Around £380,000 is the going rate, and most of what it buys is single storey. Detached houses carry the top of the market. Flats go for less than half what a detached costs, and there are hardly any of them. Fewer than 150 homes changed hands in the whole village across a year. Nothing here is cheap and nothing here is dramatic, which is broadly the West Moors position on everything.
The Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026 put the median West Moors sale at £380,000 across 148 transactions. Detached houses accounted for 87 of those and ran to a median of £435,000, which tells you what the market here mostly is. Semi-detached sold at a median of £345,000 across 27 sales, terraced at £295,000 across 14, and flats at £175,000 across 20. That flat figure is the door into the village for anyone who cannot reach the detached number, and 20 sales a year is not a door that stays open long.
On direction, the published house price index for the area stood at an average of about £326,000 as of May 2026, up around 1% over the preceding twelve months. Flats went the other way, down around 2% over the same period. Both movements are small enough that anyone building a plan around them is inventing precision that is not there.
Council tax sits mostly in band D, the modal band for the village, with around 24% of dwellings in the two cheapest bands. A band D bill runs to roughly £2,765 a year, which is the number worth holding against whatever you currently pay before deciding the mortgage is the only monthly figure that changed.
For renting, the typical private rent across the Dorset area is about £1,040 a month. That is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index covering the whole local authority, not a median of what is advertised in West Moors, so treat it as the shape of the wider market. By size across that same area, one-bedroom homes average around £720 a month, two-bedrooms around £950, three-bedrooms around £1,170, and four or more around £1,660.
Against local earnings, the picture is honest rather than comfortable. Modelled household income for the area was around £47,210 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Set that beside a £380,000 median and the sums only work for buyers arriving with equity from somewhere else, or with two incomes and a long view. West Moors is not a first rung. It is the rung after the one where you sold something.
Per square metre, the median works out at roughly £4,520 across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is around 89% of them. The typical matched home behind that figure had about 84 square metres of floor space. That is a modest footprint for the money, and it is the plot, the garage and the garden doing the work rather than the interior.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 Census explains why. Around 39% of households have two bedrooms and around 37% have three, so three quarters of the village sits in that narrow middle. Around 18% have four or more, and only about 7% have one. Anyone hunting a one-bedroom home here is competing for a very small pool against everyone else who worked out that a bungalow with a spare room costs more.
Value in West Moors comes out a shade better than middling. You are paying a genuine premium over the cheapest corners of the county for space, quiet and a driveway, but not the premium that the prettier or better connected parts of Dorset extract for the same square metres. Fair, in other words, which is not the same as generous.