Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Hinckley and Bosworth Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Hinckley and Bosworth prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Hinckley and Bosworth wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
116,682
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£37,882
Hinckley and Bosworth
Median resident weekly pay
£729
Full-time employees
Employment rate
83.0%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
2.8%
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.
Hinckley and Bosworth had a resident population of 116,682 in 2024. That gives useful context for a local labour market that is sizeable, but still much smaller than Great Britain as a whole.
The latest ONS and Nomis figures suggest a workforce area with relatively strong attachment to employment and a low level of joblessness.