Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Slough Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Slough prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Slough wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
167,359
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£40,768
Slough
Median resident weekly pay
£784
Full-time employees
Employment rate
76.2%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
5.9%
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.
Slough’s labour market profile for Jan 2025 to Dec 2025 points to an area with a sizeable resident workforce and earnings that sit above the Great Britain average. The resident population was 167,359 in 2024, which gives useful context for the local jobs picture and for household demand across the city.