Buy-to-let in Thurrock

Thurrock in figures

Gross rental yield

4.7% to 6.2%

By kind of home, across Thurrock

Entry price, across its towns

£218,000 to £360,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+2.7%

UK House Price Index, across Thurrock

Price move, 10 years

+31.7%

UK House Price Index, across Thurrock

Population

181,664

Thurrock, +3.3% growth

• Terraced houses across Thurrock let for £1,350/mo against a median sale of £342,500 there: 4.7% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,380/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Thurrock rose 2.7% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +32% over ten years (Thurrock)
• Transportation and storage: 25.0% of jobs against 4.9% across Great Britain (Thurrock)
• £19,900 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £299,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Thurrock)
• 313 homes added across Thurrock
• Band D £2,255 (Thurrock)
• 1.1% long-term empty across Thurrock
• +19% five-year forecast for East of England as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Thurrock report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Thurrock moved +31.7% over ten years on the UK House Price Index.

Transportation and storage is 25.0% of employee jobs in Thurrock, against 4.9% across Great Britain (9,000 jobs in 2015, 20,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Thurrock moved +23.1% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

47% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Grays's postcode districts are below band C (24,185 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £299,000 pays £19,900 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, East of England) is a regional figure for East of England as a whole, not a forecast for Thurrock, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Thurrock

Each yield is Thurrock's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Thurrock as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Thurrock report

The full report measures Thurrock from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Thurrock report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

The investment map ranks Thurrock against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.