Living in Ely, Cambridgeshire
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Homes in East Cambridgeshire cost 9.97 times median annual earnings for people working there (2025).
- Across England: 7.63 times (2025)
- East Cambridgeshire a year earlier: 10.24 times (2024)
What this measures: the median price paid for homes in East Cambridgeshire over the 12 months to September 2025, divided by the median gross annual pay of full-time employees who work in East Cambridgeshire, 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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Recent sold prices near Ely (postcode sector CB7 4)
| Address | Price | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12, ELYSIAN CLOSE | £295,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 7, ORFORD CLOSE | £365,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 31, MONARCH WAY | £443,000 | Detached | Aug 2026 |
| 48, BACK HILL | £720,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 4, ASH GROVE | £240,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 11, OSIER CLOSE | £312,000 | Semi-detached | Aug 2026 |
| 61, LUMLEY CLOSE | £245,000 | Terraced | Jul 2026 |
| 33, NEW BARNS ROAD | £250,000 | Terraced | Jul 2026 |
| 82, HENLEY WAY | £295,000 | Semi-detached | Jul 2026 |
| 104, HIGH BARNS | £240,000 | Terraced | Jul 2026 |
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.