The typical Warrington home sold for £250,000 last year. Appleton's median is £450,000, Fairfield and Howley's £140,000. Land Registry sales, ward by ward.

The middle home sale in Warrington borough over the last twelve months was £250,000. That single figure hides the thing worth knowing: in Appleton the median was £450,000, and in Fairfield and Howley, barely three miles north, it was £140,000. Warrington is one borough with a housing market that runs more than three to one from edge to middle.

Everything below comes from completed sales recorded by HM Land Registry, pulled for the twelve months to 30 June 2026 and matched to a borough ward through each sale’s full postcode. That matching matters here more than in most places: WA3 is shared four ways with Wigan, Salford and St Helens, WA4 reaches into Halton and Cheshire West, and WA13 crosses into Trafford and Cheshire East. Asking prices are not used anywhere on this page.

What homes sold for, ward by ward

Median home sale price by Warrington ward Horizontal bar chart of median completed home sale prices in each Warrington borough ward, July 2025 to June 2026. Appleton is highest at £450,000, then Grappenhall £432,500, Lymm South £415,000, Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft £380,000, Stockton Heath £349,000, Lymm North and Thelwall £345,000, Great Sankey North and Whittle Hall £300,000, Westbrook £293,500, Chapelford and Old Hall £292,250, Rixton and Woolston £287,250, Burtonwood and Winwick £276,500, Penketh and Cuerdley £272,000, Poulton South £248,500, Poulton North £233,000, Great Sankey South £208,000, Birchwood £207,000, Latchford West £190,000, Latchford East £177,500, Poplars and Hulme £171,750, Orford £171,000, Bewsey and Whitecross £150,000 and Fairfield and Howley lowest at £140,000. The borough median is £250,000. The outer villages cost three times what the inner town does Median price of completed home sales by Warrington ward, 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. Wards with at least 60 sales. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid data. Borough median £250,000 Appleton£450,000 (133) Grappenhall£432,500 (120) Lymm South£415,000 (91) Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft£380,000 (137) Stockton Heath£349,000 (108) Lymm North and Thelwall£345,000 (175) Gt Sankey North and Whittle Hall£300,000 (155) Westbrook£293,500 (62) Chapelford and Old Hall£292,250 (134) Rixton and Woolston£287,250 (104) Burtonwood and Winwick£276,500 (78) Penketh and Cuerdley£272,000 (120) Poulton South£248,500 (88) Poulton North£233,000 (127) Great Sankey South£208,000 (133) Birchwood£207,000 (110) Latchford West£190,000 (129) Latchford East£177,500 (112) Poplars and Hulme£171,750 (88) Orford£171,000 (118) Bewsey and Whitecross£150,000 (163) Fairfield and Howley£140,000 (176) Sale counts in brackets. 2,661 home sales in Warrington borough in the twelve months. Bars darker than the dashed line sold above the borough median.
Every ward above the borough median is either a parished village or a newer estate on the edge. Every ward below it, bar Birchwood and the Poultons, is in the old town.

Read down that chart and the geography is obvious. The top of it is the ring of parished villages: Appleton, Grappenhall, Lymm, Culcheth, Stockton Heath. The bottom is the unparished inner town, the Victorian and inter-war streets of Fairfield and Howley, Bewsey and Whitecross, Orford and the two Latchfords. Taken together, those unparished wards have a median of £165,000 across 821 sales, which is £85,000 below the borough figure and £285,000 below Appleton.

Nothing between those two extremes is a surprise. Great Sankey splits neatly in half, with its northern and Whittle Hall side at £300,000 and its southern side at £208,000. Birchwood, the 1970s new-town district, comes in at £207,000 with almost no detached stock trading.

Warrington by property type

Across the borough, these are the medians for the same twelve months:

  • Detached: £425,000 (640 sales). Concentrated in Appleton, Lymm, Culcheth and Grappenhall. A detached house in Appleton has a median of £625,000; in Lymm, £595,000.
  • Semi-detached: £260,000 (1,027 sales). The most-traded type in Warrington by a distance, and the honest answer to “what does a Warrington house cost”.
  • Terraced: £180,000 (715 sales). The inner-town figure is lower still, £157,500 in the unparished area.
  • Flats and maisonettes: £130,000 (279 sales). The cheapest entry point anywhere in the borough.

The flat figure is worth pausing on. At £130,000 borough-wide and £118,500 in the inner town, Warrington flats are cheaper than terraced houses in half the wards on the chart, and cheaper than the North West average home by a wide margin.

Where the council-wide figure comes from

Search for house prices here and you will be shown £254,000, the average for Warrington in May 2026, up 4.3% on the year, from the UK House Price Index. That is a genuinely useful number, because Warrington is a unitary authority whose boundary is the borough, so unlike two-tier areas the council figure is not diluted by a neighbouring town. It sits close to our £250,000 sale-by-sale median, which is what you would expect.

On that index, detached homes average £435,000, semis £264,000 (up 5.2% on the year), terraces £203,000 and flats £133,000, with flats flat on the year. First-time buyers paid an average of £212,000, up 4.7%, against £306,000 for home movers.

Which way prices are moving

Warrington’s 4.3% annual rise trails the North West as a whole, which managed 5.8%. In level terms the borough sits between the two obvious comparators: above the North West average of £220,000, below the England average of £271,000.

That combination, rising more slowly than the region from a mid-table starting point, is roughly what you would expect of a market that had its sharp readjustment earlier. The growth is also concentrated in family housing rather than flats, which is the pattern in the type figures above.

If you are buying here

Three practical things follow from the numbers.

Pick the ward before the house. Latchford West and Grappenhall are adjoining wards, and £242,500 apart on the median. Most of what people mean by “Warrington prices” is really a statement about which side of the Ship Canal or the Mersey they are looking at.

Check the bridges. More than in most towns of this size, where you live determines how you get out. The Manchester Ship Canal swing bridges and the Mersey crossings shape every commute; our roadworks and travel page sets out which routes carry the town.

Look at what is being built. The borough has permission for far more housing than it has delivered, and the government has raised its annual requirement by 28% from December 2028. What that means for supply is on the planning news page.

How to read these numbers carefully

  • Ward, not postcode district. Of the 3,168 sales in the six postcode districts we pulled, 395 were not in Warrington borough at all: 355 in Wigan (WA3 covers Golborne and Lowton), 25 in Halton, 11 in Cheshire West and Chester and 3 in Trafford. A raw postcode-district table counts every one of them as local. WA12 was left out entirely, because it is mostly Newton-le-Willows on the St Helens side.
  • Small wards are excluded. The chart only shows wards with at least 60 sales, so a single unusual house cannot move a bar.
  • Outliers are real but useless. The largest transaction in this data was £26,329,500, recorded against a Woolston address and classified as “detached”. It is plainly a portfolio or block transfer, not a house. It is one reason the borough mean, £303,101, sits £53,000 above the median. Use the median.
  • Commercial sales are excluded. Only detached, semi-detached, terraced and flat or maisonette transactions are counted, which removes the £23.65 million “other” sale recorded in Burtonwood and Westbrook.
  • The last two months are under-counted. Sales take weeks to reach the register, so the most recent window always looks thinner than it will.

Where these figures come from

Sale-by-sale prices are HM Land Registry Price Paid records for the twelve months to 30 June 2026, covering the WA1 to WA5 and WA13 postcode districts, with every full postcode matched to a borough, ward and parish through the postcodes.io lookup. Of 3,168 sales, 3,167 matched on the first pass. The borough-level averages and annual changes are from the UK House Price Index for Warrington, area code E06000007, latest month May 2026.

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