Is This Rent Normal?

Put a rent you've been quoted against what people in Espoo actually pay for that size of flat, from Statistics Finland's quarterly figures, area by area.

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Type the postcode from the listing and this uses the figures for that part of Espoo — the coast near Tapiola and Otaniemi, the middle districts, or the areas further out. Leave it empty for the whole city. What you type stays in your browser.

Type a monthly rent and this will show you where it sits.

Half of the rents recorded fall between €829 and €969. That middle half is what “the usual range” means here.

Lower quarter€829Middle€895Upper quarter€969

Worked out from 6 708 tenancies recorded in July–September 2026.

What is counted as rent here

This is the total rent. It includes water and heating charged separately, which many Espoo listings quote on top of the rent — so if a listing says "850 € plus 30 € for water", compare 880 € here, not 850 €. It does not include electricity, a broadband contract, or usage charges for a sauna shift or the laundry.

What this table leaves out

Only privately owned, non-subsidised rental homes are counted. HOAS's student flats in Otaniemi and Espoon Asunnot's roughly 17,000 city-owned homes across Espoo are not in these figures at all, and they are normally cheaper — a rent below the range here is not a warning sign, it is what subsidised housing is meant to look like.

Statistics Finland publishes what people in Espoo are actually paying in rent, every quarter, split by the number of rooms and across three price bands from the coast to the districts further inland. Espoo's own residents' forums repeat one recurring newcomer question — international tech workers landing near Aalto University and Otaniemi ask where to live without knowing how much the answer changes a few kilometres in either direction. This page reads the table each time it loads and puts your own figure on it. It is a comparison, not a verdict: a rent can sit anywhere on this range and still be a good deal, or a bad one.

The published figures

Everything the calculator above works from, for July–September 2026. A dash means Statistics Finland did not publish that group.

Espoo

Rooms	Lower quarter	Middle	Upper quarter	Tenancies
One room	€678	€715	€764	5 600
Two rooms	€829	€895	€969	6 708
Three or more	€1,139	€1,250	€1,387	3 886

Espoo 1

Tapiola, Pohjois-Tapiola, Otaniemi, Westend, Haukilahti, Matinkylä, Suvisaaristo, Leppävaara and Kauniainen.

Rooms	Lower quarter	Middle	Upper quarter	Tenancies
One room	€696	€740	€790	2 814
Two rooms	€870	€930	€1,001	3 143
Three or more	€1,220	€1,305	€1,447	1 708

Espoo 2

Laajalahti, Mankkaa, Kaitaa, Nöykkiö, Saunalahti, Kilo, Laaksolahti and Kauklahti.

Rooms	Lower quarter	Middle	Upper quarter	Tenancies
One room	€659	€699	€727	1 261
Two rooms	€825	€876	€936	1 384
Three or more	€1,125	€1,239	€1,355	826

Espoo 3

Olari, Espoonlahti, Latokaski, Soukka, Espoon keskus, Karakallio, Viherlaakso and the districts toward Nuuksio.

Rooms	Lower quarter	Middle	Upper quarter	Tenancies
One room	€650	€699	€740	1 525
Two rooms	€795	€850	€919	2 181
Three or more	€1,063	€1,170	€1,310	1 352

How to tell a real listing from a fake one

The price will not tell you this, and neither will the figure above. What separates a fraudulent listing from a real one is how the other person behaves — the same signals Finland's national tenants' union and the police warn about every year.

Never transfer money — a deposit, the first month's rent, a "reservation fee" — before you have a signed tenancy agreement.
Ask to see the flat, in person or by video, or have someone you trust see it. A landlord who cannot arrange any viewing at all is the commonest sign.
Be wary of a landlord who says they are abroad and wants payment before you can meet, view or sign anything.
Ask who you are dealing with, and check it. A named landlord or agency you can look up is a different proposition from an account with no history.
Never hand over your original passport or residence permit. A photo or a copy is all any landlord needs.
Apply to HOAS early if you are a student at Aalto or another capital-region institution — the queue for subsidised student housing here is long.

By the square metre

The same tenancies, per square metre, for July–September 2026. The “new tenancies” column is agreements signed recently, which is the closer comparison for a flat being advertised now.

Size	All tenancies	New tenancies
Every size	€18.86	€18.83
One room	€23.83	€23.49
Two rooms	€18.30	€18.38
Three or more	€17.10	€17.22

Rents across the city have moved +0,1 % in a year.

Where to check and who to ask

Statistics Finland: Rents of dwellingsThe quarterly release the figures on this page come from, with the full tables behind it. A new quarter is published about two weeks after that quarter ends.
HOAS — student housing in the capital regionNot counted in the figures above, and normally cheaper. Serves Espoo, Helsinki, Vantaa and Kauniainen; the queue is long, so apply before you need it.
Espoon Asunnot — the city's own rental homesAlso not counted in the figures above. Around 17,000 apartments across Espoo, allocated by housing need.
Vuokralaiset ry — the Finnish Tenants' unionAdvice in English on tenancy agreements, deposits and disputes.
Statistics Finland: terms of useThe rent figures on this page are reused under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Rent figures: Statistics Finland, Rents of dwellings, July–September 2026, licensed CC BY 4.0. Read again each time this page loads. Statistics Finland.