The typical house in Yarnton sells for about £380,000. Semis set the price, because semis are most of what sells. A terrace comes cheaper, when one appears. A detached house costs the best part of £450,000. In practice, the price of Yarnton is the price of a three-bed semi with a drive.
The Land Registry recorded 29 sales in Yarnton in the year to April 2026, at a median of about £380,000. Semi-detached houses made up 17 of those, with a median of £381,000, almost exactly the village figure. Six detached houses went for a median of £447,500, and five terraces for £318,500. With a sample this small, a couple of big detached sales can move the headline more than any shift in the market. Pull the Land Registry record for the street you are actually looking at, because a village with 29 sales a year is really a set of individual streets.
The house price index for the wider area rose about 4% in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £358,000. Flats rose by under 1% over the same year. Neither figure is dramatic. Owners of houses gained a little more than owners of flats, and both are a long way from a boom.
Band D is the most common council tax band in Yarnton, and only about 9% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill in Cherwell is about £2,580 a year. The cheap end of the council tax list barely exists here, so most buyers are paying for a band D semi before the first meter reading.
Cherwell's typical private rent was about £1,290 a month in April 2026, a mean from the Office for National Statistics index that covers the whole district. By bedroom, the district averages are about £960 a month for a one-bed, £1,200 for a two-bed, £1,450 for a three-bed and £2,180 for four or more. Rents across Cherwell rose about 3% over the year. No studio or room figures are published. Anyone hoping a single room would be the budget way into Yarnton has also run into the fact that one-bed homes are rare here.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £59,000 for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the wider local area. Set beside a £380,000 typical sale, that income gets a two-earner household through the door with a decent deposit and a long mortgage. A single buyer on an average wage will find the terraces are where the conversation starts, and with five sold in a year, also where it gets awkward.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 93% of the total, the median price works out at about £4,420 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure has about 84 square metres of floor space. That is a family house of ordinary size at an ordinary Oxfordshire-fringe rate, and nothing in it is built for show.
At the 2021 census, about 41% of Yarnton households had three bedrooms, 30% had four or more, 22% had two and 7% had one. The village was built for families with a car on the drive, and the bedroom count still says so. Downsizers looking for a one-bed are shopping in a very short aisle.
Yarnton is reasonably priced for what it is, a little better than middling. Family houses at a sane price within reach of Oxford is the deal, and the shortage of small, cheap homes is the cost.