That is the middle of 745 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 5.2 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.
745 homes sold in three years: 212 detached houses, 180 semi-detached houses, 301 terraced houses and 52 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£305K
median sale · 212 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£355K
Last 12 months
£324K60 sold
Semi-detached houses£230K
median sale · 180 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£202K–£250K
Last 12 months
£225K66 sold
Terraced houses£185K
median sale · 301 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£165K–£210K
Last 12 months
£185K78 sold
Flats and maisonettes£123K
median sale · 52 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£105K–£140K
Last 12 months
£100K9 sold
The mix
A terraced town: 40% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses28%
Semi-detached houses24%
Terraced houses40%
Flats and maisonettes7%
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 Thetford’s homes sold for between £175K and £272K
One sale in ten was under £139K and one in ten over £335K. 68% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £217,000, sits in the £200–250K band
745 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.2 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £41,995 in 1995 to £220,000 in the last 12 months (£181,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
213 sales in the last 12 months, against 740 in 2006, the busiest year, and 237 in 2020. Sales fell by 60% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 12%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 46% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Thetford costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Thetford, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£68K
£110K
£180K
£175K
£212K
£275K
£324K
Semi-detached houses
£44K
£60K
£130K
£125K
£152K
£185K
£225K
Terraced houses
£36K
£47K
£100K
£106K
£131K
£153K
£185K
Flats and maisonettes
£27K
£30K
£95K
£78K
£105K
£120K
£100K
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
1,624 new homes have been sold in Thetford since 1995; the share peaked at 32% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
7% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.6% sold leasehold in Thetford. 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
St Johns Way is Thetford’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
49 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 12 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
St Johns Way
IP24
19
£185,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Fairfields
IP24
16
£213,750
Mostly terraced houses
3
Woodlands Drive
IP24
15
£245,000
Mixed
4
Nunnery Drive
IP24
13
£330,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Redgate
IP24
12
£283,500
Mixed
6
Ben Culey Drive
IP24
12
£108,250
Mostly flats
7
Vicarage Road
IP24
11
£220,000
Mixed
8
St Martins Way
IP24
11
£170,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Highlands
IP24
10
£271,500
Mostly detached houses
10
Stanford Road
IP24
10
£267,500
Mixed
11
Thyme Close
IP24
10
£195,500
Mixed
12
Earls Street
IP24
10
£189,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Arlington Way
IP24
9
£515,000
Mostly detached houses
14
Tennyson Way
IP24
9
£263,000
Mixed
15
Bury Road
IP24
9
£190,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Arlington Way: £515,000
Thetford median£217K
Arlington Way£515K
Nunnery Drive£330K
Mackenzie Road£323K
Churchill Road£313K
Foxglove Road£310K
Cheapest streets
Hanbury Court: £102,500
Thetford median£217K
Hanbury Court£103K
Ben Culey Drive£108K
Old Market Street£145K
Station Road£159K
Mingay Road£168K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5 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 Norfolk
Thetford is the 49th most expensive of 52 towns in Norfolk
Thetford is one of Norfolk’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 Thetford
What is the average house price in Thetford?
The median home in Thetford sold for £217,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 745 standard sales (£220,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £305,000, semi-detached houses £230,000, terraced houses £185,000 and flats and maisonettes £122,500.
Are house prices going up in Thetford?
The median was £217,750 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£218,000), and £220,000 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 Thetford each year?
213 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 313 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Thetford?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Arlington Way (IP24, £515,000), Nunnery Drive (IP24, £330,000) and Mackenzie Road (IP24, £322,500).
Is Thetford expensive for Norfolk?
Thetford is the 49th most expensive of 52 towns of 2,500 or more in Norfolk 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.
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