Exton Farmhouse · Photo: Simon Cobb · CC0Measured against local pay, Exton costs more to live in than 85% of UK towns
The middle sale price in Exton is £900,000. That is the middle of 22 standard sales from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. Exton grades C− for cost of living: prices, rent and council tax against what households in the area earn.
What Exton’s housing numbers say
Rents are rising faster than across England
The average rent in the East Devon council area went up 6% in the year to August 2026, against 4% across England. Over five years it rose 24% (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.
Exton grades C− for cost of living
Each cost against what households in the East Devon council area earn (£53,349 a year, mean), ranked against UK towns.
The median home pulls the grade down: against local incomes it costs more than in almost every UK town.
What homes sell for, by type
Medians of 22 standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026. The tick on each bar is the typical UK town of 2,500+.
Show as a table
| Type | Median | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £905,000 | 19 | 86% |
| Semi-detached | — | 2 | 9% |
| Terraced | — | 1 | 5% |
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 Exton home costs 16.9 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 £896 a month
The average private rent in the East Devon council area is £968 a month (August 2026): £491 less than England’s, £277 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 East Devon council area. It’s the smallest area the ONS publishes.
Band D is £2,599 for 2026–27; East Devon council’s average is the 4th lowest of Devon’s 10
Exton’s bill is the East Devon council’s share with the county or combined authority, police and fire shares, plus the parish or town council precept of about £118 a year. England’s average Band D is £2,392. Since 1993–94, East Devon’s average Band D has risen from £497: 422% in 33 years.
Average Band D 2026–27, by council
| Band value in 1991 | A year | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Band A up to £40,000 | £1,733 | £173 |
| Band B £40,001–52,000 | £2,021 | £202 |
| Band C £52,001–68,000 | £2,310 | £231 |
| Band D £68,001–88,000 | £2,599 | £260 |
| Band E £88,001–120,000 | £3,177 | £318 |
| Band F £120,001–160,000 | £3,754 | £375 |
| Band G £160,001–320,000 | £4,332 | £433 |
| Band H over £320,000 | £5,198 | £520 |
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.
89% of households own their home; 10% rent privately
Census 2021, all households. More households own outright than across Devon’s towns (60% against 38%).
Devon and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
How Exton compares with UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000
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 Exton, 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 |
| … | ||||||
| 1207 | Amberley Gloucestershire | £855K | 14.9× | £1,041 | £2,453 | C |
| 1208 | Ifold West Sussex | £875K | 15.2× | £1,333 | £2,474 | D |
| 1209 | Rock Cornwall | £753K | 16.4× | £1,000 | £2,448 | D− |
| 1210 | Exton Devon | £900K | 16.9× | £968 | £2,599 | C− |
| 1211 | West Clandon Surrey | £1.4M | 20.1× | £1,736 | £2,545 | D |
| 1212 | Lower Shiplake Oxfordshire | £1.5M | 21.5× | £1,402 | £2,497 | 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.
Starcross sells for £650K less than Exton
Median sale, September 2023 to August 2026, for the built-up areas around Exton, shaded against Exton’s median. Five-year change where both years had 20+ sales.
Starcross is the cheapest (£250,000).
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 Exton’s built-up area.
- Rent is for the whole council. The ONS publishes private rents by council only, so the figure covers the whole East Devon council area, not just Exton.
- Income is a mean. The grade divides costs by the ONS’s mean household income for the council area (£53,349), 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 Exton
Is Exton expensive to live in?
The median home in Exton sold for £900,000 between September 2023 and August 2026, £623,000 more than the typical UK town. That is 16.9 times the area’s mean household income, cheaper for local incomes than in 0% of UK towns. The average private rent of £968 a month takes 22% of that income.
How much is rent in Exton?
The ONS puts the average private rent in the East Devon council area at £968 a month in August 2026: £685 for one bedroom, £896 for two, £1,122 for three and £1,615 for four or more. Rents went up 6% over the year, against 4% across England.
How much is council tax in Exton?
Band D is £2,599 for 2026–27, against England’s average of £2,392. Band A is £1,733 and Band C £2,310. Your bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
How much do I need to earn to buy in Exton?
With a 10% deposit and borrowing of 4.5 times income, a household needs about £180,000 a year to buy the median Exton home of £900,000.
Is Exton cheaper than Exeter?
No: Exeter’s median sale was £295,000 over the same three years, against Exton’s £900,000, and its average rent £1,318 a month against £968.
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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