Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
East Hampshire Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading East Hampshire prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
East Hampshire wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
129,975
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£46,873
East Hampshire
Median resident weekly pay
£901
Full-time employees
Employment rate
75.9%
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.
East Hampshire has a relatively strong labour-market profile in the latest ONS and Nomis data. The resident population was 129,975 in 2024, giving useful context for a local market that is sizeable, but still much smaller than Great Britain as a whole.
Resident median weekly pay stood at £901.40 in ASHE 2025.