The most expensive places to buy a house in England and Wales
Ranked on the average price actually paid since 2015, from HM Land Registry. Non-residential areas are excluded — without that filter this list opens with a pharmaceutical company's head office, a broadcaster's mailing address and an airport, none of which anyone lives in.
W1S (London) tops the list on £17,389,740, with NW3 (London) at number 50 on £1,568,182. 2,252 postcode areas met the thresholds for this ranking.
| # | Area | Avg price | Crime /1k | Schools Good+ | Liveability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W1S London | £17,389,740 | 4077.7 | — | 65/100 |
| 2 | SW1A London | £13,212,115 | 2754.2 | — | 55/100 |
| 3 | SW1Y London | £10,428,840 | 3839.1 | — | 66/100 |
| 4 | WC1B London | £9,802,509 | 1225.4 | — | 45/100 |
| 5 | EC3N London | £9,299,868 | 968.0 | — | 42/100 |
| 6 | WC2N London | £8,792,501 | 3694.0 | — | 64/100 |
| 7 | W1D London | £8,251,706 | 4236.6 | — | 56/100 |
| 8 | W1J London | £7,888,131 | 2713.3 | — | 43/100 |
| 9 | W1K London | £7,385,659 | 1530.2 | — | 61/100 |
| 10 | W1F London | £5,916,888 | 4822.7 | — | 65/100 |
| 11 | W1B London | £5,420,418 | 2549.8 | — | 44/100 |
| 12 | WC2R London | £5,379,735 | 2180.0 | — | 55/100 |
| 13 | SW1H London | £5,290,893 | 898.7 | — | 44/100 |
| 14 | WC1A London | £5,152,072 | 926.9 | — | 44/100 |
| 15 | WC2E London | £5,025,993 | 2344.2 | — | 44/100 |
| 16 | SW1X London | £4,912,273 | 328.5 | — | 48/100 |
| 17 | WC2H London | £4,651,074 | 2158.5 | — | 60/100 |
| 18 | M2 Manchester | £4,611,262 | — | — | 45/100 |
| 19 | W1T London | £4,182,961 | 1139.4 | — | 66/100 |
| 20 | W1U London | £4,156,026 | 845.7 | — | 64/100 |
| 21 | WC2B London | £4,051,947 | 1094.5 | — | 66/100 |
| 22 | EC1N London | £4,019,232 | 482.1 | — | 58/100 |
| 23 | W1G London | £3,746,676 | 667.5 | — | 46/100 |
| 24 | SW1W London | £3,693,923 | 333.0 | — | 48/100 |
| 25 | W8 London | £3,099,053 | 159.0 | 75.0% | 66/100 |
| 26 | W1W London | £3,032,724 | 955.1 | — | 53/100 |
| 27 | WC2A London | £3,000,368 | 1235.6 | — | 58/100 |
| 28 | EC1M London | £2,945,568 | 388.3 | — | 44/100 |
| 29 | EC1Y London | £2,894,502 | 410.0 | — | 65/100 |
| 30 | SW1E London | £2,764,333 | 1204.1 | — | 58/100 |
| 31 | EC2A London | £2,747,691 | 1024.3 | — | 58/100 |
| 32 | SW3 London | £2,680,092 | 199.0 | 100.0% | 74/100 |
| 33 | SW7 London | £2,679,434 | 266.7 | — | 49/100 |
| 34 | W11 London | £2,365,640 | 204.3 | 100.0% | 69/100 |
| 35 | WC1N London | £2,362,049 | 273.2 | 100.0% | 69/100 |
| 36 | MK1 Milton Keynes | £2,292,359 | 325.9 | — | 43/100 |
| 37 | EC1R London | £2,194,738 | 276.1 | — | 71/100 |
| 38 | EC1A London | £1,853,361 | 415.1 | — | 61/100 |
| 39 | NW8 London | £1,850,457 | 118.6 | 100.0% | 62/100 |
| 40 | M17 Manchester | £1,847,938 | — | — | 67/100 |
| 41 | W1H London | £1,814,344 | 558.5 | — | 56/100 |
| 42 | SW10 London | £1,761,768 | 151.5 | 100.0% | 72/100 |
| 43 | SW1P London | £1,752,537 | 353.4 | 100.0% | 65/100 |
| 44 | W2 London | £1,693,293 | 226.0 | 100.0% | 74/100 |
| 45 | NW1 London | £1,657,008 | 257.3 | 100.0% | 77/100 |
| 46 | WC1E London | £1,631,686 | 1030.3 | — | 63/100 |
| 47 | B2 Birmingham | £1,587,106 | 5579.8 | — | 61/100 |
| 48 | GU25 Virginia Water | £1,579,597 | 58.3 | — | 60/100 |
| 49 | WC1X London | £1,576,421 | 238.2 | — | 64/100 |
| 50 | NW3 London | £1,568,182 | 130.5 | 100.0% | 76/100 |
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.