How did we work this out?

Shelter recommends that housing costs should be no more than 35% of income. So to work this out, we took the cost of the average house in 2602 postcodes across Britain and worked out mortgage repayments based on having a 10% deposit and taking a 30 year term with a 3.41 interest rate. Next we divided this figure by 0.35 to show the monthly salary a homeowner would need to buy in a location and divided that by the average number of hours worked in a month (150) to show their hourly salary.

You can click on the pins to find out more about that postcode.