Least and most affordable places in West Midlands to buy a home (2025)

Malvern Hills was the least affordable of West Midlands’s 30 councils in 2025 (house price to pay 9.9×).

Stoke-on-Trent was the most affordable (4.6×). The middle council, Stafford, had 6.6×.

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Compare the two figures
House price to pay for every council in West Midlands, highest first. Councils without a figure are listed last with the reason.
RankCouncilValue
1Malvern Hills

ONS says to use this figure with caution because its sampling error is large (coefficient of variation over 10%).

9.9×
2Stratford-on-Avon9.6×
3Wychavon8.9×
4Herefordshire8.4×
5Lichfield8.1×
6South Staffordshire8.0×
7Bromsgrove7.8×
8Warwick7.6×
9Shropshire7.5×
10Solihull7.1×
11Redditch7.0×
=12North Warwickshire6.7×
=12Wyre Forest6.7×
=14Dudley6.6×
=14Stafford6.6×
=14Worcester6.6×
17Birmingham6.5×
=18Cannock Chase6.4×
=18Nuneaton and Bedworth6.4×
=18Walsall6.4×
21Sandwell6.3×
=22East Staffordshire6.2×
=22Telford and Wrekin6.2×
24Tamworth6.1×
=25Coventry6.0×
=25Wolverhampton6.0×
=27Rugby5.9×
=27Staffordshire Moorlands5.9×
29Newcastle-under-Lyme5.8×
30Stoke-on-Trent4.6×

Worked out by Open Index from the UK House Price Index and the ONS earnings survey. Source and method · See it on the map