People renting homes in Bristol paid an average of £1,763 a month in the year to August, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
In Bristol rents have risen by 5.7%. In neighbouring North Somerset, the average rent is up 9.6% to 1,097 and in South Gloucestershire, up 6.7% to 1,334.
In Scotland the average home costs £969 a month to rent, and in Wales £752 a month. No figures are available for Northern Ireland.
It means rents have gone up by an average of 8.5% over the course of the year in both England and Wales, and by 7.6% in Scotland.
Rent hikes have been particularly high in London, having risen 9.6% over the course of the last year.
Rents are also up by 9.2% In the North West, the East Midlands and the West Midlands. In the South east they’re up 7.7% year-on-year, in the East of England by 7.6%, in Yorkshire and the Humber by 7.0%, and in the North East by 6.7%.
You can see how much rents have gone up in your local area by using our interactive map for England and Wales
The London borough of Brent has experienced the largest rent price increases in the whole of the UK.
Prices there are now 33.6% higher than they were 12 months ago. The average rental price in Brent is now £2,121 a month.
Melton in the East Midlands has seen rents increase by more than a fifth (21.1%) to £786 a month.
Hinckley and Bosworth, also in the East Midlands, has seen prices rise by 15.1% to £854 a month, while Runnymede in the South East has seen them rise by 15.1% to £1,590 a month.
In Greenwich, London, rents are up 15.0% to £1,818, in Harborough, East Midlands, they’re up by 14.9% to £907 a month, and in Oldham they’re up by 14.7% to £797 a month.
Kensington and Chelsea is the most expensive place to rent in the country, with the average home there going for £3,418 a month.
In Westminster the average rent is £3,099 a month, in Hammersmith and Fulham it’s £2,585 a month, in Islington it’s £2,557 a month, and in Camden it’s £2,482 a month.