About £272,000 for a typical house, which in Devon terms is not a headline anybody writes a colour supplement about. The detached homes cost well over twice what the terraces do. Not many change hands in a given year. The band most homes sit in for council tax is near the bottom of the scale. This is a village where the average is a fiction and the type of house you want decides everything.
Take the split properly. In the year to April 2026, the Land Registry recorded 30 sales in Uffculme with a median of around £272,000. Detached homes accounted for 17 of those and came in at a median of roughly £405,000. Terraces made up 10 sales at about £173,000. Thirty transactions is a small enough pool that a handful of unusual houses shift the middle, so the type-level figures tell you more than the headline does. If you are shopping for a terrace and reading £272,000 as your entry price, you are reading someone else's house.
For direction, the Land Registry's house price index for the area put the average at about £286,000 as of May 2026, down roughly 2% over twelve months and up around 13% over five years. Flats fared worse over the year at roughly 6% down. These are published changes for the index area over those periods, not a forecast, and a couple of percent in a year is the kind of movement that disappears into the cost of moving.
Council tax is the quiet good news. Band B is the most common banding here and about 39% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. The band D annual bill runs at roughly £2,660, which is the figure worth holding against whatever you currently pay, though most of Uffculme is banded below it.
Renting is harder to pin to the village itself. Typical private rent across the Mid Devon area is about £870 a month, a mean from the Office for National Statistics price index rather than a median of advertised listings. By size, the area averages come in at around £640 a month for a one-bedroom, £800 for two, £990 for three and about £1,450 for four or more. Uffculme is one village within that area, so treat those as the shape of the local market rather than the asking price on any particular cottage.
On affordability, gross household income across the area was modelled at about £55,000 a year for the financial year to March 2023, which is where the arithmetic starts to bite. Against a typical sale near £272,000 that is manageable for a household buying a terrace or a semi. Against £405,000 for a detached house, it is a stretch that assumes either a considerable deposit or a second earner on a good salary. The income figure is before tax and describes 2022 to 2023, not today, so it is a reference point rather than a live number.
Measured by floor space, the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate come out at a median of about £3,280 per square metre, on a typical floor area of around 92 square metres. That covers roughly 80% of the sales, so it is the median of what can be measured rather than of everything sold. It is useful for comparing one house against another and useless for pricing a hypothetical one.
The stock is family-sized. Roughly 32% of households have three bedrooms and 31% have two, with about 25% at four or more and 12% at one, on the 2021 census count. Very little of Uffculme is built for people living alone in a small flat, which is part of why the terraces at the bottom of the market move as briskly as they do.
For what you get in space and setting, the pricing here is one of Uffculme's better arguments. The catch is that the cheap half and the expensive half are effectively two different villages, and you pick which one you are buying into before you pick a street.