Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Pendle Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Pendle prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Pendle wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
99,777
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£32,235
Pendle
Median resident weekly pay
£620
Full-time employees
Employment rate
79.7%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
4.7%
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.
Pendle’s labour market picture in the latest ONS and Nomis data is one of relatively strong work participation, but earnings that still sit below the national benchmark. The district had a resident population of 99,777 in 2024, which gives useful context for a local economy of modest scale rather than a large urban labour market.