Living in Northampton, Northamptonshire
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Free Northampton Area Report
Sold prices, price trends, local rents and house prices against earnings for Northampton - compiled from official sources into one report. Enter your email and we will send you your copy.
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Homes in West Northamptonshire cost 7.83 times median annual earnings for people working there (2025).
- Across England: 7.63 times (2025)
- West Northamptonshire a year earlier: 7.92 times (2024)
What this measures: the median price paid for homes in West Northamptonshire over the 12 months to September 2025, divided by the median gross annual pay of full-time employees who work in West Northamptonshire, 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 Northampton (postcode sector NN1 2)
| Address | Price | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 108, ALPHA HOUSE, BROAD STREET | £70,000 | Flat | Sep 2026 |
| FLAT 5, THE VIEWPOINT, 50A, SHEEP STREET | £173,000 | Flat | Sep 2026 |
| FLAT G14, ALPHA HOUSE, BROAD STREET | £105,000 | Flat | Jul 2026 |
| 25, PIKE LANE | £180,000 | Terraced | Jul 2026 |
| FLAT 9, ST. ANDREWS COURT, ST ANDREWS STREET | £135,000 | Flat | Jun 2026 |
| FLAT 9, BELMONT COURT, UPPER PRIORY STREET | £80,000 | Flat | Jun 2026 |
| 17, BROOK STREET | £150,000 | Terraced | May 2026 |
| FLAT 7, 25 - 33, REGENT STREET | £155,000 | Flat | Apr 2026 |
| 47, BROOK STREET | £146,600 | Terraced | Dec 2025 |
| 3, UPPINGHAM STREET | £147,000 | Terraced | Dec 2025 |
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