About £260,000 for the typical house, which in this corner of Wiltshire buys you an actual house rather than the idea of one. A flat here runs to roughly half that. The market is busy enough that you are choosing rather than waiting. Council tax lands in the lower bands. Westbury is one of the few places within reach of Bath where the arithmetic still works out in the buyer's favour.
The Land Registry recorded 243 sales in the year to May 2026, with the median landing at £260,000. Split by type, the ladder is unusually clear: flats at about £123,000, terraced houses at around £227,000, semi-detached at £265,000 and detached at £348,000. That is a genuine spread rather than the compressed one you get in towns where everything has been converted into the same thing. It also means the gap between a terrace and a detached is a real move rather than a fantasy one.
The published house price index for the area put the average at £327,000 as of May 2026, up 1.6% over twelve months. That is a small change and worth calling small: the market has not done anything dramatic in either direction. Flats went the other way over the same period, down 1.8%. Both numbers are what the index recorded, not what anyone expects next.
Council tax sits low. Band B is the most common, and around 43% of dwellings fall into bands A or B. The band D annual bill comes to roughly £2,570, which is the figure worth holding against whatever you are paying now.
Renting is measured across the whole Wiltshire authority rather than Westbury itself, so treat it as an area typical. The mean private rent from the Office for National Statistics index is about £1,060 a month as of April 2026. By bedroom count, one-bed properties average around £730, two-beds around £950, three-beds around £1,190 and four-or-more beds around £1,710. Those are means from the index rather than a median of what is currently advertised, and they cover the county rather than this town.
Set against local earnings, the sums are more forgiving than most of the south west manages. Modelled gross household income for the area, before tax, ran to roughly £58,600 for the financial year to March 2023. A £260,000 median against that is a stretch of the ordinary kind rather than the kind that requires two incomes, a guarantor and a long conversation with a parent. It is dated income for a specific year, not today's, but the relationship it describes is the one that has made Westbury quietly attractive to people priced out of Bath.
Price per square metre comes to about £3,300 across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is roughly 86% of them. The typical matched property measured around 81 square metres. That is a mid-terrace-to-small-semi footprint, and it is what the median price is actually buying.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 census explains why the market moves the way it does. Around 40% of homes have three bedrooms, 29% have two, 23% have four or more and 8% have one. Westbury is built for families and for people who wanted the spare room, which is exactly the search most buyers are running.
Value for money is the strongest thing this town has going for it. You get a house, a garden and a functioning railway junction for a price that would not clear the deposit conversation in half the places within an hour of here.