Rent in SE1, London
SE1 is a postcode district mostly in Southwark (it also reaches into Lambeth), with wards including Borough & Bankside, Chaucer, Faraday, Kennington. A two-bedroom home here rents for a median £2,500 a month, +11% against the Southwark figure and +23% against London as a whole.
Rent by home size
| Home | SE1 | Southwark | London |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | £2,024 | £1,800 | £1,684 |
| 2 bedrooms | £2,500 | £2,250 | £2,036 |
| 3 bedrooms | £2,850 | £2,750 | £2,472 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £3,850 | £3,500 | £3,353 |
Median monthly rent of private lets recorded by Rent Officers between April 2025 and March 2026. Counts are rounded to the nearest 10; with few rents a single expensive or cheap flat moves the median, and ONS advises caution when comparing areas. The London column is an average of the borough figures weighted by the number of rents. Source: ONS – Private rental market in London, April 2025 to March 2026.
Wards in SE1 include
Borough & Bankside · Chaucer · Faraday · Kennington · London Bridge & West Bermondsey · North Bermondsey
Who lives in Southwark
Census 2021, whole borough (Southwark vs London). Postcode districts have no census figures of their own.
| Owner-occupied homes | 31.3% | 46.8% |
| Private rentals | 28.7% | 30.0% |
| Social housing rentals | 39.7% | 23.1% |
| One-person households | 33.1% | 29.3% |
| Children under 15 | 15.8% | 18.1% |
| Aged 65 and over | 8.3% | 11.9% |
Nearby postcode districts
- SE17 · Southwark · 2 bedrooms £2,150
- EC4V · City of London · 2 bedrooms £3,200
- SE11 · Lambeth · 2 bedrooms £2,350
- EC2Y · City of London · 2 bedrooms £3,098
- E1W · Tower Hamlets · 2 bedrooms £2,560
- EC1A · Islington · 2 bedrooms £3,000
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