Housing affordability in England and Wales: 2025

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Data on house prices and annual earnings to calculate affordability ratios for national and subnational geographies in England and Wales on an annual basis.

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• Housing affordability in England and Wales: 2025

  Data on house prices and annual earnings to calculate affordability ratios for national and subnational geographies in England and Wales on an annual basis.

Data

• Lower quartile price paid for administrative geographies

  Lower quartile price paid for residential property in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 15.

• House price (newly built dwellings) to workplace-based earnings ratio

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices for newly-built dwellings, by gross annual workplace-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

• House price to workplace-based earnings ratio for former local authorities

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices by gross annual workplace-based earnings for former local authorities.

• Residential property sales for administrative geographies (newly built dwellings)

  Number of new residential property sales in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 7.

• House price to workplace-based earnings ratio for combined authorities

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices by gross annual workplace-based earnings for combined authorities.

• House Price Statistics for Small Areas by national park

  Number of residential property sales and price paid (median and lower quartile) in England and Wales, by property type and national parks. Quarterly rolling annual data.

• House price (existing dwellings) to residence-based earnings ratio

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices for existing dwellings, by gross annual residence-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

• Lower quartile price paid by Middle layer Super Output Area (MSOA)

  Lower quartile price paid for residential property in England and Wales, by property type and middle layer super output area. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 4.

• Lower quartile price paid for administrative geographies (newly built dwellings)

  Lower quartile price paid for new residential property in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 16.

• Residential property sales by Middle layer Super Output Area

  Number of new residential property sales in England and Wales, by property type and Middle layer Super Output Area (MSOA). Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 1.

• House price to workplace-based earnings ratio

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices by gross annual workplace-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

• House price (newly built dwellings) to residence-based earnings ratio

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices for newly-built dwellings, by gross annual residence-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

• Median house prices for administrative geographies (existing dwellings)

  Median price paid for existing residential property in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 11.

• Parliamentary constituency House Price Statistics for Small Areas

  Number of residential property sales and median price paid in England and Wales, by property type and parliamentary constituencies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly part of HPSSA datasets 21, 24 and 26.

• Median house prices for administrative geographies (newly built dwellings)

  Median price paid for new residential property in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 10.

• House price to residence-based earnings ratio

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices by gross annual residence-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

• Median house prices for administrative geographies

  Median price paid for residential property in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 9

• Residential property sales for administrative geographies

  Number of residential property sales in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 6.

• Lower quartile price paid for administrative geographies (existing dwellings)

  Lower quartile price paid for existing residential property in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 17.

• Median house prices by Middle layer Super Output Area

  Median price paid for residential property in England and Wales, by property type and Middle layer Super Output Area (MSOA). Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 2.

• House price (existing dwellings) to workplace-based earnings ratio

  Affordability ratios calculated by dividing house prices for existing dwellings, by gross annual workplace-based earnings. Based on the median and lower quartiles of both house prices and earnings in England and Wales.

• Residential property sales for administrative geographies (existing dwellings)

  Number of existing residential property sales in England and Wales, by property type and administrative geographies. Quarterly rolling annual data. Formerly HPSSA dataset 8.

Methodology

• Housing affordability in England and Wales QMI

  Quality and methodology Information for housing affordability in England and Wales, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used and data uses and users.

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