Dudley house prices

Dudley house prices are built from 36,586 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £113,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +63.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +16.7%.

HM Land Registry36,586 sales7,640 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Dudley 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 Dudley is £225,000 in 2025; the lowest is £45,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £220,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +120.2% — about +2.58% 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: +63.0% in cash against +16.7% 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 Dudley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dudley 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. 16,428 certificates cover Dudley, and their median floor area is 72 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller 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.

3,976 of the sales on record are leasehold and 32,610 freehold — 10.9% 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 £88,000 and the median freehold sale £117,500 — a gap of +33.5%. 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 — +3.1%. 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 2,396 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 Dudley, 38.7% of 144,533 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% 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 Dudley at £852 a month as of Jun 2026 — £607 for a one-bedroom home and £935 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £113,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.05% 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 DY3, 153 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 74 violent, 5 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 323,486 residents the 2021 census counted in Dudley, that is 0.47 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 323,486 residents in Dudley across 137,069 households. 66.9% of those households own their home and 32.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

11 state and independent schools have a DY3 postcode: 8 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. Dudley sits below that national figure — -28.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,538 per square metre, across 7,640 of the 36,586 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 £1,100,000. 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.

Dudley sits in Dudley, in the West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Dudley at 6.8 times median local earnings of £35,281 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 Dudley

• The Broadway352 sales
• Richborough Drive338 sales
• Park Road275 sales
• Stourbridge Road266 sales
• Himley Road242 sales
• Cradley Road237 sales
• Northway237 sales
• Attingham Drive221 sales
• Purlin Wharf214 sales
• Old Park Road208 sales
• Goodrich Mews207 sales
• The Straits183 sales
• Russells Hall Road162 sales
• Wolverhampton Road162 sales
• Chichester Avenue161 sales
• Priory Road161 sales
• St Marks Road161 sales
• Tipton Road158 sales
• Brook Street157 sales
• Cardoness Place155 sales
• Eve Lane153 sales
• Dudley Road152 sales
• Ivanhoe Street152 sales
• Dudley Wood Road151 sales
• Saltwells Road145 sales
• Sedgley Road145 sales
• St James's Road144 sales
• Sandyfields Road142 sales
• Ashenhurst Road141 sales
• Bath Street141 sales
• Wrens Nest Road141 sales
• Kings Road138 sales
• Brownswall Road133 sales
• Buffery Road133 sales
• New Rowley Road128 sales
• New Street127 sales
• Longfellow Road125 sales
• Oakham Road125 sales
• Charlecote Drive123 sales
• Crabourne Road123 sales
• Parkes Hall Road121 sales
• Dibdale Street116 sales
• Racemeadow Crescent116 sales
• Cascade Way115 sales
• Gospel End Road115 sales
• Baptist End Road114 sales
• Grosvenor Road114 sales
• Weavers Rise113 sales
• Haslingden Crescent111 sales
• Denbigh Close109 sales
• Halesowen Road109 sales
• Hill Street109 sales
• Queens Road109 sales
• High Park Crescent106 sales
• The Minories106 sales
• Breamore Crescent105 sales
• Sledmore Road104 sales
• Cotwall End Road102 sales
• Robert Street101 sales
• Brelades Close99 sales

Postcode districts covering Dudley

• DY3£134,000 median
• DY1£110,000 median
• DY2£95,000 median
• B62£146,500 median
• WV4£130,000 median
• DY6£153,500 median

What is the average house price in Dudley?

The median price paid in Dudley across every sale on the register is £113,000. 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 Dudley?

36,586 sales are on record for Dudley, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Dudley house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +63.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +16.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Dudley house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £225,000, 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 Dudley?

£1,538 per square metre, from the 7,640 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 25 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, “Dudley 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.