Sowerby Bridge house prices are built from 11,491 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +35.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.8%.
Median price paid
£110,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+35.8%
Change in real terms
-2.8%
Median per m²
£1,220
HM Land Registry11,491 sales2,203 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Sowerby Bridge prices moved
The chart tracks the median Sowerby Bridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £43,600 | £96,813 |
| 2000s | 10 | £94,950 | £172,971 |
| 2010s | 10 | £125,000 | £176,250 |
| 2020s | 7 | £171,000 | £174,717 |
The highest yearly median on record for Sowerby Bridge is £190,000 in 2025; the lowest is £39,500 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £39,950 to £180,559.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,708, so the real change over the whole record is +103.5% — about +2.32% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +35.8% in cash against -2.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Denby Place | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 35 Rooley Heights | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 1 Brockwell Gardens | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £160,100 | £160,100 |
| 8 Stanley Street West | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| THE OLD COACH HOUSE Back Lane | 9 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 3 Egremont Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £152,500 | £152,500 |
| 5 TOWN HALL APARTMENTS Hollins Mill Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| WOOD BANK Brockwell Lane | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| East Mount | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 5 West Parade | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £168,500 | £168,500 |
| 2 Church Terrace | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 11 Clifton Street | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £166,555 | £166,555 |
| APARTMENT 20 MILL WEST West Street | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £114,000 | £114,000 |
| 19 East Parade | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £163,500 | £163,500 |
| 7 Fairbanks | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 14 Back Lane | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| 56 Industrial Road | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 9 Hill Croft | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £278,000 | £278,000 |
| 3 Height Green | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 16 Rochdale Road | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £115,000 | £115,000 |
| 54 Brig Royd | 29 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| APARTMENT 9 LOWER WILLOW HALL MILL Gratrix Lane | 29 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £125,000 |
| APARTMENT 24 RISHWORTH PALACE Rishworth Mill Lane | 28 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| 32 Springfield | 24 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| SWIFT COTTAGE Rishworth New Road | 24 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £210,000 | £210,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Sowerby Bridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Denby Place | £62,000 (2015) | £160,000 (2026) | +9.0% | +5.6% |
| 35 Rooley Heights | £120,000 (2020) | £150,000 (2026) | +3.8% | -0.6% |
| 8 Stanley Street West | £36,950 (1998) | £130,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| THE OLD COACH HOUSE Back Lane | £13,500 (1998) | £175,000 (2026) | +9.6% | +6.8% |
| 5 TOWN HALL APARTMENTS Hollins Mill Lane | £125,000 (2007) | £80,000 (2026) | -2.3% | -5.1% |
| 3 Egremont Street | £91,500 (2005) | £152,500 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| WOOD BANK Brockwell Lane | £225,000 (2005) | £325,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 5 West Parade | £23,950 (1996) | £168,500 (2026) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 2 Church Terrace | £43,900 (2000) | £290,000 (2026) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 11 Clifton Street | £34,000 (1996) | £166,555 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.8% |
| APARTMENT 20 MILL WEST West Street | £176,000 (2006) | £114,000 (2026) | -2.1% | -4.9% |
| 19 East Parade | £26,500 (1997) | £163,500 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sowerby Bridge is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 5,897 | 51.3% | £88,000 | £1,532 – £595,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,156 | 18.8% | £140,000 | £11,000 – £900,000 |
| Detached | 1,777 | 15.5% | £275,000 | £7,000 – £1,200,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,661 | 14.5% | £99,000 | £10,000 – £475,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Sowerby Bridge
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,579 certificates cover Sowerby Bridge, and their median floor area is 74 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -2.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 74 m² | about 797 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 58 m² | about 624 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 100 m² | about 1,076 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 27.4% | 706 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 9.1% | 234 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Sowerby Bridge
1,912 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9,579 freehold — 16.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £100,000 and the median freehold sale £115,000 — a gap of +15.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 1,912 | 16.6% | £100,000 |
| Freehold | 9,579 | 83.4% | £115,000 |
| New build | 1,074 | 9.3% | £154,998 |
| Existing home | 10,417 | 90.7% | £108,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +43.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 644 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Sowerby Bridge
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Calderdale, 34.0% of 111,312 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 251 | 0.2% |
| B | 6,612 | 5.9% |
| C | 30,952 | 27.8% |
| D | 43,917 | 39.5% |
| E | 22,673 | 20.4% |
| F | 4,831 | 4.3% |
| G | 2,076 | 1.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Calderdale at £752 a month as of Jun 2026 — £545 for a one-bedroom home and £812 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.20% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of HX6, 61 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 23 violent, 4 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times quieter.
Against the 206,631 residents the 2021 census counted in Calderdale, that is 0.30 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Sowerby Bridge
The 2021 census counted 206,631 residents in Calderdale across 90,476 households. 65.0% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a HX6 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryburn Valley High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,589 |
| Trinity Academy Grammar | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 968 |
| Bolton Brow Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 227 |
| New Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 182 |
| Triangle CofE VC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 173 |
| Ripponden Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 171 |
| St John's Primary School In Rishworth | Primary | Academy converter | 152 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 150 |
| Trinity Academy St Peter's | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 94 |
| Christ Church Sowerby Bridge CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 70 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sowerby Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Mytholmroyd Rail Station | Rail | 5.0 km |
| Hebden Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Slaithwaite Rail Station | Rail | 8.7 km |
Section 09
How Sowerby Bridge compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sowerby Bridge sits below that national figure — -30.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,220 per square metre, across 2,203 of the 11,491 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £1,532 to £1,200,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Sowerby Bridge sits in Calderdale, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Calderdale at 5.4 times median local earnings of £34,966 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Sowerby Bridge
- Oldham Road391 sales
- Rochdale Road349 sales
- Rishworth Mill Lane338 sales
- Wharf Street241 sales
- Halifax Road206 sales
- Chapel Lane190 sales
- Industrial Road147 sales
- Stepping Stones147 sales
- Rylands Park139 sales
- Stones Drive129 sales
- Silk Mill Chase105 sales
- Spinners Hollow104 sales
- Edward Street102 sales
- Union Street101 sales
- Clifton Street96 sales
- Beck Road92 sales
- Upper Fountain Street92 sales
- Elland Road87 sales
- Hollins Lane84 sales
- Low Laithes84 sales
- St Peters Avenue84 sales
- Albert Road78 sales
- Gratrix Lane75 sales
- Wakefield Road75 sales
- Rosevale View74 sales
- Burnley Road72 sales
- Brig Royd69 sales
- Bentley Mount67 sales
- Kebroyd Avenue66 sales
- Hollin Street64 sales
- West Street64 sales
- Barge Avenue63 sales
- Thorpe Mill Court60 sales
- Rooley Heights59 sales
- Greenside Gardens58 sales
- The Meadows58 sales
- Derwent Court57 sales
- Willow View57 sales
- Fore Lane Avenue56 sales
- Sowerby Croft Lane56 sales
- Bairstow Lane54 sales
- Hollins Mill Lane53 sales
- East Parade52 sales
- Hillside View52 sales
- Higher Brockwell51 sales
- Ryestone Drive51 sales
- Nelson Street50 sales
- Margate Street49 sales
- Soyland Town Road49 sales
- Parkdale Drive48 sales
- Boston Street47 sales
- Peel Street47 sales
- Pleasant Street47 sales
- High Fields46 sales
- Lord Street45 sales
- Exeter Street44 sales
- Lower Mill Bank Road44 sales
- Friendly Avenue43 sales
- Spring Gardens43 sales
- Alexandra Close42 sales
Postcode districts covering Sowerby Bridge
- HX6£110,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Sowerby Bridge?
The median price paid in Sowerby Bridge across every sale on the register is £110,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Sowerby Bridge?
11,491 sales are on record for Sowerby Bridge, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Sowerby Bridge house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +35.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Sowerby Bridge house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £190,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Sowerby Bridge?
£1,220 per square metre, from the 2,203 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Sowerby Bridge house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.