The average Worthing home sold for £296,227 in June 2026, down 5.1% in a year and the cheapest in West Sussex. Prices by type, and the median in all 13 wards.
The average home in Worthing sold for £296,227 in June 2026, down 5.1% on a year earlier. That is the largest fall of any district in Sussex, and it leaves Worthing the cheapest place to buy in West Sussex. Asking prices in agents’ windows are hopes; the figures on this page are what homes actually changed hands for, recorded by HM Land Registry as each sale completes and published in the UK House Price Index. Below that, we have gone back to the raw sale records to work out the median price in every one of Worthing’s 13 wards, which no index publishes.
The headline figure
£296,227 is the provisional June 2026 average for Worthing borough: the town plus Goring-by-Sea, Durrington, Broadwater, Tarring, Salvington, High Salvington and Findon Valley. Three things stand out.
- Prices fell 5.1% over the twelve months to June 2026, against a rise of 1.8% in England as a whole. The month itself fell a further 0.9%, the sixth monthly fall in a row this year.
- Worthing is now the cheapest district in West Sussex, £76,000 below the county average of £372,660 and £84,000 below the South East average of £380,380. It sits barely £3,000 above the England average of £293,262.
- Flats are doing the falling. Worthing has an unusually large flat market, and flats are down 6.5% on the year, the steepest drop of the four property types.
UKHPI figures are provisional and get revised as late-registered sales arrive, so treat the exact pounds as an estimate that will settle over the coming months.
What you pay by property type
June 2026 averages for Worthing from the UK House Price Index, with the change over the year:
- Detached houses: £592,121, down 5.3% on the year. Concentrated in Offington, High Salvington and the roads climbing towards the Downs.
- Semi-detached houses: £408,869, down 3.9%, the mildest fall of the four.
- Terraced houses: £324,454, down 4.0%. The workhorse of the town, from the streets behind Montague Street to Broadwater and Tarring.
- Flats and maisonettes: £180,145, down 6.5% and the weakest corner of the market by a distance. Worthing’s seafront and town-centre flat stock is large, much of it retirement and converted flats, and soft demand shows up there first.
A first-time buyer in Worthing paid an average of £243,736 in June 2026, down 5.1% on the year. A home mover, someone selling one home to buy another, paid £368,795. The £125,000 gap between those two figures is the size of the step from a first flat to a family house here.
The median in every Worthing ward
Averages hide the spread, and Worthing’s spread is wide. We pulled every Land Registry Price Paid record in the BN11 to BN14 postcode districts for the year to 30 June 2026, looked each postcode up to confirm which council area it falls in, and took the median of the 1,448 sales inside Worthing borough. The borough-wide median was £332,500.
| Ward | Median sale | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Offington | £495,000 | 90 |
| Goring | £455,000 | 106 |
| Salvington | £415,000 | 106 |
| Gaisford | £375,000 | 103 |
| Durrington | £340,000 | 83 |
| Tarring | £339,750 | 106 |
| Marine | £337,500 | 132 |
| Broadwater | £335,000 | 99 |
| Selden | £330,000 | 115 |
| Northbrook | £322,500 | 95 |
| Castle | £316,000 | 108 |
| Central | £230,000 | 173 |
| Heene | £228,750 | 132 |
The pattern is a north-south one. Offington, Salvington and Goring, the wards under the Downs and out towards the Goring Gap, carry the premium because they are where the houses with gardens are. Central and Heene sit at half Offington’s level, at £230,000 and £228,750, because both are dominated by flats: they also recorded the most sales of any ward, 173 and 132, which is what a churning flat market looks like.
Two notes on reading this table. A ward median is the midpoint of the sales that happened, not a valuation of an average home, so a ward that sold mostly flats will look cheap even if its houses are not. And the borough median of £332,500 sits above the £296,227 UKHPI average because the two measure different things: the index is a mix-adjusted average for a single month, while this is the plain midpoint of a full year of registered sales.
If you are looking just west of the borough boundary, Ferring, which is in Arun district, had a median of £469,000 across 80 sales in the same year, and Findon £487,500 across 20. Both are covered by the same postcodes but billed by a different council.
How Worthing compares to its neighbours
| Area | Average price | Change in a year |
|---|---|---|
| Worthing | £296,227 | -5.1% |
| Arun | £321,927 | +3.1% |
| Crawley | £338,311 | +4.5% |
| Adur | £380,031 | +1.8% |
| Brighton & Hove | £407,803 | +0.3% |
| Mid Sussex | £426,441 | -0.9% |
| Chichester | £429,978 | -2.3% |
| Horsham | £436,940 | -0.2% |
| West Sussex | £372,660 | 0.0% |
| South East | £380,380 | +0.3% |
| England | £293,262 | +1.8% |
Chichester, Mid Sussex and Horsham also fell, and none fell close to as far. Cross the boundary at Lancing and the average jumps £84,000 to Adur’s £380,031, which is less about the houses than about the mix: Adur sells proportionally more houses and fewer flats than Worthing does.
What it means for you
If you are buying, the flat market is where the leverage is: one and two-bed flats in Central and Heene have had a hard year and sellers know it. Check what the commute really costs before you commit, because a season ticket to London runs to £6,236 a year from Worthing. If you are selling a house in Offington, Goring or Salvington, houses held up far better than the borough headline suggests. If you are staying put, your home is worth roughly what it was in 2023 in cash terms, and the town’s regeneration pipeline is the thing most likely to change that.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Worthing?
£296,227 in June 2026, per the UK House Price Index, which is built from completed HM Land Registry sales. Houses average considerably more: £324,454 for a terrace, £408,869 for a semi and £592,121 for a detached house.
Are Worthing house prices falling?
Yes. The borough average fell 5.1% in the year to June 2026, the steepest fall of any district in Sussex, and the drop is led by flats, which are down 6.5%. Prices have fallen in every month of 2026.
Which is the most expensive part of Worthing?
On sold prices over the year to June 2026, Offington had the highest median at £495,000, followed by Goring at £455,000 and Salvington at £415,000. The cheapest were Heene at £228,750 and Central at £230,000.
Why are Worthing flats so much cheaper than houses?
The average flat sold for £180,145 against £592,121 for a detached house. Flats are the first rung of the ladder and the most mortgage-sensitive purchase, and Worthing has a very large stock of purpose-built and converted flats along the seafront and in the town centre, so weak demand lands there first.
Is Worthing cheaper than Brighton?
Considerably. The Worthing average of £296,227 is about £112,000 below Brighton & Hove’s £407,803, and the train to Brighton takes 23 minutes.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Worthing, June 2026 provisional figures (HM Land Registry), including property type and buyer status, plus the same series for Adur, Arun, Crawley, Chichester, Horsham, Mid Sussex, Brighton & Hove, West Sussex, the South East and England
- HM Land Registry Price Paid data, queried for every sale in BN11, BN12, BN13 and BN14 between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, with each postcode matched to its council area and ward via postcodes.io; 1,596 sales returned, 1,448 of them homes inside Worthing borough
Figures are provisional and revised as late sales register. May 2026 was first published at £299,298 and has since been revised to £299,018. Checked against the sources above on 21 August 2026.
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