Droitwich house prices are built from 17,847 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 £175,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +42.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.2%.
Median price paid
£175,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+42.7%
Change in real terms
+2.2%
Median per m²
£2,059
HM Land Registry17,847 sales3,086 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Droitwich prices moved
The chart tracks the median Droitwich 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 | £68,500 | £152,102 |
| 2000s | 10 | £169,998 | £309,685 |
| 2010s | 10 | £205,200 | £289,332 |
| 2020s | 7 | £300,500 | £307,033 |
The highest yearly median on record for Droitwich is £327,500 in 2026; the lowest is £60,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £327,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £133,228, so the real change over the whole record is +145.8% — about +2.94% 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: +42.7% in cash against +2.2% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Pilgrim Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £312,500 | £312,500 |
| 13 Shirley Road | 16 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 89 Stalls Farm Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 22 Pear Tree Way | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 54B Winslow Avenue | 10 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 56 Oakleigh Road | 9 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £218,000 | £218,000 |
| 8 Amphlett Court | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £467,500 | £467,500 |
| 9 Bromsgrove Road | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 1 Westmead Close | 27 May 2026 | Detached | £267,500 | £267,500 |
| FLAT 9 ROWAN COURT Worcester Road | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £152,000 |
| 27 Hawthorn Rise | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 44 Dugard Way | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 8 Nightingale Place | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £373,000 | £373,000 |
| 10 Showell Green | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 14 St Augustines Close | 19 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £401,000 | £401,000 |
| 79 Centenary Way | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £387,500 | £387,500 |
| 18 Flax Close | 19 May 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 33 Ledwych Road | 19 May 2026 | Terraced | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| FLAT 23 ROWAN COURT Worcester Road | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £125,000 |
| 7 Archers Close | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £93,000 | £93,000 |
| 1 School View | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 14 William Shakespeare Place | 14 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| OCTOBER HOUSE Plough Road | 13 May 2026 | Detached | £605,000 | £605,000 |
| 48 College Green | 13 May 2026 | Detached | £570,000 | £570,000 |
| 24 Longheadland | 12 May 2026 | Detached | £660,000 | £660,000 |
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 Droitwich values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Pilgrim Road | £147,500 (2003) | £312,500 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 13 Shirley Road | £178,000 (2005) | £325,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.0% |
| 54B Winslow Avenue | £129,950 (2006) | £160,000 (2026) | +1.0% | -1.8% |
| 22 Pear Tree Way | £238,950 (2001) | £510,000 (2026) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
| 56 Oakleigh Road | £120,000 (2013) | £218,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 8 Amphlett Court | £300,000 (2004) | £467,500 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 9 Bromsgrove Road | £170,000 (2006) | £210,000 (2026) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| FLAT 9 ROWAN COURT Worcester Road | £169,999 (2015) | £152,000 (2026) | -1.0% | -4.1% |
| 8 Nightingale Place | £207,500 (2003) | £373,000 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.2% |
| 27 Hawthorn Rise | £315,000 (2004) | £510,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.6% |
| 44 Dugard Way | £121,000 (1995) | £435,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.6% |
| 10 Showell Green | £273,000 (2020) | £360,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Droitwich 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 7,776 | 43.6% | £258,000 | £10,000 – £3,750,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4,737 | 26.5% | £163,000 | £1,000 – £940,000 |
| Terraced | 3,221 | 18.0% | £125,000 | £4,000 – £630,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2,113 | 11.8% | £118,000 | £14,000 – £795,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Droitwich
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,988 certificates cover Droitwich, and their median floor area is 78 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger 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 | 78 m² | about 840 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 58 m² | about 624 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 103 m² | about 1,109 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 26.7% | 1,066 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 10.5% | 419 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Droitwich
2,985 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14,862 freehold — 16.7% 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 £113,000 and the median freehold sale £196,000 — a gap of +73.5%. 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 | 2,985 | 16.7% | £113,000 |
| Freehold | 14,862 | 83.3% | £196,000 |
| New build | 2,548 | 14.3% | £201,473 |
| Existing home | 15,299 | 85.7% | £170,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +18.5%. 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 963 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 Droitwich
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wychavon, 46.5% of 63,106 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 827 | 1.3% |
| B | 10,745 | 17.0% |
| C | 17,752 | 28.1% |
| D | 20,790 | 32.9% |
| E | 9,143 | 14.5% |
| F | 2,946 | 4.7% |
| G | 903 | 1.4% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wychavon at £944 a month as of Jun 2026 — £663 for a one-bedroom home and £1,063 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £175,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.47% 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 WR9, 130 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 57 violent, 8 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 132,492 residents the 2021 census counted in Wychavon, that is 0.98 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 Droitwich
The 2021 census counted 132,492 residents in Wychavon across 57,356 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a WR9 postcode: 9 primary, 2 middle deemed primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,290 |
| Westacre Middle School | Middle deemed primary | Community school | 444 |
| St Peter's Droitwich CofE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 436 |
| Witton Middle School | Middle deemed primary | Academy sponsor led | 390 |
| Chawson First School | Primary | Community school | 347 |
| Westlands First School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 197 |
| Cutnall Green CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 147 |
| Wychbold First and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 138 |
| Ombersley Endowed First School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 131 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Droitwich Spa Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Worcester Shrub Hill Rail Station | Rail | 8.7 km |
| Worcester Foregate Street Rail Station | Rail | 9.0 km |
| Bromsgrove Rail Station | Rail | 9.5 km |
Section 09
How Droitwich compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Droitwich sits above that national figure — +11.1%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,059 per square metre, across 3,086 of the 17,847 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 £1,000 to £3,750,000. 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.
Droitwich sits in Wychavon, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wychavon at 8.9 times median local earnings of £36,768 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 Droitwich
- Worcester Road421 sales
- Friar Street267 sales
- St Andrews Road229 sales
- Corbett Avenue224 sales
- Hanbury Road216 sales
- Henley Drive214 sales
- St Georges Crescent205 sales
- Swan Drive203 sales
- College Green191 sales
- Showell Grove180 sales
- Meadow Road177 sales
- Coppice Way167 sales
- Showell Green162 sales
- Westbury Avenue160 sales
- Honeymans Gardens149 sales
- Plough Road144 sales
- Tagwell Road144 sales
- Trent Close143 sales
- Calder Close139 sales
- Clayhall Road135 sales
- Mulberry Tree Hill131 sales
- Falcon Close127 sales
- Nightingale Close123 sales
- Kingfisher Court120 sales
- Ledwych Road119 sales
- Tower Hill115 sales
- Sandles Road114 sales
- Pear Tree Way111 sales
- Witton Avenue111 sales
- Alexander Avenue110 sales
- Maytree Hill104 sales
- Bowden Green101 sales
- Cockshute Hill100 sales
- Jackdaw Lane100 sales
- Oak Tree Drive100 sales
- Main Road93 sales
- Blackfriars Avenue92 sales
- Centenary Way88 sales
- Hawthorn Rise87 sales
- Burrish Street86 sales
- Isaacs Way84 sales
- Hammond Close83 sales
- Brantwood Road80 sales
- Impney Way80 sales
- Albert Street78 sales
- Lyttelton Road77 sales
- Oakland Avenue77 sales
- Rebekah Gardens76 sales
- Winslow Avenue76 sales
- Amphlett Way75 sales
- Kestrel Crescent74 sales
- Park Way74 sales
- Newland Road72 sales
- Charlotte Bronte Drive71 sales
- William Shakespeare Place70 sales
- Miller Street68 sales
- Gresley Way67 sales
- Princes Avenue66 sales
- Yew Tree Hill66 sales
- Chequers Lane65 sales
Postcode districts covering Droitwich
- WR9£175,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Droitwich?
The median price paid in Droitwich across every sale on the register is £175,000. 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 Droitwich?
17,847 sales are on record for Droitwich, 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 Droitwich house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +42.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Droitwich house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £327,500, 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 Droitwich?
£2,059 per square metre, from the 3,086 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, “Droitwich 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.