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How much house prices rose in ten years, area by area

The change in the average home price between August 2016 and August 2026 in 135 UK areas, from the UK House Price Index.

Computed by Payotte from the UK House Price Index (August 2026) and the purchase tax rates of each nation, read on the official pages on 2026-10-14.

In short

Between 2016 and 2026 (the same month each year), average prices rose the most in Oldham (+85.7%), Rossendale (+80.3%), Manchester (+74.3%) and the least in City of Aberdeen (−29.7%), City of Westminster (−15.4%), Tower Hamlets (−9.2%). 9 areas saw prices fall over the period.

All 135 areas

#	Area	Nation	Average price 2016	Average price 2026	Change
1	Oldham	England	£116,972	£217,214	+85.7%
2	Rossendale	England	£111,779	£201,483	+80.3%
3	Manchester	England	£147,328	£256,760	+74.3%
4	Tameside	England	£122,292	£213,026	+74.2%
5	Bolton	England	£117,904	£203,951	+73%
6	Salford	England	£129,700	£223,323	+72.2%
7	Bury	England	£141,196	£243,107	+72.2%
8	Liverpool	England	£110,097	£188,427	+71.1%
9	Bolsover	England	£107,093	£183,198	+71.1%
10	Sandwell	England	£123,713	£207,065	+67.4%
11	Wigan	England	£117,453	£194,393	+65.5%
12	City of Glasgow	Scotland	£117,594	£194,382	+65.3%
13	Belfast	Northern Ireland	£111,957	£184,768	+65%
14	St Helens	England	£113,120	£186,445	+64.8%
15	Wolverhampton	England	£132,045	£215,801	+63.4%
16	Knowsley	England	£117,743	£191,550	+62.7%
17	Dudley	England	£146,035	£233,819	+60.1%
18	Calderdale	England	£123,747	£197,651	+59.7%
19	Falkirk	Scotland	£109,119	£174,164	+59.6%
20	Rotherham	England	£119,963	£191,052	+59.3%
21	Trafford	England	£249,617	£393,897	+57.8%
22	Clackmannanshire	Scotland	£109,216	£171,154	+56.7%
23	Halton	England	£120,952	£189,435	+56.6%
24	West Lothian	Scotland	£143,946	£225,439	+56.6%
25	North Lanarkshire	Scotland	£103,065	£161,163	+56.4%
26	Hinckley and Bosworth	England	£166,168	£258,960	+55.8%
27	South Lanarkshire	Scotland	£119,667	£186,196	+55.6%
28	Warrington	England	£166,680	£259,224	+55.5%
29	City of Edinburgh	Scotland	£193,834	£301,313	+55.4%
30	East Ayrshire	Scotland	£89,276	£138,206	+54.8%
31	Wirral	England	£143,213	£221,673	+54.8%
32	Walsall	England	£140,284	£216,878	+54.6%
33	Hyndburn	England	£92,515	£142,964	+54.5%
34	Leicester	England	£146,983	£226,881	+54.4%
35	Kirklees	England	£135,295	£208,427	+54.1%
36	South Staffordshire	England	£200,725	£308,695	+53.8%
37	Wakefield	England	£129,692	£199,283	+53.7%
38	Bassetlaw	England	£137,986	£211,488	+53.3%
39	Telford and Wrekin	England	£144,813	£221,853	+53.2%
40	North East Derbyshire	England	£165,892	£253,012	+52.5%
41	Blaby	England	£192,546	£293,412	+52.4%
42	Cheshire East	England	£205,004	£311,897	+52.1%
43	Fife	Scotland	£120,072	£182,463	+52%
44	Doncaster	England	£114,169	£172,770	+51.3%
45	Wrexham	Wales	£143,328	£215,035	+50%
46	Sefton	England	£147,471	£221,105	+49.9%
47	East Dunbartonshire	Scotland	£183,182	£273,891	+49.5%
48	Cheshire West and Chester	England	£180,996	£270,534	+49.5%
49	Leeds	England	£165,088	£246,385	+49.2%
50	Sheffield	England	£147,034	£217,603	+48%
51	Bradford	England	£125,459	£185,297	+47.7%
52	Birmingham	England	£159,525	£234,867	+47.2%
53	Highland	Scotland	£152,863	£224,574	+46.9%
54	Lancaster	England	£138,947	£203,781	+46.7%
55	Charnwood	England	£185,432	£270,351	+45.8%
56	Powys	Wales	£162,963	£237,042	+45.5%
57	City of Kingston upon Hull	England	£93,997	£136,593	+45.3%
58	Nuneaton and Bedworth	England	£156,049	£226,730	+45.3%
59	Coventry	England	£158,380	£227,721	+43.8%
60	North Tyneside	England	£143,413	£205,554	+43.3%
61	Northumberland	England	£148,738	£213,113	+43.3%
62	City of Plymouth	England	£155,807	£223,229	+43.3%
63	North Northamptonshire	England	£176,581	£252,884	+43.2%
64	North Lincolnshire	England	£126,102	£180,345	+43%
65	Flintshire	Wales	£150,356	£214,882	+42.9%
66	Cardiff	Wales	£190,760	£272,443	+42.8%
67	County Durham	England	£98,695	£140,788	+42.6%
68	South Ayrshire	Scotland	£122,014	£173,126	+41.9%
69	City of Peterborough	England	£163,390	£231,634	+41.8%
70	Moray	Scotland	£143,701	£203,371	+41.5%
71	Shropshire	England	£196,380	£277,521	+41.3%
72	Harborough	England	£243,622	£341,706	+40.3%
73	Cumberland	England	£123,363	£172,654	+40%
74	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	£157,392	£219,871	+39.7%
75	Teignbridge	England	£215,990	£298,159	+38%
76	Somerset	England	£205,744	£282,498	+37.3%
77	Solihull	England	£242,964	£332,022	+36.7%
78	South Tyneside	England	£117,651	£160,518	+36.4%
79	Bedford	England	£243,032	£330,462	+36%
80	Cornwall	England	£202,236	£274,570	+35.8%
81	York	England	£230,399	£311,865	+35.4%
82	South Gloucestershire	England	£247,999	£335,572	+35.3%
83	City of Bristol	England	£261,665	£353,596	+35.1%
84	Westmorland and Furness	England	£171,181	£231,161	+35%
85	Newcastle upon Tyne	England	£156,636	£211,255	+34.9%
86	North Somerset	England	£233,910	£314,307	+34.4%
87	Stratford-on-Avon	England	£297,238	£396,711	+33.5%
88	West Northamptonshire	England	£218,878	£289,726	+32.4%
89	North Yorkshire	England	£204,701	£270,080	+31.9%
90	Tendring	England	£198,250	£260,636	+31.5%
91	Exeter	England	£220,836	£289,403	+31%
92	Breckland	England	£203,700	£266,835	+31%
93	Warwick	England	£283,543	£370,924	+30.8%
94	Rutland	England	£235,388	£307,406	+30.6%
95	West Devon	England	£220,766	£286,921	+30%
96	Test Valley	England	£286,583	£372,289	+29.9%
97	Babergh	England	£255,813	£331,207	+29.5%
98	Gateshead	England	£120,728	£156,036	+29.2%
99	Ipswich	England	£175,476	£226,175	+28.9%
100	South Hams	England	£280,844	£360,616	+28.4%
101	Dorset	England	£256,086	£328,589	+28.3%
102	Adur	England	£295,910	£378,990	+28.1%
103	Central Bedfordshire	England	£277,552	£355,263	+28%
104	Wiltshire	England	£256,576	£328,102	+27.9%
105	East Suffolk	England	£217,416	£277,949	+27.8%
106	Mid Suffolk	England	£248,896	£317,979	+27.8%
107	Milton Keynes	England	£258,126	£323,868	+25.5%
108	Eastleigh	England	£252,061	£312,753	+24.1%
109	Crawley	England	£268,851	£332,097	+23.5%
110	North Hertfordshire	England	£343,761	£422,835	+23%
111	New Forest	England	£312,814	£384,564	+22.9%
112	Southampton	England	£192,584	£235,729	+22.4%
113	Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	England	£254,364	£310,176	+21.9%
114	Worthing	England	£245,965	£299,075	+21.6%
115	East Hertfordshire	England	£376,632	£455,973	+21.1%
116	Mid Sussex	England	£362,342	£431,904	+19.2%
117	Brighton and Hove	England	£342,753	£408,240	+19.1%
118	St Albans	England	£552,700	£655,974	+18.7%
119	Horsham	England	£373,449	£441,491	+18.2%
120	Buckinghamshire	England	£409,617	£477,450	+16.6%
121	Greenwich	England	£400,644	£462,868	+15.5%
122	Merton	England	£545,025	£623,791	+14.5%
123	Hackney	England	£543,584	£619,408	+13.9%
124	Lewisham	England	£434,803	£486,416	+11.9%
125	Croydon	England	£374,852	£396,718	+5.8%
126	Camden	England	£762,145	£798,486	+4.8%
127	Wandsworth	England	£699,646	£694,210	−0.8%
128	Hammersmith and Fulham	England	£776,653	£754,825	−2.8%
129	Southwark	England	£587,400	£569,160	−3.1%
130	Aberdeenshire	Scotland	£207,501	£200,965	−3.1%
131	Lambeth	England	£567,232	£540,198	−4.8%
132	Kensington and Chelsea	England	£1,305,767	£1,204,072	−7.8%
133	Tower Hamlets	England	£493,197	£447,950	−9.2%
134	City of Westminster	England	£1,049,018	£887,206	−15.4%
135	City of Aberdeen	Scotland	£190,327	£133,782	−29.7%

How Payotte computed it

Average price of all property types in the same month of each year (UK House Price Index), not adjusted for inflation.

Prices: average prices of the UK House Price Index for August 2026, published by HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land & Property Services and the ONS. Each area links to its page, with the ten-year trend and a calculator. The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with a link to this page.

Questions

Where did house prices rise most in England over ten years?

Oldham (+85.7%); least: City of Westminster (−15.4%).

Where did house prices rise most in Scotland over ten years?

City of Glasgow (+65.3%); least: City of Aberdeen (−29.7%).

Where did house prices rise most in Wales over ten years?

Wrexham (+50%); least: Cardiff (+42.8%).

Where did house prices rise most in Northern Ireland over ten years?

Belfast: +65%.

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Sources

UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land & Property Services Northern Ireland, ONS). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GOV.UK, Stamp Duty Land Tax: residential property rates (HMRC); Higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax (HMRC, last updated 1 April 2025)
Revenue Scotland, LBTT residential property (rates and bands as of 1 April 2021, first-time buyer relief); Scottish Budget 2025-2026: ADS rate 8% for contracts on or after 5 December 2024
Welsh Government, Land Transaction Tax rates and bands (main residential rates from 10 October 2022, higher residential rates from 11 December 2024)

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