Birch Lane, Rugeley house prices are built from 73 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 1 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £122,500. Across the 15 years from 2006 to 2021 the median moved +50.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.5%.
Median price paid
£122,500
Change in cash, 2006–2021
+50.0%
Change in real terms
+6.5%
HM Land Registry73 salesLatest sale 1 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Birch Lane, Rugeley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Birch Lane, Rugeley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 to 2021. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1 | £120,000 | £218,605 |
| 2010s | 1 | £138,000 | £194,580 |
| 2020s | 1 | £180,000 | £183,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Birch Lane, Rugeley is £180,000 in 2021; the lowest is £120,000 in 2006. Across the full 16-year record the cash median has moved from £120,000 to £180,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £213,636, so the real change over the whole record is +6.5% — about +0.42% 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: +50.0% in cash against +6.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 65 | 10 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 5 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 9 | 2 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 67 | 29 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £192,000 | £202,030 |
| 38 | 21 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £182,210 | £211,106 |
| 15 | 17 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £182,000 | £210,863 |
| 66 | 10 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £183,000 | £212,021 |
| 44 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 10 | 13 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £170,000 | £214,785 |
| 55 | 9 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 43 | 18 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 57 | 25 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 67 | 23 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £187,741 |
| 4 | 28 Apr 2020 | Terraced | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 20 | 8 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £155,000 | £202,737 |
| 51 | 11 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £137,500 | £179,847 |
| 68 | 29 May 2019 | Terraced | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 74 | 1 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £202,737 |
| 13 | 31 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £132,500 | £176,583 |
| 80 | 21 Sep 2018 | Semi-detached | £122,500 | £163,256 |
| 22 | 22 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £145,500 | £193,908 |
| 37 | 28 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £206,569 |
| 1 | 15 Jan 2018 | Semi-detached | £141,000 | £187,911 |
| 16 | 5 Jan 2018 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £179,915 |
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 Birch Lane, Rugeley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Birch Lane | £53,000 (2000) | £265,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 9 Birch Lane | £46,500 (1996) | £245,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 67 Birch Lane | £145,000 (2020) | £192,000 (2024) | +7.3% | +1.9% |
| 66 Birch Lane | £120,000 (2006) | £183,000 (2022) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
| 44 Birch Lane | £118,000 (2005) | £195,000 (2021) | +3.2% | +0.9% |
| 4 Birch Lane | £120,000 (2006) | £155,000 (2020) | +1.8% | -0.4% |
| 20 Birch Lane | £51,950 (2001) | £155,000 (2019) | +6.3% | +3.9% |
| 68 Birch Lane | £36,000 (1999) | £160,000 (2019) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| 74 Birch Lane | £148,500 (2017) | £155,000 (2019) | +2.2% | +0.2% |
| 22 Birch Lane | £36,000 (1997) | £145,500 (2018) | +6.9% | +4.5% |
| 37 Birch Lane | £96,950 (2004) | £155,000 (2018) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 36 Birch Lane | £97,000 (2004) | £140,000 (2016) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Birch Lane, Rugeley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 55 | 75.3% | £124,000 | £27,000 – £265,000 |
| Terraced | 16 | 21.9% | £105,000 | £36,000 – £170,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 2.7% | £90,000 | £90,000 – £149,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Birch Lane, Rugeley
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 73 | 100.0% | £122,500 |
A further 1 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 Birch Lane, Rugeley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cannock Chase, 42.7% of 47,705 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 196 | 0.4% |
| B | 5,728 | 12.0% |
| C | 14,442 | 30.3% |
| D | 19,814 | 41.5% |
| E | 6,116 | 12.8% |
| F | 1,118 | 2.3% |
| G | 291 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cannock Chase at £854 a month as of Jun 2026 — £580 for a one-bedroom home and £949 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £122,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.37% 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 WS15, 133 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 57 violent, 10 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 13 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 100,519 residents the 2021 census counted in Cannock Chase, that is 1.32 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 Birch Lane, Rugeley
The 2021 census counted 100,519 residents in Cannock Chase across 43,456 households. 67.8% of those households own their home and 32.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a WS15 postcode: 16 primary, 1 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hart School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,157 |
| Etching Hill CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 460 |
| The John Bamford Primary School | Primary | Community school | 268 |
| Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 225 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 217 |
| Hob Hill CE/Methodist (VC) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 215 |
| Chancel Primary School | Primary | Community school | 210 |
| Gentleshaw Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 201 |
| Hayes Meadow Primary School | Primary | Community school | 187 |
| Chase View Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 185 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Rugeley Town Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Rugeley Trent Valley Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Hednesford Rail Station | Rail | 7.9 km |
| Lichfield City Rail Station | Rail | 10.7 km |
Section 09
How Birch Lane, Rugeley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Birch Lane, Rugeley sits below that national figure — -22.2%.
Within Rugeley the street ranks 340 of 534 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,000 (-9.9%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £27,000 to £265,000. 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.
Birch Lane, Rugeley sits in Cannock Chase, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cannock Chase at 6.3 times median local earnings of £36,211 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 nearby
- Lower Birches Way£157,750 median
- Uttoxeter Road£204,975 median
- Armitage Road£137,500 median
- Eaton Drive£151,450 median
- Burnthill Lane£150,000 median
- Lichfield Road£176,250 median
- Wolseley Road£133,475 median
- Arch Street£79,000 median
- High Street£196,250 median
- New Road£125,500 median
- Buckmaster Way£239,995 median
- Priory Avenue£190,000 median
- Canterbury Drive£171,000 median
- Chester Road£143,995 median
- Green Lane£108,000 median
- Fernwood Drive£96,225 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 13 Birch Lane4 sales
- 9 Birch Lane4 sales
- 68 Birch Lane4 sales
- 44 Birch Lane3 sales
- 4 Birch Lane3 sales
- 20 Birch Lane3 sales
- 22 Birch Lane3 sales
- 37 Birch Lane3 sales
- 36 Birch Lane3 sales
- 67 Birch Lane2 sales
- 66 Birch Lane2 sales
- 74 Birch Lane2 sales
- 32 Birch Lane2 sales
- 17 Birch Lane2 sales
- 31 Birch Lane2 sales
- 58 Birch Lane2 sales
- 96 Birch Lane2 sales
- 54 Birch Lane2 sales
Back to Rugeley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Birch Lane, Rugeley?
The median price paid in Birch Lane, Rugeley across every sale on the register is £122,500. 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 Birch Lane, Rugeley?
73 sales are on record for Birch Lane, Rugeley, the most recent completing on 1 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Birch Lane, Rugeley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.0% between 2006 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Birch Lane, Rugeley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £180,000, set in 2021. 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 Birch Lane, Rugeley?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 1 Aug 2025. 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, “Birch Lane, Rugeley 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.