The average Worcester home sold for £251,221 in July 2026, £42,258 below the England average. Prices by type, by neighbourhood and across Worcestershire.
Update, 24 September 2026: the UK House Price Index has since published July 2026, and it has also revised May. The city average for May now reads £251,153, up 1.9%, rather than the £251,703 and 2.1% published when this page was written. For July 2026 the average is £251,221, up 0.1% on the year. The latest release is covered in full in Worcester house prices July 2026: up £298 in a year. The headline figures and the questions at the foot of this page have been updated to July. The detailed tables in between are the May 2026 release as it stood, and are labelled May throughout.
The average home in Worcester sold for £251,221 in July 2026, the most recent month in the official UK House Price Index. That is up 0.1% on July 2025, and it is £42,258 below the England average of £293,479. The detailed tables further down this page are built on the May 2026 release and are labelled as such.
That gap is the thing worth knowing about the Worcester market. This is a cathedral city with a university, a county cricket ground and a fast-growing commuter draw, and it is still cheaper than the country as a whole and cheaper than the county it sits in. Every figure below comes from HM Land Registry data, which records what homes actually sold for rather than what they were advertised at.
The headline figures
| Area | Average price | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Worcester city | £251,703 | +2.1% |
| Worcestershire | £285,239 | +2.1% |
| West Midlands region | £233,957 | +2.2% |
| England | £292,095 | +2.3% |
Source: UK House Price Index, May 2026, built from HM Land Registry completed sales.
Five years ago, in May 2021, the Worcester average was £210,398. The city has therefore put on about £41,000, or 19.6%, over five years. Most of that came in the 2021 and 2022 rush; the last two years have been steady low single-digit growth rather than anything dramatic.
Where Worcester sits in Worcestershire
Worcester is the county town, but it is not the expensive part of the county. Three of the six Worcestershire districts are dearer, and the gap to the top is large.
| District | Average price | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Malvern Hills | £337,558 | +3.9% |
| Bromsgrove | £330,194 | −1.0% |
| Wychavon | £321,348 | +3.5% |
| Worcester city | £251,703 | +2.1% |
| Redditch | £243,585 | 0.0% |
| Wyre Forest | £234,413 | +3.5% |
The reason is boundaries rather than desirability. Worcester City Council’s area is drawn tightly around the built-up city, so the average is made up almost entirely of terraces, semis and flats. Malvern Hills and Wychavon are mostly countryside and villages, where large detached houses dominate the sales and pull the average up. A detached house in Worcester and a detached house in Malvern Hills are much closer in price than the district averages suggest.
What you pay by property type
| Property type | Worcester | England |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £422,631 | £473,921 |
| Semi-detached | £273,826 | £290,791 |
| Terraced | £230,433 | £244,279 |
| Flat or maisonette | £136,986 | £217,421 |
Worcester is close to the England average on houses and a long way below it on flats. A flat here costs £136,986 against £217,421 nationally, a difference of about 37%. Flats are also the only category to have fallen over the year, down 1.0%, while detached homes rose 1.9%.
That flat figure is the single biggest reason the city-wide average looks low. It is also the practical answer for anyone asking whether Worcester is affordable: for a first flat, yes, markedly. For a family house, it is roughly national money.
First-time buyers and movers
A first-time buyer in Worcester paid an average of £223,794 in May 2026. Someone selling one home to buy another paid £290,784. The £67,000 between those two numbers is the size of the step from a first flat or terrace to a family house in this city.
Prices by area of Worcester
The city-wide average hides a spread of nearly £100,000 between neighbourhoods. These are median sold prices for the year ending September 2025, from the Office for National Statistics small-area dataset. They are medians rather than means, and they cover a period ending a little earlier than the figures above, so treat them as a ranking of areas rather than as today’s prices.
A few things stand out. Northwick, in the north of the city off the Ombersley Road, is the dearest neighbourhood at £302,000, and its detached median jumped from £390,000 to £499,950 in a year. Lower Wick and Bromwich Road, on the west bank towards Powick, is a close second at £300,000. At the other end, Worcester Town South and Warndon West sit near £210,000.
The two “Worcester Town” areas are the city centre, and their low medians are a flat effect rather than a poor-area effect: Worcester Town North recorded a detached median of £967,500 and a semi-detached median of £327,000 in the same period, but most of its sales are flats and small terraces. If you are comparing places to live, compare the by-type numbers, not the all-types median.
How many homes actually sell here
Worcester is a small market in volume terms. HM Land Registry recorded 84 sales in March 2026, 69 in February and 75 in January, against 109 in December 2025. Under a hundred completions a month means a single unusual sale can move a neighbourhood median, which is another reason to treat area figures as a guide rather than a valuation.
What it means for you
- Buying your first home. Worcester flats at £136,986 are among the cheapest routes into a city of this size anywhere in England. The terraced average of £230,433 is the next step.
- Buying a family house. You are paying close to national prices. The £422,631 detached average is only 11% below England’s, so the city’s “cheap” reputation does not extend to larger homes.
- Selling. Growth of 2.1% a year means asking prices set from a 2022 peak will sit. Check what has actually completed on your street on the Land Registry price paid search before you set a figure.
- Weighing running costs. The yearly council tax bill is part of the cost of a home, and so is the commute. If you are moving here to work in London, read our guide to Worcester trains to London first, because the season ticket can exceed £11,000 a year on the direct route.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Worcester?
£251,221 in July 2026, according to the UK House Price Index, which is built from completed HM Land Registry sales across the Worcester city district.
Are Worcester house prices going up or down?
Barely. Prices rose 0.1% in the year to July 2026, a gain of £298. Flats fell 2.8% over the year and detached homes fell 0.1%; semi-detached homes rose 1.1% and terraces 0.8%.
Is Worcester cheaper than the rest of Worcestershire?
Yes. The Worcester city average of £251,221 is £36,047 below the Worcestershire average of £287,268, and £99,551 below Malvern Hills, the county’s dearest district. Only Wyre Forest and Redditch are cheaper.
Which is the most expensive part of Worcester?
On median sold prices for the year to September 2025, Northwick at £302,000, just ahead of Lower Wick and Bromwich Road at £300,000. The cheapest was Worcester Town South at £208,750.
How much is a flat in Worcester?
£135,999 on average in July 2026, against £217,362 for England. Flats are the weakest part of the Worcester market, down 2.8% over the year.
Where can I check what a specific house sold for?
Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Search any street or address free on the HM Land Registry price paid service.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Worcester (ONS and HM Land Registry) for district averages, property-type splits, buyer-type figures and sales volumes.
- HM Land Registry UK HPI open data for the underlying monthly figures used above.
- ONS median house prices by middle layer super output area for the neighbourhood medians, year ending September 2025.
- HM Land Registry price paid search to check any individual address.
UK House Price Index figures for recent months are provisional and revised as more sales complete. Check the linked sources before making a decision.
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