About £350,000 buys the typical Crawley home. Terraces go for a shade under that. Flats go for well under it. A detached house costs close to double what a flat does, and the privacy is what you're paying for. Crawley isn't cheap, but it keeps its prices honest.
The Land Registry recorded 910 sales in the year to May 2026, with a median of about £350,000. Split by type, flats sold for around £216,000 across 190 sales, terraces for £345,000 across 412, semis for £407,000 across 207, and detached houses for £595,000 across 101. The terrace is the town's default purchase, and the price list makes the reason plain: it is the cheapest way into a house with its own front door and a garden. Going up to a semi costs you a shared wall's worth of extra money, and the estate agent will call that "space" and hope you don't ask any more.
The house price index for the area put the average at about £334,000 as of May 2026, up 1.5% on a year earlier. That is a small rise, and anyone describing it as a boom is selling something. Flats went the other way, with the flat index down 1.5% over the same twelve months. Houses edged up while flats slipped, which is what the market thinks of a one-bed within earshot of Gatwick.
Council tax lands most often in band C, and about 19% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs to about £2,418 a year, which is the number to hold against whatever you pay now. The cheap bands are thin on the ground here, so a starter home rarely comes with a starter bill.
Renting across the Crawley borough typically costs about £1,480 a month as of April 2026. That is a borough-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not an average of advertised listings, and it covers every street from the town centre to the outer estates. By size, one-beds average about £1,060 a month, two-beds £1,380, three-beds £1,630 and four-beds or larger £2,250. The step from two bedrooms to three is smaller than the step from three to four, so the landlord's premium lands on the family that needs the extra room most.
Median gross household income, before tax, was about £60,000 in the financial year to March 2023, a modelled figure rather than a current one. Set against a £345,000 terrace, a two-earner household on that income is in range without it being comfortable, and the deposit is the part of the sum that bites. Crawley is within reach of the people who work in it, which is more than most of the south-east can claim for its own workforce.
Among the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which covers about 87% of them, the median price was about £4,490 a square metre. The typical home behind that figure measures about 81 square metres. That is a family-sized post-war house, not a sprawling one, and the floor plan will have been drawn by someone who thought of a utility room as a luxury.
The Census 2021 bedroom mix explains who the town was built for. About 45% of homes have three bedrooms, 24% have two, 17% have four or more and 14% have one. The planners built for a couple with two children and a family car, and the housing still assumes that household is who turns up for the viewing.
Houses in Crawley cost less than much of the south-east charges for the same three bedrooms, and the typical family house is still within reach of a local income. It's one of the town's better features, even if the terraces won't be winning any beauty contests.