That is the middle of 1,599 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 6.3 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.
1,599 homes sold in three years: 354 detached houses, 598 semi-detached houses, 414 terraced houses and 233 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£450K
median sale · 354 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£413K–£535K
Last 12 months
£451K84 sold
New build
£449K
Semi-detached houses£373K
median sale · 598 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£323K–£410K
Last 12 months
£380K164 sold
New build
£407K
Terraced houses£300K
median sale · 414 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£338K
Last 12 months
£300K105 sold
New build
£385K
Flats and maisonettes£204K
median sale · 233 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£170K–£232K
Last 12 months
£210K52 sold
New build
£228K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses22%
Semi-detached houses37%
Terraced houses26%
Flats and maisonettes15%
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 Didcot’s homes sold for between £277K and £418K
One sale in ten was under £208K and one in ten over £488K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £350,000, sits in the £300–400K band
1,599 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £58,000 in 1995 to £362,500 in the last 12 months (£318,730 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
405 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,072 in 1998, the busiest year, and 329 in 2008. Sales fell by 46% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 29% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Didcot costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Didcot, 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
£92K
£175K
£250K
£285K
£335K
£385K
£451K
Semi-detached houses
£59K
£106K
£178K
£212K
£280K
£318K
£380K
Terraced houses
£56K
£94K
£159K
£182K
£243K
£255K
£300K
Flats and maisonettes
£40K
£67K
£118K
£125K
£178K
£205K
£210K
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
7% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
4,680 new homes have been sold in Didcot since 1995; the share peaked at 57% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £413,246
against £335,000 for a home sold on, 23% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.8% sold leasehold in Didcot. 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
Anning Way is Didcot’s busiest street, with 38 sales in three years
125 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 42 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
Anning Way
OX11
38
£440,950
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
2
Greenwood Way
OX11
31
£215,000
Mostly flats
3
Eskdale Drive
OX11
27
£379,996
Mostly terraced houses · new builds
4
Diamond Drive
OX11
23
£236,000
Mixed
5
Hodgkin Way
OX11
22
£263,225
Mostly flats · new builds
6
Lonsdale Crescent
OX11
18
£570,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
7
Hagbourne Road
OX11
18
£332,500
Mixed
8
Broadway
OX11
18
£236,500
Mixed
9
Loyd Road
OX11
16
£467,500
Mostly detached houses
10
Heather Way
OX11
16
£412,000
Mixed · new builds
11
Mole Lane
OX11
16
£409,995
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
12
Green Close
OX11
16
£340,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Queensway
OX11
16
£318,750
Mixed
14
Blackthorn Road
OX11
15
£385,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Spey Glen Drive
OX11
14
£438,500
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
Dearest streets
Lonsdale Crescent: £570,000
Didcot median£350K
Lonsdale Crescent£570K
Westwater Way£521K
Icknield Close£495K
Loyd Road£468K
Bishops Orchard£465K
Cheapest streets
Candytuft Way: £165,000
Didcot median£350K
Candytuft Way£165K
All Saints Court£168K
Fairacres Road£170K
Linacre Close£171K
Rymans Court£172K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.5 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 Oxfordshire
Didcot is the 30th most expensive of 40 towns in Oxfordshire
Didcot is in the middle of Oxfordshire’s 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 Didcot
What is the average house price in Didcot?
The median home in Didcot sold for £350,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,599 standard sales (£362,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £450,000, semi-detached houses £372,750, terraced houses £300,000 and flats and maisonettes £204,000.
Are house prices going up in Didcot?
The median was £360,000 in 2025, up 7% on 2024 (£335,000), and £362,500 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 Didcot each year?
405 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 696 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Didcot?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Lonsdale Crescent (OX11, £570,000), Westwater Way (OX11, £521,000) and Icknield Close (OX11, £495,000).
How much does a new build cost in Didcot?
New homes sold for a median £413,246 over three years, against £335,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 13% of sales.
Is Didcot expensive for Oxfordshire?
Didcot is the 30th most expensive of 40 towns of 2,500 or more in Oxfordshire 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.