Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Ealing Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Ealing prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Ealing wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
385,985
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£42,021
Ealing
Median resident weekly pay
£808
Full-time employees
Employment rate
76.5%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
8.8%
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.
Ealing’s resident labour market looks relatively strong in the latest ONS and Nomis data for Jan 2025 to Dec 2025, with ASHE 2025 earnings used for pay. The city had an estimated resident population of 385,985 in 2024, so these figures sit in the context of a large and diverse local workforce.