House price to workplace-based earnings ratio, England and Wales
Official statistics
The ONS's ratio of the median house price to the median gross annual earnings of people working in England and Wales, in England and in Wales, each year since 1997.
England and Wales
7.55
2025
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC- England and Wales
- England
- Wales
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
29 periods, newest first
| Period | England and Wales | England | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.55 | 7.63 | 5.95 |
| 2024 | 7.74 | 7.84 | 6.13 |
| 2023 | 8.28 | 8.45 | 6.24 |
| 2022 | 8.45 | 8.56 | 6.43 |
| 2021 | 8.95 | 9.06 | 6.57 |
| 2020 | 7.82 | 7.86 | 5.88 |
| 2019 | 7.73 | 7.88 | 5.83 |
| 2018 | 7.85 | 8.04 | 5.92 |
| 2017 | 7.77 | 7.91 | 5.76 |
| 2016 | 7.59 | 7.72 | 5.82 |
| 2015 | 7.37 | 7.54 | 5.74 |
| 2014 | 6.95 | 7.09 | 5.64 |
| 2013 | 6.74 | 6.76 | 5.54 |
| 2012 | 6.76 | 6.77 | 5.63 |
| 2011 | 6.74 | 6.80 | 5.60 |
| 2010 | 6.85 | 6.85 | 5.82 |
| 2009 | 6.35 | 6.40 | 5.70 |
| 2008 | 6.90 | 6.97 | 6.32 |
| 2007 | 7.17 | 7.15 | 6.59 |
| 2006 | 6.96 | 6.95 | 6.25 |
| 2005 | 6.74 | 6.79 | 6.01 |
| 2004 | 6.53 | 6.60 | 5.43 |
| 2003 | 5.85 | 5.93 | 4.31 |
| 2002 | 5.06 | 5.12 | 3.71 |
| 2001 | 4.42 | 4.50 | 3.33 |
| 2000 | 4.13 | 4.19 | 3.26 |
| 1999 | 3.89 | 3.96 | 3.16 |
| 1998 | 3.66 | 3.67 | 3.04 |
| 1997 | 3.55 | 3.54 | 3.00 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/ratioofhousepricetoworkplacebasedearningslowerquartileandmedian
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:09 UTC
- Raw files fetched
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Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC; 87 of 87 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:09:58Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 87 of 87 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 87 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 87 of 87 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | ONS edition is current | the current edition counts at 2025-09-30, 404 days before retrieval (limit 549) |
| Pass | The ratio is the median price over median earnings | 87 of 87 ratios equal Table 1a's median price over Table 1b's median earnings, rounded half up to two places |
| Pass | No contact left in the stored files | 3 stored files searched for mailboxes, telephones, contact links and people's names, and 6 parts with a contact or licence word, each a reviewed one |
| Pass | The publisher's pinned sentences stand | 2 of 2 pinned sentences found |
| Pass | The publisher's terms are the reviewed ones | 9 passages on licence, copyright, reuse or a restriction across 3 stored files, each the OGL's own or a reviewed one |
| Pass | Two readings of table.xlsx agree | 496 cells of table.xlsx read alike by `sheets` and by its own parse of the package XML |
| Pass | Within its release clocks | on 2026-11-08: next release 2027-03-31 (Next release: March 2027), held from 2027-04-08; newest period ended 2025-09-30, held from 2027-04-03 |
| Pass | The edition read is the newest the ONS lists | 'current', released on 26 March 2026, and no dated edition listed after it |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/ratioofhousepricetoworkplacebasedearningslowerquartileandmedian – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- The ONS's ratio: the median price of homes sold in the year to September over the median gross annual earnings of full-time employees working in each area that April. A higher ratio means homes cost more years of local earnings.
- Each year's ratio is the median price of homes sold in the year to September over that April's median earnings. The ONS revises the ratios each year as house prices and earnings are revised.
- England and Wales's newest ratio is also the headline of the hub's ratio by council, which comes from the same workbook.