The cheapest places to buy a house in England and Wales
Ranked on the average price actually paid for a home since 2015, as registered with HM Land Registry — not asking prices, not estimates, and not a lender's index. Areas with fewer than 300 sales are left out, because a handful of transactions in a small area produces an average that says more about which houses happened to sell than about the market.
CF43 (Ferndale) tops the list on £77,113, with HU8 (Hull) at number 50 on £131,856. 2,252 postcode areas met the thresholds for this ranking.
| # | Area | Avg price | Crime /1k | Schools Good+ | Liveability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CF43 Ferndale | £77,113 | 90.3 | — | 40/100 |
| 2 | NP24 New Tredegar | £86,907 | 120.0 | — | 56/100 |
| 3 | TS3 Middlesbrough | £90,463 | 223.4 | 94.1% | 81/100 |
| 4 | DL4 Shildon | £92,645 | 177.5 | 100.0% | 72/100 |
| 5 | TS29 Trimdon Station | £95,821 | 117.4 | 100.0% | 65/100 |
| 6 | L4 Liverpool | £97,142 | 153.2 | 91.7% | 82/100 |
| 7 | CF41 Pentre | £100,385 | 84.4 | — | 81/100 |
| 8 | CF40 Tonypandy | £100,406 | 85.6 | — | 76/100 |
| 9 | NP13 Abertillery | £100,985 | 128.4 | — | 58/100 |
| 10 | CF42 Treorchy | £101,338 | 83.4 | — | 72/100 |
| 11 | DL17 Ferryhill | £103,503 | 153.9 | 88.9% | 76/100 |
| 12 | S14 Sheffield | £104,405 | 135.7 | — | 55/100 |
| 13 | DN31 Grimsby | £107,155 | 405.8 | 100.0% | 60/100 |
| 14 | L28 Liverpool | £107,505 | 115.3 | 100.0% | 70/100 |
| 15 | SR8 Peterlee | £107,572 | 161.5 | 100.0% | 83/100 |
| 16 | CF45 Mountain Ash | £108,674 | 90.6 | — | 68/100 |
| 17 | BD5 Bradford | £110,434 | 165.1 | 88.2% | 77/100 |
| 18 | BB11 Burnley | £112,611 | 248.0 | 85.7% | 76/100 |
| 19 | CA24 Moor Row | £113,198 | 40.5 | — | 53/100 |
| 20 | DH9 Stanley | £113,284 | 131.5 | 90.5% | 79/100 |
| 21 | DN32 Grimsby | £113,896 | 209.8 | 100.0% | 81/100 |
| 22 | TS24 Hartlepool | £114,779 | 267.8 | 90.9% | 85/100 |
| 23 | L6 Liverpool | £115,105 | 163.9 | 85.7% | 77/100 |
| 24 | L5 Liverpool | £116,084 | 228.6 | 62.5% | 72/100 |
| 25 | BD7 Bradford | £118,040 | 146.5 | 90.0% | 76/100 |
| 26 | NE17 Newcastle upon Tyne | £120,612 | 99.7 | — | 48/100 |
| 27 | LL41 Blaenau Ffestiniog | £121,858 | 88.7 | — | 67/100 |
| 28 | HU3 Hull | £122,271 | 229.4 | 83.3% | 83/100 |
| 29 | NE62 Choppington | £122,791 | 90.5 | 100.0% | 70/100 |
| 30 | TS25 Hartlepool | £123,033 | 139.7 | 93.8% | 82/100 |
| 31 | L20 Bootle | £123,935 | 155.8 | 90.9% | 79/100 |
| 32 | CF34 Maesteg | £124,217 | 93.4 | — | 81/100 |
| 33 | S5 Sheffield | £124,680 | 137.3 | 93.8% | 81/100 |
| 34 | FY1 Blackpool | £125,986 | 401.5 | 100.0% | 68/100 |
| 35 | DN34 Grimsby | £126,111 | 98.5 | 83.3% | 73/100 |
| 36 | BB9 Nelson | £126,942 | 109.8 | 100.0% | 80/100 |
| 37 | SR4 Sunderland | £127,606 | 96.0 | 100.0% | 76/100 |
| 38 | DL14 Bishop Auckland | £127,637 | 166.2 | 81.0% | 80/100 |
| 39 | DN12 Doncaster | £127,758 | 132.6 | 91.7% | 80/100 |
| 40 | DL15 Crook | £128,304 | 119.3 | 100.0% | 74/100 |
| 41 | CH44 Wallasey | £128,334 | 110.2 | 87.5% | 74/100 |
| 42 | HU19 Withernsea | £128,951 | 106.4 | — | 62/100 |
| 43 | NP22 Tredegar | £129,449 | 166.0 | — | 83/100 |
| 44 | L13 Liverpool | £130,178 | 121.1 | 72.7% | 77/100 |
| 45 | BB10 Burnley | £130,513 | 99.8 | 82.4% | 77/100 |
| 46 | L11 Liverpool | £130,618 | 91.3 | 90.9% | 80/100 |
| 47 | NE64 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea | £130,629 | 115.6 | — | 48/100 |
| 48 | BD8 Bradford | £130,709 | 142.7 | 83.3% | 81/100 |
| 49 | M38 Manchester | £131,033 | — | 66.7% | 66/100 |
| 50 | HU8 Hull | £131,856 | 92.6 | 100.0% | 80/100 |
How this ranking is built
Every figure is calculated from official data by postcode area — the outward code, the part of a postcode before the space. Sold prices are what buyers actually paid, as registered with HM Land Registry. Crime is street-level police data matched to postcode areas through the neighbourhoods inside them. School ratings are current Ofsted grades across 26,824 schools. Population, tenure and household figures come from the 2021 Census.
Areas with too few sales or residents to rank meaningfully are excluded, as are non-residential ones — business parks, airports and single-company campuses have sold prices but nobody lives in them. Where a figure is unknown the area is left out of that ranking rather than counted as zero.