Abuja today
Abuja asks for a year’s rent up front, often two. A two-bedroom asking ₦5,250,000 needs ₦6,562,500 in hand before you get keys — rent, agency, legal and caution, all at once.
The naira sets the pump price, the pump price moves the market, and rent takes what is left before either. Every figure sourced and dated.
Asking rent by district
Cheapest published median in each district · OpenStreetMap via Nominatim
Two-bedroom, Garki — advertised at ₦5,250,000 a year, but ₦6,562,500 in hand before you get keys once agency, legal and caution are added.
15 districts shown, 8 not sourced. These are asking prices from 726 listings — 35 rows published, 51 district-and-bedroom pairs withheld as too thin to publish, and nothing interpolated to fill a gap. Nigeria has no transaction-derived rent index, so nobody can publish what tenants actually paid. Kuje and Gwagwalada sit outside this frame and also produced no usable listings. What this data does not cover.
The same figures as a table
| District | From, a year |
|---|---|
| Lugbe | ₦1,800,000 |
| Lokogoma | ₦1,950,000 |
| Jahi | ₦2,400,000 |
| Life Camp | ₦2,500,000 |
| Wuye | ₦2,500,000 |
| Garki | ₦2,500,000 |
| Kubwa | ₦3,000,000 |
| Gwarinpa | ₦3,000,000 |
| Asokoro | ₦5,500,000 |
| Katampe | ₦8,000,000 |
| Mabushi | ₦9,000,000 |
| Guzape | ₦12,000,000 |
| Jabi | ₦13,500,000 |
| Maitama | ₦20,000,000 |
| Wuse II | ₦20,000,000 |
| Bwari | not sourced |
| Dutse | not sourced |
| Utako | not sourced |
| Central Area | not sourced |
| Karu | not sourced |
| Nyanya | not sourced |
| Kuje | not sourced |
| Gwagwalada | not sourced |
Coordinates from OpenStreetMap. Points mark district locations, not boundaries.
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What is left
On ₦6,000,000 a year, rent and food and power come to more than the pay
A worked example on a single stated salary — not a claim about every household. Change the salary, the district or the years demanded on /rent. Every line below is computed by another page on this site.
| Take-home pay — after tax and pension | ₦402,200 |
|---|---|
| Rent — ₦5,250,000 a year, spread over 12 months | −₦437,500 |
| Food basket — one month | −₦129,432 |
| Electricity — 200 kWh with VAT | −₦13,620 |
| Left for everything else | −₦178,353 |
The total is negative, and it is not an error. Three costs come to ₦178,353 more than the take-home pay they have to come out of — before transport, healthcare, school fees or anything unexpected. The arithmetic is saying this salary does not reach this flat.
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