Lichfield Road, Rugeley house prices

Lichfield Road, Rugeley house prices are built from 166 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 28 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £176,250. Across the 11 years from 2012 to 2023 the median moved +393.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +256.9%.

HM Land Registry166 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Nov 2025

The chart tracks the median Lichfield Road, Rugeley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 Lichfield Road, Rugeley is £542,500 in 2023; the lowest is £68,000 in 1999. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £75,250 to £542,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £167,091, so the real change over the whole record is +250.8% — about +4.58% 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: +393.4% in cash against +256.9% 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 Lichfield Road, Rugeley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

13 of the sales on record are leasehold and 153 freehold — 7.8% 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 £109,950 and the median freehold sale £192,000 — a gap of +74.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.7%. 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 11 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 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.

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 £176,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.81% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lichfield Road, Rugeley sits above that national figure — +11.9%.

Within Rugeley the street ranks 173 of 534 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £136,000 (+29.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,129 per square metre, across 18 of the 166 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 £24,600 to £955,000. 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.

Lichfield Road, 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.

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
• 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
• Main Road£111,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 2 Lichfield Road5 sales
• 9 Lichfield Road5 sales
• 80 Lichfield Road4 sales
• 29 Lichfield Road4 sales
• 15 Lichfield Road4 sales
• 1, COUNCIL HOUSE Lichfield Road4 sales
• 30 Lichfield Road3 sales
• 17 Lichfield Road3 sales
• STONELEIGH Lichfield Road3 sales
• MEADOWVIEW HOUSE Lichfield Road3 sales
• BUTTERTON HOUSE Lichfield Road3 sales
• 7 Lichfield Road3 sales
• 33 Lichfield Road3 sales
• 25 Lichfield Road3 sales
• 34 Lichfield Road2 sales
• 3 Lichfield Road2 sales
• 39 Lichfield Road2 sales
• 32 Lichfield Road2 sales
• WOODLAND BARN Lichfield Road2 sales
• 39A Lichfield Road2 sales
• COLLEGE FARM Lichfield Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 12, ANGLESEY HOUSE Lichfield Road2 sales
• 86 Lichfield Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 10, ANGLESEY HOUSE Lichfield Road2 sales

Back to Rugeley house prices.

What is the average house price in Lichfield Road, Rugeley?

The median price paid in Lichfield Road, Rugeley across every sale on the register is £176,250. 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 Lichfield Road, Rugeley?

166 sales are on record for Lichfield Road, Rugeley, the most recent completing on 28 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lichfield Road, Rugeley house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +393.4% between 2012 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +256.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lichfield Road, Rugeley house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £542,500, set in 2023. 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 Lichfield Road, Rugeley?

£2,129 per square metre, from the 18 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 28 Nov 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, “Lichfield Road, 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.