Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Basingstoke and Deane Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Basingstoke and Deane prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Basingstoke and Deane wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
193,110
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£42,801
Basingstoke and Deane
Median resident weekly pay
£823
Full-time employees
Employment rate
80.5%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
3.5%
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.
Basingstoke and Deane has a resident population of 193,110, based on the 2024 estimate. That gives useful local context for reading the labour-market figures, because a larger resident base can support a broad range of occupations and earning levels.
The headline numbers come from ONS labour-market data shown by Nomis, with earnings taken from ASHE.