That is the middle of 964 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 4.6 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.
964 homes sold in three years: 253 detached houses, 448 semi-detached houses, 158 terraced houses and 105 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.1 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£443K
median sale · 253 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£350K–£550K
Last 12 months
£450K67 sold
Semi-detached houses£260K
median sale · 448 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£220K–£308K
Last 12 months
£280K113 sold
Terraced houses£196K
median sale · 158 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£170K–£233K
Last 12 months
£196K50 sold
Flats and maisonettes£142K
median sale · 105 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£115K–£207K
Last 12 months
£160K20 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 46% of sales
Detached houses26%
Semi-detached houses46%
Terraced houses16%
Flats and maisonettes11%
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 Ormskirk’s homes sold for between £205K and £355K
One sale in ten was under £156K and one in ten over £510K. 44% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £265,000, sits in the £250–300K band
964 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.6 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £60,000 in 1995 to £276,000 in the last 12 months (£211,995 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
250 sales in the last 12 months, against 539 in 1999, the busiest year, and 232 in 2008. Sales fell by 45% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 47% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ormskirk costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ormskirk, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£117K
£150K
£307K
£318K
£307K
£345K
£450K
Semi-detached houses
£59K
£72K
£158K
£169K
£174K
£210K
£280K
Terraced houses
£46K
£59K
£134K
£142K
£147K
£170K
£196K
Flats and maisonettes
£45K
£52K
£131K
£140K
£160K
£132K
£160K
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
907 new homes have been sold in Ormskirk since 1995; the share peaked at 21% in 2012.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
19% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 8.7% sold leasehold in Ormskirk. 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
Prescot Road is Ormskirk’s busiest street, with 23 sales in three years
73 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 21 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
Prescot Road
L39
23
£560,000
Mixed
2
High Grove Park
L40
22
£280,500
Mixed
3
County Road
L39
22
£245,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Southport Road
L39
18
£218,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Aughton Park Drive
L39
17
£309,000
Mostly flats
6
Noel Gate
L39
16
£317,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Redgate
L39
15
£257,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Wigan Road
L39
15
£205,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Green Lane
L39
15
£115,000
Mostly flats
10
Long Lane
L39
14
£447,500
Mixed
11
St Helens Road
L39
13
£490,000
Mixed
12
Grimshaw Lane
L39
13
£215,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Delph Park Avenue
L39
12
£330,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Calder Avenue
L39
12
£232,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Marians Drive
L39
12
£222,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Granville Park: £950,000
Ormskirk median£265K
Granville Park£950K
Ruff Lane (L39)£800K
Swanpool Lane£655K
Town Green Lane£613K
Prescot Road£560K
Cheapest streets
Green Lane: £115,000
Ormskirk median£265K
Green Lane£115K
Black Moss Lane£118K
Halsall Court£118K
Middlewood Road£135K
Halsall Lane£158K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.3 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 Lancashire
Ormskirk is the 11th most expensive of 65 towns in Lancashire
Ormskirk is one of Lancashire’s dearest 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 Ormskirk
What is the average house price in Ormskirk?
The median home in Ormskirk sold for £265,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 964 standard sales (£276,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £442,500, semi-detached houses £260,000, terraced houses £196,250 and flats and maisonettes £142,000.
Are house prices going up in Ormskirk?
The median was £270,000 in 2025, up 8% on 2024 (£251,000), and £276,000 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 Ormskirk each year?
250 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 372 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Ormskirk?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Granville Park (L39, £950,000), Ruff Lane (L39, £800,000) and Swanpool Lane (L39, £654,500).
Is Ormskirk expensive for Lancashire?
Ormskirk is the 11th most expensive of 65 towns of 2,500 or more in Lancashire 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.