Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
North East England Median Salary
Resident earnings data for North East England, shown alongside regional house prices and rents for affordability context.
Median resident annual pay
£35,989
Feb 2026-Apr 2026 / ASHE 2025
Median resident weekly pay
£692
Full-time employees
House price to income
4.5x earnings
Average price vs annual pay
Rent to income
26% of monthly earnings
Average rent vs monthly pay
Feb 2026-Apr 2026 / ASHE 2025
North East England wages and affordability
Resident earnings help explain how regional prices and rents compare with local pay.
Resident population
2,760,678
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£35,989
North East England
Median resident weekly pay
£692
Full-time employees
Employment rate
71.1%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
5.4%
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.
North East England has a resident population of 2.76 million, according to the latest ONS and Nomis labour-market profile. That population context matters because it shows the scale of the regional labour force and the pool of households making decisions about housing, rents, and affordability.