About £325,000 buys the middle of the market here. Detached houses run to nearly £380,000. Terraces go for a little over £180,000. Very few houses change hands either way. Beaworthy is not cheap, it is cheap for the square footage, and those are two different products.
The Land Registry recorded 47 sales across the Beaworthy area in the year to April 2026, at a median of £325,000. Detached accounted for 27 of them at a median of about £380,000. Semis and terraces managed nine sales apiece, at roughly £283,000 and £181,000. Forty-seven sales in twelve months across an area this size is not a market so much as a queue, and it means the house you want may simply not come up in the year you are looking.
The published house price index tells a quieter story about the same ground, putting the average at about £257,000 as of May 2026, down a tenth of a percent over twelve months. That is a published change rather than a forecast, and a tenth of a percent is a rounding error dressed up as news. Flats were the exception, down about 4% over the same twelve months on an average of roughly £131,000. Across five years the index is up about 7%. The index average and the Land Registry median measure different things, which is why they disagree and why quoting one at a seller who has read the other gets you nowhere.
Council tax lands mostly in band D, the commonest band in the area, with about 32% of dwellings sitting in bands A and B. A band D bill here runs to about £2,600 a year, which is the figure worth holding next to your current one before the mortgage arithmetic even starts.
Renting is the shallow end. Typical private rent across the Torridge area was about £790 a month as of April 2026, a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index rather than a median of what is advertised, and it covers the whole district rather than Beaworthy specifically. By size, that breaks down to about £560 for a one bed, £740 for a two bed, £905 for a three bed and about £1,270 for four bedrooms or more.
Modelled gross household income across the area came to about £45,700 in the financial year to March 2023, before tax and before anything else. Set that against a median sale of £325,000 and the shape of local buying becomes clear: straightforward if you are arriving with equity from somewhere more expensive, genuinely hard if your deposit and your salary both come from here. The people selling detached houses at £380,000 are mostly not selling them to the people who grew up down the lane.
Measured by floor area, the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate came in at about £3,110 per square metre, on a typical matched home of around 84 square metres. That covers roughly 55% of sales, so treat it as the shape of the market rather than the whole of it.
The bedroom mix explains what the search filters do. Census 2021 puts about 41% of households in three-bedroom homes and about 36% in four or more, with 19% at two bedrooms and only about 4% at one. Tick the one-bedroom box and the map empties. Anyone downsizing locally is competing for a very small pool against everyone else with the same idea.
Costs here sit squarely in the middle: not the bargain that the emptiness of the roads implies, not the punishment a postcode nearer the water would hand you. You are paying for space and paying in distance, and on that trade the price is honest.