Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Worthing Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Worthing prices and rents.
Apr 2025-Mar 2026 / ASHE 2026
Worthing wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
113,844
ONS 2025
Median resident annual pay
£37,653
Worthing
Median resident weekly pay
£724
Full-time employees
Employment rate
88.8%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
3.0%
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.
Worthing has a resident population of 113,844, according to the 2025 ONS-based estimate used in the labour profile. That gives the local earnings and labour-market figures useful context for the scale of the town’s housing demand, but not a direct read-across to property values or rents.