Chesterfield house prices

Chesterfield house prices are built from 87,528 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £119,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +42.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.3%.

HM Land Registry87,528 sales9,089 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield is £210,000 in 2025; the lowest is £42,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £42,500 to £197,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,370, so the real change over the whole record is +108.8% — about +2.40% 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: +42.8% in cash against +2.3% 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 Chesterfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Chesterfield 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. 28,759 certificates cover Chesterfield, and their median floor area is 77 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. 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.

4,312 of the sales on record are leasehold and 83,216 freehold — 4.9% 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 £106,000 and the median freehold sale £120,000 — a gap of +13.2%. 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 — +39.1%. 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 5,522 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 Bolsover, 48.1% of 43,413 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% 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 Bolsover at £712 a month as of Jun 2026 — £501 for a one-bedroom home and £752 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £119,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.12% 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 S43, 71 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 34 violent, 0 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 11 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.4 times quieter.

Against the 80,272 residents the 2021 census counted in Bolsover, that is 0.88 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 80,272 residents in Bolsover across 35,262 households. 66.3% of those households own their home and 33.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a S43 postcode: 16 primary, 3 secondary. 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. Chesterfield sits below that national figure — -23.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,809 per square metre, across 9,089 of the 87,528 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 £355 to £2,185,000. 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.

Chesterfield sits in Bolsover, in the East Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bolsover at 5.0 times median local earnings of £36,167 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 Chesterfield

• Chesterfield Road810 sales
• Chatsworth Road720 sales
• Station Road644 sales
• Derby Road480 sales
• High Street464 sales
• Mansfield Road447 sales
• Manor Road394 sales
• Wain Avenue393 sales
• Williamthorpe Road360 sales
• Newbold Road335 sales
• Ashgate Road299 sales
• Old Road289 sales
• Handley Road281 sales
• Queen Street275 sales
• Old Hall Road260 sales
• Spital Lane258 sales
• New Street254 sales
• Sheffield Road252 sales
• John Street248 sales
• South Street North247 sales
• Creswell Road245 sales
• Nethermoor Road245 sales
• Archdale Close244 sales
• East Street243 sales
• Walton Road215 sales
• Clowne Road214 sales
• Holme Park Avenue212 sales
• Foljambe Road207 sales
• New Road206 sales
• Ashover Road205 sales
• Shuttlewood Road205 sales
• Camlough Walk204 sales
• Prospect Road203 sales
• Langer Lane202 sales
• North Wingfield Road202 sales
• King Street201 sales
• Church Lane193 sales
• St Johns Road193 sales
• Meadow View186 sales
• Elvaston Road182 sales
• Church Street North181 sales
• The Hill181 sales
• Wellington Street181 sales
• Barlborough Road178 sales
• Hasland Road178 sales
• Ashton Road176 sales
• Top Road176 sales
• Holland Road175 sales
• Longedge Lane175 sales
• Copenhagen Road173 sales
• Langwith Road171 sales
• Masefield Avenue171 sales
• Brushfield Road169 sales
• Hazel Drive168 sales
• Tapton View Road168 sales
• Welbeck Road167 sales
• Nottingham Drive166 sales
• School Board Lane164 sales
• Storforth Lane162 sales
• Bloomery Way161 sales

Postcode districts covering Chesterfield

• S43£107,000 median
• S41£118,000 median
• S40£123,250 median
• S42£145,000 median
• S44£109,100 median
• S45£118,995 median

What is the average house price in Chesterfield?

The median price paid in Chesterfield across every sale on the register is £119,950. 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 Chesterfield?

87,528 sales are on record for Chesterfield, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Chesterfield house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +42.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Chesterfield house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £210,000, 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 Chesterfield?

£1,809 per square metre, from the 9,089 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 26 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, “Chesterfield 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.