Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Hackney Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Hackney prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Hackney wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
266,758
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£49,884
Hackney
Median resident weekly pay
£959
Full-time employees
Employment rate
79.0%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
4.5%
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.
Hackney has a large resident workforce base. The latest official estimate puts the resident population at 266,758 in 2024.
That scale matters when reading the labour figures, because it suggests a substantial local pool of workers and households rather than a small, thin market. On pay, Hackney sits well above the Great Britain average.