Houses in Worplesdon typically sell for about three-quarters of a million pounds. The detached ones sell for well over a million. Hardly anything comes up for sale. Flats are close to extinct. The quiet life here has one comma too many for most budgets.
In the Land Registry's twelve months to the end of April 2026, the median sale price was £750,000, from 15 sales. Nine of those were detached houses, with a median of about £1,470,000. Four were semis, with a median of about £620,000. With that few sales, a single big house can move the median by a lot. There's also no reliable line for terraces or flats, because not enough of them changed hands to count. Supply is thin, and 15 sales in a year shows it.
The published house price index for the wider area gives a different picture from those sales. In the year to May 2026 it fell about 6%, to an average of about £522,000. Flats in the same index fell about 8%, to about £266,000, and terraced houses averaged about £421,000. That drop is real, not a rounding error, and it's recorded for the index area, not for Worplesdon's own handful of sales. A soft market doesn't turn a £1,470,000 detached house into a bargain. It does give a buyer with patience a bit more room to negotiate.
Council tax matches the housing. Band D is the most common band, and only about 6% of homes are in bands A and B. A Band D bill here comes to about £2,550 a year, which is the number to set against whatever you pay now. The cheap bands exist, much like the parish's bus timetable: a real document, rarely needed.
Renters get a figure for the whole borough, not for the parish. The typical private rent across the Guildford area was about £1,720 a month as of April 2026, up about 6% on a year earlier. That's a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of advertised listings. By size, it comes to about £1,170 a month for a one-bed, £1,520 for a two-bed, £1,840 for a three-bed and £2,510 for four or more bedrooms. The borough average leans on Guildford's town-centre flats, and Worplesdon has few of those to add.
Against incomes, the prices are a stretch unless you already own a house. The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £80,000 for the financial year to March 2023, and about £55,000 after tax. Those are good incomes, and they still aren't what pays for a £750,000 house. The buyers who get in are mostly selling a house of their own, not relying on a salary to raise the deposit.
The bedroom mix explains the prices. In the 2021 Census, about 48% of homes had four or more bedrooms, 26% had three, 20% had two and 6% had one. So nearly half the parish is big family houses, and one-bed homes are about as rare as a Worplesdon listing without a photo of the garden. Anyone looking for a small first home will find very few of them here.
On price, Worplesdon is poor value for anyone who isn't already bringing a lot of equity. The house comes with a common next door, and the common is included in the price.