Photo: Mr Ignavy · CC BY-SA 2.0Measured against local pay, Brixham costs more to live in than 98% of UK towns
A typical home in Brixham sold for £290,000. That is the middle of 799 standard sales from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. Brixham grades D− for cost of living: prices, rent and council tax against what households in the area earn.
What Brixham’s housing numbers say
Prices have kept pace with the typical town
Over ten years the median sale in Brixham went up 45%; in the typical UK town it went up 42%. Since 1995–96 prices have gone up 5.5 times, from £50,000. Price trend ↓
A wide spread inside one town
The median sale in Churston with Galmpton ward was £460,000; in Furzeham with Summercombe it was £275,500. Where in Brixham ↓
Written from the data on this page: HM Land Registry sales since 1995, ONS private rents and household income, and council tax from MHCLG and the Welsh Government.
Brixham grades D− for cost of living
Each cost against what households in the Torbay council area earn (£43,204 a year, mean), ranked against UK towns.
The three costs sit close together against UK towns, so no single one drives the grade.
Down 7% in a year, up 45% in ten
The median of every standard sale in Brixham each year (September to August), against the typical UK town of 2,500+ (the middle of all their medians). Ten years: Brixham +45%, typical town +42%. Five years: +4% against +11%.
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| Year to August | Brixham | Typical town | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | £275,500 | £277,000 | 234 |
| 2024–25 | £295,000 | £280,000 | 283 |
| 2023–24 | £290,000 | £275,000 | 282 |
| 2022–23 | £307,500 | £280,000 | 252 |
| 2021–22 | £295,000 | £265,000 | 386 |
| 2020–21 | £265,000 | £250,000 | 521 |
| 2019–20 | £225,500 | £230,000 | 310 |
| 2018–19 | £230,000 | £225,000 | 430 |
| 2017–18 | £219,950 | £219,950 | 458 |
| 2016–17 | £211,275 | £210,000 | 486 |
| 2015–16 | £190,000 | £195,000 | 459 |
| 2014–15 | £180,000 | £183,500 | 470 |
| 2013–14 | £177,500 | £173,500 | 451 |
| 2012–13 | £176,000 | £165,000 | 329 |
| 2011–12 | £168,000 | £162,500 | 332 |
| 2010–11 | £169,450 | £163,250 | 292 |
| 2009–10 | £168,000 | £163,975 | 341 |
| 2008–09 | £160,000 | £155,000 | 261 |
| 2007–08 | £180,475 | £172,625 | 308 |
| 2006–07 | £179,975 | £169,000 | 520 |
| 2005–06 | £160,000 | £159,000 | 483 |
| 2004–05 | £165,000 | £154,000 | 369 |
| 2003–04 | £148,000 | £141,250 | 577 |
| 2002–03 | £124,000 | £122,000 | 547 |
| 2001–02 | £99,950 | £94,950 | 627 |
| 2000–01 | £78,000 | £80,000 | 571 |
| 1999–00 | £71,500 | £71,000 | 598 |
| 1998–99 | £60,000 | £63,500 | 559 |
| 1997–98 | £58,000 | £59,437 | 522 |
| 1996–97 | £54,000 | £55,747 | 521 |
| 1995–96 | £50,000 | £52,000 | 366 |
The median Brixham home sold for £190K in the year to August 2016, and £276K in the year to August 2026.
HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard (category A) sales of houses and flats inside the built-up area, by the year to August. These are actual sale prices, not an index: a year with more flats or new builds moves the median as well as prices do. The newest months are still being registered.
What homes sell for, by type
Medians of 799 standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026. The tick on each bar is the typical UK town of 2,500+.
Against the typical UK town, detached houses here sell for 10% more, semis 5% more and terraced houses 11% more.
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| Type | Median | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £425,000 | 252 | 32% |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | 208 | 26% |
| Terraced | £250,000 | 232 | 29% |
| Flat or maisonette | £152,500 | 107 | 13% |
HM Land Registry Price Paid: category A sales (one home at full market value), so repossessions, company buy-to-lets and bulk sales are left out. In the last 12 months the median was £275,500 (234 sales).
Cheapest in Furzeham with Summercombe; dearest in Churston with Galmpton
Median sale by council ward (the part of each ward inside Brixham’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Terraced medians compare like with like.
| Ward | Median | Terraced | Flats | Sales | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furzeham with Summercombe | £275,500 | £245,000 | 14% | 460 | |
| St Peter's with St Mary's | £292,000 | £256,250 | 14% | 303 | |
| Churston with Galmpton | £460,000 | — | 3% | 36 |
Detached houses are 67% of sales in Churston with Galmpton, the dearest ward.
Wards are the 2022 council wards; wards with fewer than 30 sales are left out.
About 270 sales a year, down from 630 before 2008
Standard sales in Brixham each year to August. Since the 2008 crash the market here has run at about 40% of its mid-2000s pace. Sales jumped in 2020–21, when stamp duty was cut.
The last bar (234 sales) is still filling: Land Registry adds a sale when the transfer is registered, often two to three months after completion.
A typical Brixham home costs 6.7 years of area income
Most lenders cap a mortgage at about 4.5 times household income. The calculator starts from the area’s mean household income; switch to your own.
An estimate, not a mortgage offer: borrowing of up to 4.5× income, a 25-year repayment mortgage at the rate shown, and Band D council tax (your band may differ). Stamp duty uses England’s rates from 1 April 2025, with first-time buyers’ relief. Other debts, fees and survey costs aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about £817 a month
The average private rent in the Torbay council area is £920 a month (August 2026): £539 less than England’s, £325 less than South West’s.
By size a month, the tick is England
ONS Price Index of Private Rents: the mean rent of all private tenancies, new and existing (not asking rents), for the whole Torbay council area. It’s the smallest area the ONS publishes.
Band D is £2,550 for 2026–27; Torbay council’s average is the 2nd lowest of Devon’s 10
Brixham’s bill is the Torbay council’s share with the county or combined authority, police and fire shares, plus the parish or town council precept of about £93 a year. England’s average Band D is £2,392. Since 1993–94, Torbay’s average Band D has risen from £537: 360% in 33 years.
Average Band D 2026–27, by council
| Band value in 1991 | A year | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Band A up to £40,000 | £1,700 | £170 |
| Band B £40,001–52,000 | £1,984 | £198 |
| Band C £52,001–68,000 | £2,267 | £227 |
| Band D £68,001–88,000 | £2,550 | £255 |
| Band E £88,001–120,000 | £3,117 | £312 |
| Band F £120,001–160,000 | £3,684 | £368 |
| Band G £160,001–320,000 | £4,251 | £425 |
| Band H over £320,000 | £5,101 | £510 |
Your band comes from what your home would have sold for in April 1991, set by the Valuation Office Agency; look it up on GOV.UK. Each band pays a fixed fraction of Band D, from six ninths (A) to two (H). Living alone takes 25% off.
71% of households own their home; 21% rent privately
Census 2021, all households. More households own outright than across Devon’s towns (50% against 38%).
Devon and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
357th of 402 UK towns its size for what a home costs against income
Median sale price ÷ the area’s mean household income, cheapest first, for UK towns of 12,000 to 24,000 people: the towns either side of Brixham, and others in Devon.
| # | Town | Median home | ÷ income | Rent | Band D | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Port Glasgow Inverclyde | £92K | 2.2× | £768 | £1,674 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 184 | Tiverton Devon | £250K | 4.9× | £878 | £2,654 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 237 | Honiton Devon | £280K | 5.2× | £968 | £2,709 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 240 | Ivybridge Devon | £285K | 5.3× | £1,012 | £2,712 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 243 | Bideford Devon | £227K | 5.3× | £789 | £2,650 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 354 | Petersfield Hampshire | £445K | 6.7× | £1,262 | £2,451 | B |
| 355 | Farncombe Surrey | £485K | 6.7× | £1,475 | £2,638 | C+ |
| 356 | Marple Greater Manchester | £344K | 6.7× | £1,119 | £2,619 | D |
| 357 | Brixham Devon | £290K | 6.7× | £920 | £2,550 | D− |
| 358 | Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley Kent | £465K | 6.7× | £1,735 | £2,463 | C− |
| 359 | Seaford East Sussex | £375K | 6.7× | £1,333 | £2,732 | D− |
| 360 | Ashford Surrey | £450K | 6.8× | £1,696 | £2,526 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 402 | Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire | £950K | 13.6× | £1,475 | £2,511 | C− |
Rent and Band D are for each town’s main council area; Northern Ireland has no council tax (its towns pay domestic rates) and no council-area rents; Scotland’s rents are published for broad areas, not councils. Cost letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; this order is context only.
Stoke Gabriel sells for £175K more; Torquay for £70K less
Median sale, September 2023 to August 2026, for the built-up areas around Brixham, shaded against Brixham’s median. Five-year change where both years had 20+ sales.
| Town | Cost | Median | New | 5 yrs | Band D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brixham | D− | £290K | 0% | +4% | £2,550 |
| Dartmouth | C− | £340K | 0% | −18% | £2,754 |
| Paignton | D− | £260K | 4% | +8.5% | £2,457 |
| Stoke Gabriel | C− | £465K | 0% | +6.5% | £2,566 |
| Marldon | C | £334K | 0% | +13% | £2,602 |
| Torquay | D | £220K | 2% | +7.3% | £2,457 |
| Totnes | C− | £378K | 7% | +22% | £2,728 |
| Kingskerswell | C | £305K | 0% | +3.7% | £2,616 |
Stoke Gabriel, 4.7 miles away, has the dearest homes nearby (£465,000). Torquay is the cheapest (£220,000).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Sale prices aren’t valuations. A median is the middle sale, so a year with more flats or new builds moves it even if no home changed in value. The ONS House Price Index adjusts for the mix; it is published by council, not for Brixham’s built-up area.
- Rent is for the whole council. The ONS publishes private rents by council only, so the figure covers the whole Torbay council area, not just Brixham.
- Income is a mean. The grade divides costs by the ONS’s mean household income for the council area (£43,204), which a few high earners pull up; the median household’s is lower.
- The newest months are thin. Land Registry registers a sale weeks or months after completion, so the year to August 2026 will gain sales as registrations catch up.
Questions about living costs in Brixham
Is Brixham expensive to live in?
The median home in Brixham sold for £290,000 between September 2023 and August 2026, £13,000 more than the typical UK town. That is 6.7 times the area’s mean household income, cheaper for local incomes than in 24% of UK towns. The average private rent of £920 a month takes 26% of that income.
Are house prices falling in Brixham?
The median sale was £275,500 in the year to August 2026, down 7% on the year before, after peaking at £307,500 in the year to August 2023. Over five years prices went up 4%, and over ten went up 45%.
What are the cheapest areas to buy in Brixham?
By council ward, Furzeham with Summercombe (£275,500), St Peter's with St Mary's (£292,000) and Churston with Galmpton (£460,000) had the lowest median sale prices in the three years to August 2026; Churston with Galmpton the highest (£460,000). Part of the difference is the mix of homes: wards with more flats sell for less.
How much is rent in Brixham?
The ONS puts the average private rent in the Torbay council area at £920 a month in August 2026: £619 for one bedroom, £817 for two, £997 for three and £1,296 for four or more. Rents went up 4% over the year, against 4% across England.
How much is council tax in Brixham?
Band D is £2,550 for 2026–27, against England’s average of £2,392. Band A is £1,700 and Band C £2,267. Your bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
How much do I need to earn to buy in Brixham?
With a 10% deposit and borrowing of 4.5 times income, a household needs about £58,000 a year to buy the median Brixham home of £290,000, or about £30,500 for the median flat (£152,500).
Is Brixham cheaper than Paignton?
No: Paignton’s median sale was £260,000 over the same three years, against Brixham’s £290,000.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since 1995 (years to August), by council ward and postcode district · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents, monthly since January 2015 (councils, regions, England and Wales) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · MHCLG Band D council tax by council, 1993–94 to 2026–27; Welsh Government council tax levels 2026–27 · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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