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.
Apr 2025-Mar 2026 / ASHE 2026
Wyre Forest wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
104,179
ONS 2025
Median resident annual pay
£36,031
Wyre Forest
Median resident weekly pay
£693
Full-time employees
Employment rate
72.6%
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.
Wyre Forest’s latest ONS/Nomis labour-market profile points to a working-age economy with a large resident base and a pay level below the Great Britain average. The resident population was 104,179 in 2025, giving some context for the size of the local labour pool and the breadth of household demand across the area.