Irwell, Skelmersdale house prices are built from 106 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 6 Nov 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,750. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +54.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.2%.
Median price paid
£70,750
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+54.8%
Change in real terms
+3.2%
Median per m²
£1,065
HM Land Registry106 sales23 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Nov 2024
Section 01
How Irwell, Skelmersdale prices moved
The chart tracks the median Irwell, Skelmersdale house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. 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 | 1 | £34,500 | £76,606 |
| 2000s | 5 | £65,000 | £118,411 |
| 2010s | 2 | £80,000 | £112,800 |
| 2020s | 1 | £120,000 | £122,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Irwell, Skelmersdale is £120,000 in 2022; the lowest is £34,500 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £34,500 to £120,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £73,150, so the real change over the whole record is +90.1% — about +2.60% 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: +54.8% in cash against +3.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 6 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 117 | 11 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £148,000 | £155,731 |
| 103 | 29 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £130,000 | £136,791 |
| 89 | 28 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £124,253 |
| 71 | 14 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 70 | 14 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £125,000 | £135,057 |
| 94 | 21 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| 65 | 30 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 7 | 9 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 78 | 18 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £112,000 | £129,762 |
| 106 | 11 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £82,000 | £95,004 |
| 119 | 20 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £110,000 | £142,424 |
| 78 | 27 May 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 51 | 17 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £120,000 | £156,957 |
| 88 | 9 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £59,500 | £77,825 |
| 14 | 29 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £59,000 | £77,171 |
| 49 | 3 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £115,000 | £153,261 |
| 11 | 23 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £115,000 | £153,261 |
| 123 | 19 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £79,000 | £105,284 |
| 17 | 17 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £115,000 | £153,261 |
| 7 | 6 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £97,500 | £129,939 |
| 26 | 6 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £69,000 | £91,957 |
| 5 | 26 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £91,000 | £123,851 |
| 114 | 28 Apr 2017 | Terraced | £83,000 | £112,963 |
| 33 | 3 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £90,000 | £125,644 |
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 Irwell, Skelmersdale values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 Irwell | £35,000 (1995) | £155,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 117 Irwell | £95,000 (2007) | £148,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 89 Irwell | £66,000 (2003) | £115,000 (2023) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
| 94 Irwell | £95,000 (2010) | £135,000 (2022) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| 7 Irwell | £97,500 (2018) | £130,000 (2022) | +7.5% | +3.8% |
| 78 Irwell | £54,995 (2003) | £112,000 (2022) | +3.8% | +1.2% |
| 106 Irwell | £75,000 (2008) | £82,000 (2022) | +0.6% | -2.0% |
| 119 Irwell | £36,950 (2002) | £110,000 (2020) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 51 Irwell | £58,000 (2003) | £120,000 (2019) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 14 Irwell | £76,000 (2007) | £59,000 (2019) | -2.1% | -4.4% |
| 11 Irwell | £108,000 (2013) | £115,000 (2018) | +1.3% | -0.5% |
| 123 Irwell | £66,950 (2003) | £79,000 (2018) | +1.1% | -1.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Irwell, Skelmersdale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 78 | 73.6% | £75,000 | £12,800 – £148,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 16 | 15.1% | £65,000 | £38,500 – £91,000 |
| Semi-detached | 11 | 10.4% | £80,000 | £21,350 – £155,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.9% | £71,000 | £71,000 – £71,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Irwell, Skelmersdale
15 of the sales on record are leasehold and 91 freehold — 14.2% 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 £69,000 and the median freehold sale £72,000 — a gap of +4.3%. 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 | 15 | 14.2% | £69,000 |
| Freehold | 91 | 85.8% | £72,000 |
A further 7 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 Irwell, Skelmersdale
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across West Lancashire, 44.5% of 53,234 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 249 | 0.5% |
| B | 5,798 | 10.9% |
| C | 17,639 | 33.1% |
| D | 19,962 | 37.5% |
| E | 6,847 | 12.9% |
| F | 1,995 | 3.7% |
| G | 744 | 1.4% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in West Lancashire at £802 a month as of Jun 2026 — £586 for a one-bedroom home and £841 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £70,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.60% 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 WN8, 171 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 75 violent, 6 burglary, 16 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 117,429 residents the 2021 census counted in West Lancashire, that is 1.46 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 Irwell, Skelmersdale
The 2021 census counted 117,429 residents in West Lancashire across 48,534 households. 71.6% of those households own their home and 28.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
25 state and independent schools have a WN8 postcode: 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lathom High School : A Technology College | Secondary | Foundation school | 806 |
| Holland Moor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 412 |
| Woodland Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 335 |
| Cobbs Brow School | Primary | Community school | 308 |
| Moorside Community Primary Academy School | Primary | Academy converter | 256 |
| Trinity Church of England/Methodist School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 256 |
| Delph Side Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 251 |
| St Richard's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 230 |
| St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 229 |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 227 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Upholland Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Parbold Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Rainford Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Appley Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 4.4 km |
Section 09
How Irwell, Skelmersdale compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Irwell, Skelmersdale sits below that national figure — -55.1%.
Within Skelmersdale the street ranks 300 of 395 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £92,000 (-23.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,065 per square metre, across 23 of the 106 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 £12,800 to £155,000. 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.
Irwell, Skelmersdale sits in West Lancashire, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in West Lancashire at 7.1 times median local earnings of £33,926 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
- Ormskirk Road£95,000 median
- Mercury Way£120,000 median
- Kestrel Park£151,000 median
- School Lane£110,000 median
- Yewdale£79,995 median
- De-haviland Way£138,500 median
- Carfield£61,000 median
- Liverpool Road£109,500 median
- Inglewhite£70,000 median
- Crawford Road£116,500 median
- Castlehey£62,000 median
- Fairhurst Drive£120,800 median
- Eskbank£71,000 median
- Felstead£67,000 median
- High Street£80,000 median
- Alderley£50,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 89 Irwell3 sales
- 78 Irwell3 sales
- 17 Irwell3 sales
- 126 Irwell3 sales
- 87 Irwell3 sales
- 135 Irwell3 sales
- 67 Irwell3 sales
- 77 Irwell2 sales
- 117 Irwell2 sales
- 94 Irwell2 sales
- 7 Irwell2 sales
- 106 Irwell2 sales
- 119 Irwell2 sales
- 51 Irwell2 sales
- 14 Irwell2 sales
- 11 Irwell2 sales
- 123 Irwell2 sales
- 5 Irwell2 sales
- 114 Irwell2 sales
- 101 Irwell2 sales
- 37 Irwell2 sales
- 68 Irwell2 sales
- 64 Irwell2 sales
- 35 Irwell2 sales
Back to Skelmersdale house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Irwell, Skelmersdale?
The median price paid in Irwell, Skelmersdale across every sale on the register is £70,750. 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 Irwell, Skelmersdale?
106 sales are on record for Irwell, Skelmersdale, the most recent completing on 6 Nov 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Irwell, Skelmersdale house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +54.8% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Irwell, Skelmersdale house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £120,000, set in 2022. 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 Irwell, Skelmersdale?
£1,065 per square metre, from the 23 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 6 Nov 2024. 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, “Irwell, Skelmersdale 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.