A typical house in Meopham costs close to half a million pounds, and that's for an ordinary one. Detached homes go well past it. Semis come in a little under. Terraces are cheaper but so rare that they barely count as a market. The village is priced for people buying their second or third house.
The Land Registry recorded 52 sales in the year to April 2026, and the median price was about £488,000. Detached houses fetched around £675,000 across 21 sales, semi-detached houses about £448,000 across 24, and the five terraced houses that sold went for about £362,000. With only 52 sales a year, a handful of big detached houses can move the median a long way. Look up recent sold prices on your own road in the Land Registry records, and don't rely on the village figure. The price of a semi on the main road and the price of a detached house near Meopham Green have very little to do with each other.
The official house price index for the wider area rose about 0.9% in the twelve months to May 2026, so prices barely moved. Its average price for the area is about £341,000, well below Meopham's own median. Flats across the index area fell about 3% over the same year. Meopham has so few flats that the fall mostly happened to someone else.
Band E is the most common council tax band in Meopham, and only about 8% of homes are in bands A and B. A band D home in the borough pays about £2,408 a year. The most common Meopham home is one band above that, so the typical bill here is higher again.
Across Gravesham, the typical private rent is about £1,320 a month as of April 2026. That figure is an average from the Office for National Statistics rental index for the whole borough, not a median of local listings. By size, a one-bedroom place in the borough averages about £900 a month, two bedrooms about £1,190, three about £1,450 and four or more about £2,070. No figure is published for studios or single rooms.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income across the area, before tax, at about £65,000 for the financial year to March 2023. That's a healthy income, and it still covers only a small part of a typical Meopham price. A buyer relying on salary alone is looking at a big deposit just to reach the semis. Detached houses take money that most households here would have to bring from a previous sale.
Of the sales that could be matched to a floor area on an energy certificate, about 77% of the total, the median price was about £4,890 per square metre, and the typical home behind that figure measured 94 square metres. That's a normal-sized family house at a high price per metre, so most of the money is paying for where the house is.
The 2021 census puts about 42% of Meopham homes at three bedrooms and 36% at four or more. Two-bedroom homes make up about 17%, and one-bedroom homes about 5%. Anyone downsizing in search of something small will find a village built mostly for families who need the extra rooms.
Houses in Meopham are expensive for what they are, and there are too few cheaper homes to give buyers a real way in. A first purchase rarely adds up here. A second one sometimes does.