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Rent by station on the Windrush line

Name: Average rent by station on the Windrush line
Creator: FTR London
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

The cheapest stop on the Windrush line is Norwood Junction, where a one-bedroom averages £1,265 a month in Croydon. The dearest is Highbury & Islington at £2,178 — a gap of £913 a month along a single line.

Running between West Croydon and Highbury & Islington, the Windrush line passes through Croydon, Bromley, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Islington. Rent falls from £1,997 at its zone 1 stops to £1,312 at its zone 4 stops.

29 stations · zones 1 to 5 · 9 London boroughs · rent figures August 2026

Cheapest stop

£1,265

Norwood Junction

Dearest stop

£2,178

Highbury & Islington

Spread along the line

£913

per month, one-bedroom

London average

£1,760

one-bedroom, all boroughs

Moving out 3 zones saves about £685 a month

Boroughs at this line’s zone 1 stops average £1,997 for a one-bedroom. At its zone 4 stops they average £1,312 — the same line, the same journey, on a longer ride.

Boroughs on the Windrush line, cheapest first

Average monthly rent for a one-bedroom property, August 2026, against the London average of £1,760.

London boroughs served by the Windrush line, ranked by average one-bedroom rent
Borough	Stops on line	1-bed average	vs London	Share of local pay
Croydon	2	£1,265	−£495	35.2%
Bromley	3	£1,312	−£448	31.6%
Lewisham	6	£1,457	−£303	39.9%
Southwark	6	£1,876	+£116	49.2%
Lambeth	2	£1,882	+£122	49.2%
Wandsworth	1	£1,938	+£178	48.6%
Tower Hamlets	4	£1,992	+£232	52.1%
Hackney	3	£2,001	+£241	52.4%
Islington	2	£2,178	+£418	53.8%

Share of local pay: one-bed rent against median gross full-time pay of residents, ONS ASHE 2024. How this is calculated.

Every stop on the Windrush line, cheapest first

Rent is published by borough, so stops in the same borough share a figure. The ranking is what changes: it shows where along the line the cheaper boroughs actually are.

Every station on the Windrush line with its travel zone, borough and average one-bedroom rent
#	Station	Zone	Borough	1-bed average	On FTR now
1	Norwood Junction	Zone 4	Croydon	£1,265	1
2	West Croydon	Zone 5	Croydon	£1,265	1
3	Anerley	Zone 4	Bromley	£1,312	—
4	Crystal Palace	Zones 3–4	Bromley	£1,312	1
5	Penge West	Zone 4	Bromley	£1,312	—
6	Brockley	Zone 2	Lewisham	£1,457	2
7	Forest Hill	Zone 3	Lewisham	£1,457	1
8	Honor Oak Park	Zone 3	Lewisham	£1,457	1
9	New Cross ELL	Zone 2	Lewisham	£1,457	2
10	New Cross Gate	Zone 2	Lewisham	£1,457	2
11	Sydenham	Zone 3	Lewisham	£1,457	—
12	Canada Water	Zone 2	Southwark	£1,876	2
13	Denmark Hill	Zone 2	Southwark	£1,876	1
14	Peckham Rye	Zone 2	Southwark	£1,876	—
15	Queens Road Peckham	Zone 2	Southwark	£1,876	1
16	Rotherhithe	Zone 2	Southwark	£1,876	2
17	Surrey Quays	Zone 2	Southwark	£1,876	2
18	Clapham High Street	Zone 2	Lambeth	£1,882	6
19	Wandsworth Road	Zone 2	Lambeth	£1,882	3
20	Clapham Junction	Zone 2	Wandsworth	£1,938	3
21	Shadwell	Zone 2	Tower Hamlets	£1,992	3
22	Shoreditch High Street	Zone 1	Tower Hamlets	£1,992	4
23	Wapping	Zone 2	Tower Hamlets	£1,992	4
24	Whitechapel	Zone 2	Tower Hamlets	£1,992	5
25	Dalston Junction	Zone 2	Hackney	£2,001	4
26	Haggerston	Zone 2	Hackney	£2,001	7
27	Hoxton	Zones 1–2	Hackney	£2,001	7
28	Canonbury	Zone 2	Islington	£2,178	4
29	Highbury & Islington	Zone 2	Islington	£2,178	3

Rent on the Windrush line by property size

The middle stop on the line at each size, and the cheapest stop for that size — which is not always the same station, because boroughs price sizes differently.

Median and cheapest average rent along the Windrush line, by number of bedrooms
Size	Middle stop	Cheapest stop	From	London average
1 bedroom	£1,876	Norwood Junction Croydon	£1,265	£1,760
2 bedroom	£2,348	Norwood Junction Croydon	£1,573	£2,232
3 bedroom	£2,732	Norwood Junction Croydon	£1,858	£2,643
4 or more bedroom	£3,378	Norwood Junction Croydon	£2,667	£3,646

Rent by travel zone on the Windrush line

The median of the borough figures for this line’s stops in each zone. Stations on a zone boundary count in both.

Median one-bedroom rent by travel zone along the Windrush line
Zone	Stops	Median 1-bed	Cheapest stop in this zone	Listings nearby
Zone 1	2	£1,997	Shoreditch High Street Tower Hamlets · £1,992	11
Zone 2	20	£1,882	Brockley Lewisham · £1,457	63
Zone 3	4	£1,457	Crystal Palace Bromley · £1,312	3
Zone 4	4	£1,312	Norwood Junction Croydon · £1,265	2
Zone 5	1	£1,265	West Croydon Croydon · £1,265	1

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Where the Windrush line runs

Clapham Junction ↔ Highbury & Islington (18 stops)
Crystal Palace ↔ Highbury & Islington (18 stops)
New Cross ELL ↔ Highbury & Islington (13 stops)
West Croydon ↔ Highbury & Islington (21 stops)

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Common questions

Where is the cheapest place to rent on the Windrush line?

Norwood Junction is the cheapest stop on the Windrush line. It sits in Croydon, where a one-bedroom property rents for an average of £1,265 per month (August 2026, ONS) — £495 below the London average of £1,760.

How much does rent vary along the Windrush line?

By £913 a month. A one-bedroom near Highbury & Islington averages £2,178 in Islington, against £1,265 near Norwood Junction in Croydon.

Is it cheaper to live further out on the Windrush line?

Yes, by about £685 a month. Stops in zone 1 sit in boroughs where a one-bedroom averages £1,997, against £1,312 at the line's zone 4 stops.

Which borough on the Windrush line is most affordable on a local salary?

Bromley, where the average one-bedroom takes 31.6% of median gross local full-time pay — against 53.8% in Islington, the toughest on this line. Note that Bromley is not the cheapest borough on the line — local wages differ as much as rents do, so the two rankings part company here. Earnings are gross, ONS ASHE 2024.

How many stations are on the Windrush line?

The Windrush line serves 29 stations across zones 1 to 5 and 9 London boroughs.

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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.