Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Mole Valley Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Mole Valley prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Mole Valley wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
88,709
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£43,545
Mole Valley
Median resident weekly pay
£837
Full-time employees
Employment rate
90.0%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
2.4%
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. Some measures are shown as No data where ONS/Nomis suppresses local values because sample sizes are too small or disclosive.
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.
Mole Valley has a sizeable resident population of 88,709, based on the 2024 estimate. That population context matters because it helps show the scale of the local labour market behind the area’s housing demand and household finances.