Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
East Midlands Median Salary
Resident earnings data for East Midlands, shown alongside regional house prices and rents for affordability context.
Median resident annual pay
£37,482
Feb 2026-Apr 2026 / ASHE 2025
Median resident weekly pay
£721
Full-time employees
House price to income
6.4x earnings
Average price vs annual pay
Rent to income
29% of monthly earnings
Average rent vs monthly pay
Feb 2026-Apr 2026 / ASHE 2025
East Midlands wages and affordability
Resident earnings help explain how regional prices and rents compare with local pay.
Resident population
5,063,164
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£37,482
East Midlands
Median resident weekly pay
£721
Full-time employees
Employment rate
75.0%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
5.5%
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.
East Midlands had a resident population of 5.06 million in 2024. That gives the labour market a large base of workers and households, which matters when thinking about local demand for homes and the affordability pressures people face.