Crawley house prices

Crawley house prices are built from 61,873 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £188,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +30.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -6.2%.

HM Land Registry61,873 sales9,849 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Crawley 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Crawley is £366,500 in 2026; the lowest is £60,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £366,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £133,228, so the real change over the whole record is +175.1% — about +3.32% 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: +30.9% in cash against -6.2% 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.

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.

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 Crawley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Crawley is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 12,555 certificates cover Crawley, and their median floor area is 80 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. 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.

12,898 of the sales on record are leasehold and 48,975 freehold — 20.8% 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 £145,000 and the median freehold sale £208,000 — a gap of +43.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +12.9%. 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 3,114 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Crawley, 56.8% of 46,789 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Crawley at £1,484 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,064 for a one-bedroom home and £1,637 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £188,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.45% 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 RH10, 180 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 63 violent, 6 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 47 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 118,493 residents the 2021 census counted in Crawley, that is 1.52 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.

The 2021 census counted 118,493 residents in Crawley across 45,502 households. 57.0% of those households own their home and 42.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

22 state and independent schools have a RH10 postcode: 18 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Crawley sits above that national figure — +19.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,574 per square metre, across 9,849 of the 61,873 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 £2,500 to £3,500,000. 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.

Crawley sits in Crawley, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Crawley at 8.5 times median local earnings of £41,977 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.

Streets in Crawley

• Commonwealth Drive1,203 sales
• Ifield Road324 sales
• Bolton Road307 sales
• Woodfield Road283 sales
• Ifield Drive281 sales
• Turners Hill Road280 sales
• Milborne Road274 sales
• Brighton Road260 sales
• Dakin Close255 sales
• Lyon Close251 sales
• Horsham Road243 sales
• Boleyn Close235 sales
• Goddard Close230 sales
• West Green Drive216 sales
• Trafalgar Gardens215 sales
• Heathfield210 sales
• Ashdown Drive208 sales
• Rusper Road202 sales
• Millfield Court200 sales
• Gales Drive199 sales
• Malthouse Road197 sales
• Brookhill Road195 sales
• North Road192 sales
• Stone Court189 sales
• Rother Crescent187 sales
• Fenchurch Road181 sales
• Tinsley Lane181 sales
• Carter Road177 sales
• Capsey Road175 sales
• Jersey Road175 sales
• Hillingdale174 sales
• St Marys Drive174 sales
• St Brelades Road173 sales
• Perryfield Road170 sales
• Hyde Heath Court169 sales
• Southbrook168 sales
• Seaford Road166 sales
• Hollingbourne Crescent164 sales
• Holmcroft162 sales
• Sissinghurst Close162 sales
• Somerley Drive162 sales
• West Street162 sales
• Hazel Way160 sales
• Oakfields159 sales
• Spring Plat159 sales
• Trefoil Crescent159 sales
• Copthorne Bank157 sales
• Cornwell Avenue157 sales
• Cowfold Close157 sales
• Poynings Road157 sales
• Camelot Court154 sales
• Downland Drive153 sales
• Salvington Road153 sales
• St Sampson Road153 sales
• Wheeler Road153 sales
• Maunsell Park151 sales
• The Birches151 sales
• Beverley Mews149 sales
• Southgate Drive149 sales
• Wakehams Green Drive147 sales

Postcode districts covering Crawley

• RH10£206,000 median
• RH11£165,000 median

What is the average house price in Crawley?

The median price paid in Crawley across every sale on the register is £188,500. 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 Crawley?

61,873 sales are on record for Crawley, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Crawley house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +30.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -6.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Crawley house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £366,500, set in 2026. 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 Crawley?

£2,574 per square metre, from the 9,849 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 23 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, “Crawley 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.