Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Wyre Forest Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Wyre Forest prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Wyre Forest wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
103,913
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£36,031
Wyre Forest
Median resident weekly pay
£693
Full-time employees
Employment rate
70.6%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
4.5%
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.
Wyre Forest had a resident population of 103,913 in 2024. That gives the local labour market a solid population base, but it is still a much smaller market than Great Britain as a whole.
For property affordability, the key point is the level of resident earnings and how that sits alongside work participation rates.