Houses in Larkhill cost around £245,000, which is the cheerful headline and the short version. The awkward part is how few sales that figure rests on. Two homes changed hands. Most of the place rents rather than buys, so property comes up rarely and goes quietly. Affordable, then, but not a market you can browse.
That £245,000 is the median across Land Registry records for the twelve months to July 2023, and the number of transactions behind it is two. There is no split by property type, for the obvious reason that two sales do not divide into detached, semi and terrace in any way worth printing. Treat the figure as a marker of what this housing is worth rather than as a valuation of anything specific, because a buyer here is negotiating against whatever happens to be available that month, not against a queue of comparables.
The published house price index for the area recorded a rise of about 2% in the year to May 2026, which is a small movement and should be read as one. Flats went the other way over the same period, down about 2%. Across five years the index is up about 15%. Nothing in those numbers is dramatic, and anyone hoping for a story in them is going to be disappointed.
Council tax lands cheaply. Band C is the most common band here, about 38% of dwellings sit in bands A or B, and a band D bill in this area runs to roughly £2,570 a year. For housing that is mostly three bedrooms with a garden, that is the sort of banding usually attached to something considerably smaller.
Renting is the default arrangement, and the honest figure available covers the wider area rather than the village itself. Typical private rent across the Wiltshire area is about £1,060 a month, up around 7% over the year to April 2026. That is an average from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not a median of what is currently advertised, so treat it as the middle of a broad range. By size across Wiltshire, a one-bedroom home averages about £730 a month, two bedrooms about £950, three bedrooms about £1,190, and four or more about £1,710. Three bedrooms is the number that matters most here, because three bedrooms is what most of the housing is.
On affordability, the arithmetic is unusually kind. Modelled median household income for this area was about £70,000 gross before tax in the financial year to March 2023, or roughly £49,500 once tax comes out. Set that beside a £245,000 house and the price is not the thing standing between a buyer and a front door. Supply is. The money works; the shortlist is the problem.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 Census explains why. About 54% of homes have three bedrooms and about 22% have four or more, leaving roughly 18% at two bedrooms and about 6% at one. Anyone searching for a small flat is searching the wrong postcode, and anyone searching for a family house is searching the right one and joining a very short queue.
For cost alone, Larkhill is one of the strongest places on this side of the county to be a buyer, with cheap banding, modest prices and incomes that comfortably carry them. The catch is not the price tag. It is that so little of it ever reaches the open market.