Photo: Rob Purvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Median home price in Copplestone: £265,000
That is the middle of 50 standard sales from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. Copplestone grades B for cost of living: prices, rent and council tax against what households in the area earn.
What Copplestone’s housing numbers say
Rents have risen more slowly than across England
The average rent in the Mid Devon council area went up 1.4% in the year to August 2026, against 4% across England. Over five years it rose 26% (England 35%). Renting ↓
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.
Copplestone grades B for cost of living
Each cost against what households in the Mid Devon council area earn (£51,535 a year, mean), ranked against UK towns.
Council tax pulls the grade down: against local incomes it costs more than in 69% of UK towns. Rent helps it: cheaper for local incomes than in 73% of UK towns.
What homes sell for, by type
Medians of 50 standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026. The tick on each bar is the typical UK town of 2,500+.
Every type sells for less than in the typical UK town: semis by 8%.
Show as a table
| Type | Median | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £368,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | 23 | 46% |
| Terraced | £265,000 | 17 | 34% |
| Flat or maisonette | — | 2 | 4% |
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.
A typical Copplestone home costs 5.1 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 £809 a month
The average private rent in the Mid Devon council area is £878 a month (August 2026): £581 less than England’s, £367 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 Mid Devon council area. It’s the smallest area the ONS publishes.
Band D is £2,635 for 2026–27; Mid Devon council’s average is the 2nd highest of Devon’s 10
Copplestone’s bill is the Mid Devon council’s share with the county or combined authority, police and fire shares, plus the parish or town council precept of about £85 a year. England’s average Band D is £2,392. Since 1993–94, Mid Devon’s average Band D has risen from £543: 389% in 33 years.
Average Band D 2026–27, by council
| Band value in 1991 | A year | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Band A up to £40,000 | £1,757 | £176 |
| Band B £40,001–52,000 | £2,049 | £205 |
| Band C £52,001–68,000 | £2,342 | £234 |
| Band D £68,001–88,000 | £2,635 | £264 |
| Band E £88,001–120,000 | £3,221 | £322 |
| Band F £120,001–160,000 | £3,806 | £381 |
| Band G £160,001–320,000 | £4,392 | £439 |
| Band H over £320,000 | £5,270 | £527 |
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; 16% rent privately
Census 2021, all households. More households own with a mortgage than across Devon’s towns (39% against 26%).
Devon and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
297th of 1,213 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 1,000 to 2,000 people: the towns either side of Copplestone, and others in Devon.
| # | Town | Median home | ÷ income | Rent | Band D | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynemouth Northumberland | £74K | 1.6× | £695 | £2,576 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 107 | Dunkeswell Devon | £220K | 4.1× | £968 | £2,554 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 121 | Heathfield Devon | £220K | 4.2× | £961 | £2,647 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 212 | Princetown Devon | £239K | 4.8× | £846 | £2,634 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 214 | Starcross Devon | £250K | 4.8× | £961 | £2,604 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 294 | Hook East Riding of Yorkshire | £250K | 5.1× | £724 | £2,438 | A− |
| 295 | Ryhall Rutland | £320K | 5.1× | £961 | £2,751 | A |
| 296 | Milford Derbyshire | £250K | 5.1× | £799 | £2,437 | B+ |
| 297 | Copplestone Devon | £265K | 5.1× | £878 | £2,635 | B |
| 298 | Chudleigh Knighton Devon | £268K | 5.1× | £961 | £2,608 | B− |
| 299 | Ansley Warwickshire | £258K | 5.1× | £982 | £2,501 | C+ |
| 300 | Maiden Newton Dorset | £270K | 5.2× | £1,056 | £2,702 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 1213 | Caldy Merseyside | £1M | 22.3× | £859 | £2,501 | D− |
Rent and Band D are for each town’s main council area. Cost letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; this order is context only.
Morchard Bishop sells for £75K more than Copplestone
Median sale, September 2023 to August 2026, for the built-up areas around Copplestone, shaded against Copplestone’s median. Five-year change where both years had 20+ sales.
| Town | Cost | Median | New | 5 yrs | Band D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copplestone | B | £265K | 0% | — | £2,635 |
| Morchard Bishop | C+ | £340K | 3% | — | £2,579 |
| Bow | B+ | £257K | 0% | — | £2,580 |
| Crediton | B | £260K | 0% | +6.8% | £2,738 |
| North Tawton | C+ | £278K | 36% | — | £2,794 |
| Witheridge | C | £270K | 0% | −7.1% | £2,610 |
| Chulmleigh | C | £265K | 0% | — | £2,576 |
| Winkleigh | D | £300K | 15% | +14% | £2,564 |
Morchard Bishop, 3 miles away, has the dearest homes nearby (£340,000). New builds were 36% of sales in North Tawton.
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 Copplestone’s built-up area.
- Rent is for the whole council. The ONS publishes private rents by council only, so the figure covers the whole Mid Devon council area, not just Copplestone.
- Income is a mean. The grade divides costs by the ONS’s mean household income for the council area (£51,535), 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 Copplestone
Is Copplestone expensive to live in?
The median home in Copplestone sold for £265,000 between September 2023 and August 2026, £12,000 less than the typical UK town. That is 5.1 times the area’s mean household income, cheaper for local incomes than in 59% of UK towns. The average private rent of £878 a month takes 20% of that income.
How much is rent in Copplestone?
The ONS puts the average private rent in the Mid Devon council area at £878 a month in August 2026: £641 for one bedroom, £809 for two, £995 for three and £1,452 for four or more. Rents held flat over the year, against 4% across England.
How much is council tax in Copplestone?
Band D is £2,635 for 2026–27, against England’s average of £2,392. Band A is £1,757 and Band C £2,342. Your bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
How much do I need to earn to buy in Copplestone?
With a 10% deposit and borrowing of 4.5 times income, a household needs about £53,000 a year to buy the median Copplestone home of £265,000.
Is Copplestone cheaper than Exeter?
Yes: Exeter’s median sale was £295,000 over the same three years, against Copplestone’s £265,000, and its average rent £1,318 a month against £878.
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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