Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
East Devon Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading East Devon prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
East Devon wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
158,239
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£38,756
East Devon
Median resident weekly pay
£745
Full-time employees
Employment rate
86.2%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
2.4%
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.
East Devon’s labour market picture for 2025 suggests a relatively strong local base, but with pay that still sits a little below the Great Britain average. The ONS/Nomis profile, using the Annual Population Survey, puts the resident employment rate at 86.2%.
That is well above the UK figure of 75.5%.