Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Amber Valley Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Amber Valley prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Amber Valley wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
130,451
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£38,615
Amber Valley
Median resident weekly pay
£743
Full-time employees
Employment rate
76.6%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
3.1%
Economically active
Average monthly rent compared with estimated monthly earnings.
Labour market rates are from the ONS Annual Population Survey profile shown by Nomis. Where the local APS unemployment value is suppressed, the ONS model-based unemployment estimate is used. Earnings are ONS ASHE resident-analysis median full-time employee earnings. Annual pay is annualised from weekly pay for display context.
Incomes Explain Affordability Pressure
Wage and employment data does not predict house prices by itself. It gives demand-side context: how average prices and rents compare with resident earnings, whether employment conditions support demand, and where affordability pressure may limit the buyer or renter pool.
Amber Valley’s labour market picture for 2025 is built from the ONS Annual Population Survey, as shown by Nomis, alongside ONS ASHE earnings data. The resident population was 130,451 in 2024.
That gives useful context for the scale of the local labour market and the pool of households supporting housing demand.