That is the middle of 1,430 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.9 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
1,430 homes sold in three years: 261 detached houses, 607 semi-detached houses, 514 terraced houses and 48 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£270K
median sale · 261 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£228K–£323K
Last 12 months
£280K82 sold
Semi-detached houses£182K
median sale · 607 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£215K
Last 12 months
£190K166 sold
Terraced houses£145K
median sale · 514 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£125K–£175K
Last 12 months
£150K145 sold
Flats and maisonettes£98K
median sale · 48 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£87K–£118K
Last 12 months
£98K14 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 42% of sales
Detached houses18%
Semi-detached houses42%
Terraced houses36%
Flats and maisonettes3%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Ilkeston’s homes sold for between £142K and £224K
One sale in ten was under £118K and one in ten over £280K. 84% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £175,000, sits in the £150–200K band
1,430 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £36,500 in 1995 to £180,000 in the last 12 months (£135,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
407 sales in the last 12 months, against 985 in 2002, the busiest year, and 389 in 2009. Sales fell by 53% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ilkeston costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ilkeston, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£60K
£77K
£165K
£164K
£164K
£230K
£280K
Semi-detached houses
£38K
£47K
£109K
£100K
£115K
£151K
£190K
Terraced houses
£27K
£31K
£80K
£80K
£87K
£115K
£150K
Flats and maisonettes
£19K
£34K
£95K
£72K
£75K
£90K
£98K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
2,057 new homes have been sold in Ilkeston since 1995; the share peaked at 26% in 1998.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.3% sold leasehold in Ilkeston. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Springfield Gardens is Ilkeston’s busiest street, with 22 sales in three years
100 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 31 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Springfield Gardens
DE7
22
£190,000
Mixed
2
Wirksworth Road
DE7
20
£170,000
Mixed
3
Heanor Road
DE7
18
£261,250
Mixed
4
Malthouse Road
DE7
18
£207,500
Mixed
5
Ladywood Road
DE7
17
£215,000
Mixed
6
St Norbert Drive
DE7
17
£180,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Slater Way
DE7
16
£217,500
Mixed
8
Godfrey Drive
DE7
16
£180,000
Mixed
9
Park Road
DE7
16
£166,000
Mixed
10
Kingston Avenue
DE7
16
£157,500
Mostly terraced houses
11
Millfield Road
DE7
15
£160,000
Mixed
12
Nottingham Road
DE7
15
£135,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Cotmanhay Road
DE7
15
£130,000
Mixed
14
Norman Street
DE7
15
£127,000
Mostly terraced houses
15
Church Street
DE7
14
£226,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Oakwell Crescent: £305,000
Ilkeston median£175K
Oakwell Crescent£305K
Elka Road£300K
Laneward Close£265K
Heanor Road£261K
Pudding Plate Close£255K
Cheapest streets
Palmerston Road: £100,000
Ilkeston median£175K
Palmerston Road£100K
Disraeli Crescent£105K
Stratford Street£118K
King Street£120K
Station Road£125K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.1 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Derbyshire
Ilkeston is the 54th most expensive of 59 towns in Derbyshire
Ilkeston is one of Derbyshire’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Ilkeston
What is the average house price in Ilkeston?
The median home in Ilkeston sold for £175,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,430 standard sales (£180,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £270,000, semi-detached houses £182,000, terraced houses £145,000 and flats and maisonettes £97,750.
Are house prices going up in Ilkeston?
The median was £180,000 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£170,000), and £180,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Ilkeston each year?
407 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 611 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Ilkeston?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Oakwell Crescent (DE7, £305,000), Elka Road (DE7, £300,000) and Laneward Close (DE7, £264,500).
Is Ilkeston expensive for Derbyshire?
Ilkeston is the 53rd most expensive of 59 towns of 2,500 or more in Derbyshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.