5%	£420	1,772	52
Bolsover	487	1.6%	£175	676	22
Broxtowe	867	1.6%	£225	1,004	11
Cambridge	2,387	1.6%	£650	1,139	16
Croydon	5,014	1.6%	£420	3,511	168
Havant	566	1.6%	£255	1,036	44
High Peak	446	1.6%	£244	884	13
Knowsley	614	1.6%	£255	563	32
Mid Suffolk	551	1.6%	£233	1,275	13
Somerset	3,666	1.6%	£250	5,779	111
West Northamptonshire	3,140	1.6%	£225	2,736	108
Wiltshire	2,610	1.6%	£270	3,790	33
Windsor and Maidenhead	1,854	1.6%	£400	1,929	21
Bedford	1,661	1.7%	£275	1,128	22
Bolton	1,695	1.7%	£275	1,698	64
Malvern Hills	420	1.7%	£231	816	5
North Devon	578	1.7%	£150	1,666	44
Redbridge	3,623	1.7%	£500	1,619	35
South Hams	596	1.7%	£275	1,492	30
Tameside	1,144	1.7%	£275	1,026	9
Bromley	2,557	1.8%	£400	2,800	46
Cheshire West and Chester	1,934	1.8%	£275	2,273	55
Guildford	1,524	1.8%	£425	1,157	26
Hinckley and Bosworth	660	1.8%	£223	1,088	14
Hyndburn	448	1.8%	£175	449	63
Merton	3,309	1.8%	£550	1,970	20
North Tyneside	1,168	1.8%	£200	948	99
Rugby	835	1.8%	£200	683	22
South Lanarkshire	1,092	1.8%	£175	1,351	203
St Albans	1,329	1.8%	£421	1,355	12
Torfaen	227	1.8%	£285	416	13
Wokingham	1,186	1.8%	£305	1,106	9
Bassetlaw	676	1.9%	£150	963	31
Breckland	803	1.9%	£173	1,409	45
Cheshire East	2,469	1.9%	£225	3,250	52
East Riding of Yorkshire	1,616	1.9%	£200	3,503	67
Kirklees	2,508	1.9%	£196	2,352	115
Liverpool	6,159	1.9%	£300	4,009	416
Merthyr Tydfil	308	1.9%	£200	306	10
Plymouth	1,563	1.9%	£275	1,453	107
Sheffield	4,963	1.9%	£280	2,253	232
Swale	864	1.9%	£250	1,259	52
West Berkshire	1,231	1.9%	£305	1,070	23
Woking	1,295	1.9%	£350	692	25
Hammersmith and Fulham	6,834	2%	£925	3,661	24
Highland	304	2%	£250	1,437	98
Leicester	4,150	2%	£300	1,911	148
North East Lincolnshire	920	2%	£120	1,677	238
Sutton	1,903	2%	£450	1,585	25
Wychavon	548	2%	£225	1,094	21
Eastleigh	862	2.1%	£275	957	21
North East Derbyshire	377	2.1%	£225	741	7
Richmond upon Thames	2,761	2.1%	£655	2,148	10
Sunderland	1,787	2.1%	£175	1,318	222
Tandridge	435	2.1%	£350	883	10
Wandsworth	10,361	2.1%	£800	5,610	100
Adur	267	2.2%	£250	513	28
Lambeth	7,916	2.2%	£700	4,272	93
Herefordshire, County of	1,020	2.3%	£250	2,063	21
Horsham	871	2.3%	£300	1,282	22
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	1,017	2.3%	£175	2,037	54
Nuneaton and Bedworth	777	2.3%	£170	1,171	30
Rochdale	1,109	2.3%	£223	1,022	27
Warwick	1,741	2.3%	£300	1,150	15
Boston	622	2.4%	£110	666	88
Ceredigion	412	2.4%	£289	1,054	17
Manchester	11,742	2.4%	£375	4,486	320
North Lincolnshire	621	2.4%	£130	1,208	47
Runnymede	923	2.4%	£338	911	15
Wakefield	1,873	2.4%	£200	2,344	119
Welwyn Hatfield	906	2.4%	£400	1,035	21
Fife	1,192	2.5%	£205	1,321	152
Melton	356	2.5%	£175	541	4
Perth and Kinross	651	2.5%	£161	844	89
South Holland	610	2.5%	£150	1,245	31
West Dunbartonshire	240	2.5%	£155	219	52
Winchester	1,146	2.5%	£350	1,354	18
Birmingham	12,915	2.6%	£350	6,812	480
Blackpool	1,209	2.6%	£133	1,136	207
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	5,145	2.6%	£275	4,773	193
Braintree	921	2.6%	£244	1,558	47
Dundee City	1,640	2.6%	£135	437	97
Gravesham	767	2.6%	£305	517	23
North West Leicestershire	536	2.6%	£175	923	2
Salford	6,425	2.6%	£275	3,276	390
Stratford-on-Avon	815	2.6%	£250	1,282	24
Bury	1,051	2.7%	£275	1,138	31
Canterbury	1,614	2.7%	£305	1,945	86
City of Edinburgh	6,720	2.7%	£355	3,274	245
East Devon	874	2.7%	£234	2,237	33
Middlesbrough	932	2.7%	£150	791	175
North Lanarkshire	903	2.7%	£175	792	121
Worthing	1,100	2.7%	£350	1,201	61
Wyre	640	2.7%	£183	1,298	64
Wyre Forest	556	2.7%	£150	885	23
Buckinghamshire	4,101	2.8%	£300	5,644	117
Camden	8,329	2.8%	£906	3,070	15
Cherwell	1,365	2.8%	£250	1,599	51
Erewash	789	2.8%	£150	934	33
Moray	248	2.8%	£100	627	78
Redcar and Cleveland	686	2.8%	£125	964	130
Uttlesford	564	2.8%	£250	1,121	12
Vale of White Horse	1,089	2.8%	£225	1,263	41
Chichester	888	2.9%	£325	1,840	34
Hounslow	4,978	2.9%	£475	2,724	61
Islington	6,323	2.9%	£806	2,151	20
Scottish Borders	340	2.9%	£150	698	57
County Durham	3,109	3%	£150	3,705	491
Waltham Forest	3,127	3%	£500	1,705	27
Bradford	2,959	3.1%	£200	2,345	182
Coventry	3,637	3.1%	£225	2,130	81
Mid Sussex	1,105	3.1%	£275	1,402	16
Sefton	1,733	3.1%	£205	1,445	124
Isle of Anglesey	218	3.2%	£200	825	26
Lancaster	804	3.2%	£225	1,565	126
North Yorkshire	3,811	3.2%	£189	6,212	159
Stockton-on-Tees	1,253	3.2%	£175	1,304	136
Wealden	999	3.2%	£200	1,989	23
Luton	2,748	3.4%	£325	1,372	102
Slough	2,004	3.4%	£274	1,271	82
Hillingdon	3,855	3.5%	£400	2,419	57
Reading	3,384	3.5%	£305	1,216	75
South Oxfordshire	996	3.5%	£275	1,563	29
Bristol, City of	6,446	3.6%	£355	3,102	120
Gwynedd	336	3.6%	£175	1,490	78
Bath and North East Somerset	1,689	3.7%	£420	1,314	22
Bexley	1,496	3.7%	£300	1,376	121
East Ayrshire	343	3.8%	£150	480	105
Hackney	5,207	3.8%	£750	2,349	33
Mid Devon	467	3.9%	£139	1,027	15
Southampton	3,673	3.9%	£325	1,590	194
Arun	1,111	4%	£250	2,260	149
Enfield	2,860	4%	£350	2,218	101
Falkirk	427	4%	£145	428	45
Haringey	4,883	4%	£556	2,160	14
Maidstone	1,222	4%	£345	1,608	55
Tendring	1,033	4%	£155	2,114	228
Tonbridge and Malling	810	4%	£395	1,259	4
Watford	1,480	4%	£400	1,053	28
Eastbourne	1,105	4.1%	£250	1,396	82
Dumfries and Galloway	259	4.2%	£200	771	56
West Suffolk	2,204	4.2%	£320	1,491	35
Harrow	3,768	4.3%	£400	2,310	51
Barnet	7,087	4.4%	£450	4,659	45
Hertsmere	930	4.4%	£350	1,136	10
Gateshead	1,411	4.5%	£150	820	137
Torridge	423	4.5%	£116	1,223	37
East Renfrewshire	229	4.8%	£231	120	14
Kingston upon Thames	2,530	4.9%	£355	1,648	38
Waverley	1,069	4.9%	£325	1,388	20
Ealing	7,123	5%	£475	3,857	97
Tunbridge Wells	1,165	5%	£325	1,444	16
Brighton and Hove	5,890	5.1%	£350	3,215	111
West Oxfordshire	772	5.3%	£170	880	28
East Dunbartonshire	294	5.4%	£145	228	16
Fenland	824	5.5%	£125	1,513	77
North Somerset	1,429	5.5%	£205	2,167	55
North Warwickshire	254	5.5%	£225	434	8
Dacorum	1,044	5.7%	£200	1,586	77
Maldon	229	5.7%	£250	681	9
Halton	601	5.8%	£185	634	55
Forest of Dean	375	5.9%	£125	1,238	13
Clackmannanshire	201	6%	£145	168	19
Lewisham	4,053	6%	£350	2,705	137
Leeds	9,532	6.3%	£175	4,768	468
East Hampshire	677	6.5%	£261	1,333	27
Inverclyde	336	6.8%	£100	252	55
Glasgow City	6,285	7.9%	£245	1,693	501
South Gloucestershire	1,869	8%	£155	1,557	65
Brent	7,114	9.2%	£450	3,114	96
Aberdeen City	3,228	9.5%	£75	518	214
West Lindsey	609	9.5%	£100	1,326	79
South Tyneside	701	13.1%	£100	953	164
Lewes	574	13.2%	£150	1,184	58
Argyll and Bute	152	17.8%	£150	679	142
East Cambridgeshire	559	17.9%	£100	764	31
West Devon	282	18.4%	£46	784	21
Hartlepool	546	19.6%	£25	582	133
Aberdeenshire	478	19.7%	£25	590	173
Angus	401	26.4%	£4	439	130
East Lothian	360	26.4%	£30	812	152
Midlothian	245	29.8%	£30	632	200
Na h-Eileanan Siar	2	—	—	150	32
Orkney Islands	2	—	—	74	7
Isles of Scilly	0	—	—	4	0
Shetland Islands	0	—	—	27	1

A dash means too few homes to give a figure (a share needs 10 judged homes, a gap 20); the count is still shown. "Work at 7%" is twelve months at the LHA divided by the asking price, before any cost, so it is a screen, not a return. Advertised rents usually sit above the rents finally agreed.

How it is counted

The method, in full.

Every figure on these pages is a count or a percentile of advertised rents and prices against the published Local Housing Allowance. No figure is modelled, estimated or produced by AI. Method version lha_reach_v1.

Homes to rent. Every home advertised to let in Great Britain whose latest listing came to market in the 6 months to the month's end, counted once by home however many sites listed it. Self-contained homes of up to four bedrooms; rooms, student lets, and the market layer's own exclusions (auctions, shared ownership, retirement homes, prices out of range) are left out.
Within the LHA. A home is within the LHA when its asking rent is at or below the LHA monthly rate for its size (studios read as one bedroom) in its own broad rental market area, in force at the month's end. The rates are the DWP's published tables.
The gap. The LHA is set to reach the 30th percentile of local rents. The gap is the 30th percentile of (asking rent minus LHA rate) across the council's homes of that size: zero means the LHA reaches; a positive gap is the shortfall, in pounds a month.
Homes for sale. Every home advertised for sale at the month's end and not sold subject to contract or under offer, counted once. It works at LHA rents when twelve months at the LHA rate for its size, divided by its asking price, is 7% or more, before any cost.
Withheld, not estimated. A share rests on at least 10 judged homes and a gap on at least 20; below that the count is shown and the figure is not. A home whose rental market area or rate is not known is counted but not judged.
Advertised, not agreed. These are asking rents and asking prices. Rents finally agreed usually sit below advertised rents, so the true gap is likely to be smaller than shown; prices paid usually sit below asking prices, so slightly more homes may work than shown.
Never changed. A month's figures are published once and kept as published. Each month carries a record of the market data and LHA tables it was computed from.

Sources: homes advertised on the main property portals, read by Viiyoo's market layer; DWP Local Housing Allowance rates (Open Government Licence v3.0); ONS Postcode Directory and the University of Glasgow's BRMA lookup for placing postcodes. Cite as: Viiyoo, Where the LHA reaches, October 2026, www.viiyoo.com/lha/. If your council holds achieved rents and would like them shown beside these figures, labelled as yours, write to us.

Behind the counts

The homes themselves are a brief away.

The index counts the homes for sale that would work at LHA rents. Viiyoo's buying plan names them, costs each one after grant, checks its lease, flood risk and licensing, and comes back as a pack a cabinet can follow. The first brief is free, for up to 25 homes.

Ask for a brief on your patch What councils use Viiyoo for

How far the LHA reaches, council by council.

Every home, counted once

Each home against its own LHA

A new month, every month

The method on the page

Homes to rent within the LHA, and homes for sale that would work at it.

The method, in full.

The homes themselves are a brief away.

Your council's figures, once a month