That is the middle of 257 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 9.4 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.
257 homes sold in three years: 5 detached houses, 55 semi-detached houses, 152 terraced houses and 45 flats and maisonettes.
Semi-detached houses£353K
median sale · 55 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£325K–£385K
Last 12 months
£365K14 sold
Terraced houses£324K
median sale · 152 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£350K
Last 12 months
£326K44 sold
Flats and maisonettes£195K
median sale · 45 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£162K–£215K
Last 12 months
£204K9 sold
Fewer sales
Detached houses: 5 sold, median £347K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A terraced town: 59% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses2%
Semi-detached houses21%
Terraced houses59%
Flats and maisonettes18%
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 Tilbury’s homes sold for between £270K and £350K
One sale in ten was under £195K and one in ten over £380K. 21% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £320,000, sits in the £300–400K band
257 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 9.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £34,500 in 1995 to £325,000 in the last 12 months (£235,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
69 sales in the last 12 months, against 271 in 2007, the busiest year, and 45 in 2009. Sales fell by 83% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Tilbury costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Tilbury, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Flats and maisonettes rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Semi-detached houses
£46K
£61K
£145K
£138K
£208K
£293K
£365K
Terraced houses
£35K
£57K
£140K
£131K
£190K
£250K
£326K
Flats and maisonettes
£20K
£33K
£105K
£80K
£117K
£160K
£204K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 27% in 2019
326 new homes have been sold in Tilbury since 1995; the share peaked at 27% in 2019.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
17% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Tilbury. 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
Dock Road is Tilbury’s busiest street, with 26 sales in three years
13 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 4 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
Dock Road
RM18
26
£215,500
Mostly flats
2
Burns Place
RM18
13
£240,000
Mixed
3
Feenan Highway
RM18
12
£363,000
Mixed
4
Byron Gardens
RM18
10
£342,500
Mostly terraced houses
5
St Chads Road
RM18
9
£350,250
Mixed
6
Stephenson Avenue
RM18
7
£414,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Dunlop Road
RM18
7
£200,000
Mostly flats
8
Brennan Road
RM18
6
£336,250
Mostly terraced houses
9
Fleming Gardens
RM18
6
£313,500
Mostly terraced houses
10
Chaucer Close
RM18
5
£325,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Sandhurst Road
RM18
5
£320,000
Mixed
12
Monarch Close
RM18
5
£315,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Thackeray Avenue
RM18
5
£285,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Stephenson Avenue: £414,000
Tilbury median£320K
Stephenson Avenue£414K
Feenan Highway£363K
St Chads Road£350K
Byron Gardens£343K
Brennan Road£336K
Cheapest streets
Dunlop Road: £200,000
Tilbury median£320K
Dunlop Road£200K
Dock Road£216K
Burns Place£240K
Thackeray Avenue£285K
Fleming Gardens£314K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is twice 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 Essex
Tilbury is the 67th most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Tilbury is one of Essex’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 Tilbury
What is the average house price in Tilbury?
The median home in Tilbury sold for £320,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 257 standard sales (£325,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £347,000, semi-detached houses £353,000, terraced houses £324,000 and flats and maisonettes £195,000.
Are house prices going up in Tilbury?
The median was £325,000 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£308,000), and £325,000 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 Tilbury each year?
69 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 113 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Tilbury?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Stephenson Avenue (RM18, £414,000), Feenan Highway (RM18, £363,000) and St Chads Road (RM18, £350,250).
Is Tilbury expensive for Essex?
Tilbury is the 67th most expensive of 81 towns of 2,500 or more in Essex 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.
Photo: David Kemp · CC BY-SA 2.0