Rent by tube line and travel zone

The cheapest stop on the London rail network is Elm Park in Havering, where a one-bedroom averages £1,217 a month. The dearest is West Brompton at £2,640 — £1,423 a month apart on the same network.

432 London stations across 20 lines · rent figures August 2026 · network data 2026-09-22

Every line, ranked by its cheapest stop

Average monthly rent for a one-bedroom property in the borough each stop sits in, August 2026. The London average is £1,760.

London rail lines ranked by the average one-bedroom rent at their cheapest stop
Line	Stops	Cheapest stop	From	Middle stop	Spread
District line London Underground	60	Elm Park Havering	£1,217	£1,992	£1,423
Elizabeth line Elizabeth line	41	Gidea Park Havering	£1,217	£1,629	£1,331
Liberty line London Overground	3	Emerson Park Havering	£1,217	£1,217	—
London Trams London Trams	38	Beddington Lane Sutton	£1,239	£1,265	£400
Central line London Underground	49	Ruislip Gardens Hillingdon	£1,252	£1,629	£1,388
Metropolitan line London Underground	34	Eastcote Hillingdon	£1,252	£1,394	£1,296
Piccadilly line London Underground	53	Eastcote Hillingdon	£1,252	£1,629	£1,388
Windrush line London Overground	29	Norwood Junction Croydon	£1,265	£1,876	£913
Hammersmith & City line London Underground	29	Barking Barking and Dagenham	£1,377	£2,000	£1,263
Suffragette line London Overground	13	Barking Barking and Dagenham	£1,377	£1,630	£801
Bakerloo line London Underground	25	Harrow & Wealdstone Harrow	£1,394	£1,882	£1,154
Jubilee line London Underground	27	Canons Park Harrow	£1,394	£1,876	£1,154
Lioness line London Overground	19	Harrow & Wealdstone Harrow	£1,394	£1,577	£660
Victoria line London Underground	16	Blackhorse Road Waltham Forest	£1,400	£2,054	£1,148
Weaver line London Overground	25	Chingford Waltham Forest	£1,400	£1,531	£601
DLR Docklands Light Railway	45	Deptford Bridge Lewisham	£1,457	£1,630	£535
Northern line London Underground	52	Brent Cross Barnet	£1,500	£1,882	£1,048
Mildmay line London Overground	28	Brondesbury Brent	£1,577	£2,000	£1,063
Waterloo & City line London Underground	2	Waterloo Lambeth	£1,882	£1,882	—
Circle line London Underground	36	Tower Hill Tower Hamlets	£1,992	£2,548	£648

“Middle stop” is the median stop on the line by borough rent. It is the fairer comparison between lines: one outlying stop in a cheap borough can make an otherwise expensive line look affordable.

Rent by travel zone

Every London station in each zone, and the median borough rent across them. Stations on a zone boundary are counted in both zones.

Median one-bedroom rent and station count by London travel zone
Zone	Stations	Boroughs	Median 1-bed	Cheapest stop
Zone 1	70	10	£2,548	Borough Southwark · £1,876
Zone 2	143	17	£1,992	Brockley Lewisham · £1,457
Zone 3	104	18	£1,630	Crystal Palace Bromley · £1,312
Zone 4	69	15	£1,500	Norwood Junction Croydon · £1,265
Zone 5	30	10	£1,394	Eastcote Hillingdon · £1,252
Zone 6	23	4	£1,252	Elm Park Havering · £1,217

Common questions

Which London station has the cheapest rent nearby?

Elm Park on District line sits in Havering, where a one-bedroom property averages £1,217 a month — the lowest of any stop on the London rail network (August 2026, ONS).

Which tube line is cheapest to live on?

Liberty line. The borough rent at its middle stop is £1,217 for a one-bedroom, against £2,548 on Circle line. Comparing the middle stop rather than the cheapest one avoids letting a single outlying station make a line look affordable.

How much cheaper is zone 5 than zone 2?

About £598 a month for a one-bedroom. The median borough figure across zone 2 stations is £1,992, against £1,394 across zone 5 stations (August 2026).

How is rent matched to a station?

ONS publishes average rent by borough, not by station, so each of the 432 London stations is matched to the borough it physically sits in and shows that borough's figure. Two stops in the same borough therefore share a number — the value is in seeing where along a line the cheaper boroughs fall.

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How the rent figures are matched: rent is published by ONS at borough level, not by station. Each stop is matched to the borough it physically sits in, and shows that borough’s average — so two stops in the same borough share a figure, and the number describes the area around the station rather than the street outside it.

Stations, lines and zones: Transport for London Unified API, retrieved 2026-09-22. Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights 2019. Each station is matched to its local authority using postcodes.io (ONS postcode directory, Open Government Licence v3.0).

Rent: Office for National Statistics — Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics, August 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Read the full methodology — how stations are matched to boroughs, what these figures do and do not measure, which of these pages are indexed and why, and how to report a figure that looks wrong.