Living in Derby, Derbyshire
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Sold prices, price trends, local rents and house prices against earnings for Derby - compiled from official sources into one report. Enter your email and we will send you your copy.
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Homes in Derby cost 5.25 times median annual earnings for people working there (2025).
- Across England: 7.63 times (2025)
- Derby a year earlier: 5.28 times (2024)
What this measures: the median price paid for homes in Derby over the 12 months to September 2025, divided by the median gross annual pay of full-time employees who work in Derby, wherever they live. That is what "workplace-based" means - it is about jobs in the area, not the earnings of people who live there. Earnings come from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (April 2025). A higher ratio means homes are less affordable for people working locally. The latest year uses provisional earnings, which ONS revises the following year. This is a council-area figure, not a valuation of any home.
Source: Office for National Statistics, House price to workplace-based earnings ratio, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Last reviewed 20 October 2026.
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Local administration around Derby
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Recent sold prices near Derby (postcode sector DE1 2)
| Address | Price | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5, MIDLAND PLACE | £195,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 35, ERASMUS DRIVE | £225,000 | Terraced | Jul 2026 |
| 1, MIDLAND PLACE | £252,500 | Semi-detached | Jul 2026 |
| 29, CARRINGTON STREET | £245,000 | Terraced | Jul 2026 |
| APARTMENT 9, AMBER HOUSE, RAILWAY TERRACE | £130,000 | Flat | Jul 2026 |
| FLAT 11, NIGHTINGALE MEWS, CALVERT STREET | £155,000 | Flat | May 2026 |
| 8, LIVERSAGE ROAD | £210,000 | Terraced | May 2026 |
| FLAT 2, 11, TRINITY STREET | £169,000 | Flat | Apr 2026 |
| 15, CASTLEWARD COURT, TRINITY WALK | £160,000 | Flat | Mar 2026 |
| 24, PARK STREET | £190,000 | Flat | Mar 2026 |
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.