Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
East Suffolk Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading East Suffolk prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
East Suffolk wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
249,664
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£38,142
East Suffolk
Median resident weekly pay
£734
Full-time employees
Employment rate
83.7%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
3.0%
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 Suffolk has a resident population of 249,664, based on the 2024 ONS estimate. That gives useful context for a local labour market that is sizeable, but still much smaller than Great Britain as a whole.