About £241,000 buys the typical house in Delabole, which is a Cornish price with the Cornwall premium taken off. Detached homes go for around £330,000. Terraced ones for under £200,000. Most of the village pays council tax in the cheapest band on the list. The sea is a short drive away and the asking prices behave as though it is not there at all.
The Land Registry counted 18 sales in the year to April 2026, with the median landing at roughly £241,000. Seven of those were detached, at a median of around £330,000. Four were semi-detached at about £256,000. Six were terraced at around £188,000. Eighteen sales across twelve months is not a market so much as a slow queue, and the practical consequence for a buyer is that you wait for the right house rather than choose between three of them.
The published house price index for the area put the average at about £280,000 as of May 2026, up around 4% across the previous twelve months and around 11% over five years. Flats went nowhere over the same year, ending fractionally lower than they started. That is a slow, unremarkable upward drift in houses and a flat line in flats, which is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up as momentum.
Council tax is where the village genuinely undercuts most of England. Band A is the most common band, and roughly 49% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. The annual bill in band A works out at about £1,730, and band D, the figure most people can hold against their own bill at home, comes in at around £2,590 a year.
Renting is measured across a much wider area than the village. The typical private rent across the Cornwall area is about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, and that is a mean from the national rent index rather than a median of advertised listings, so treat it as an area average that includes places nothing like Delabole. By size, the same index puts a one-bedroom at about £690 a month, a two-bedroom at about £880, a three-bedroom at about £1,080, and four or more bedrooms at about £1,510.
Against local earnings, the picture is tighter than the headline price suggests. Modelled gross household income for the financial year to March 2023 came in at about £41,000 before tax, with roughly £34,000 of that landing as net income. A median house at £241,000 is not a casual purchase on those numbers, and the usual routes in are two incomes, existing equity, or money that was made somewhere more expensive. Cheap relative to Cornwall is not the same as cheap relative to what people here earn.
Measured by floor space, the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, roughly 72% of them, came out at a median of about £2,280 per square metre, on a typical matched home of around 93 square metres. That is a genuinely useful number for anyone comparing a small modern box against a large draughty one, though it rests on 13 matched sales rather than the full set.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 Census explains what most of that money is actually buying. Around 40% of homes have three bedrooms and about 33% have two, which together account for the bulk of the village. Roughly 15% have four or more, and about 12% have one. This is family-sized stock in a place with an older population, which is a mismatch worth noticing before you assume a three-bedroom will come up whenever you want one.
On cost, Delabole is one of the more persuasive places in the county. You get a proper house rather than a compromise, in a band A council tax village, at a price the coastal postcodes stopped offering a long time ago. The catch is that the village trades in whole houses and does not sell them often.