England / Kent
Folkestone and Hythe£341,296
Average price, last 12 months
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The average house price in Folkestone and Hythe is £341,296 over the last 12 months. Over the past year prices fell 1.4%.
England / Kent
Folkestone and Hythe£341,296
Average price, last 12 months
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With £350,000 you could afford the average terraced house in Folkestone and Hythe.
Flats
£199,224
In budget
Terraced
£286,355
In budget
Semi-detached
£353,923
£4k short
Detached
£517,923
£168k short
Average sale price by type of home over the last 12 months, from HM Land Registry. These are averages, so cheaper homes of each type do sell.
With a 10% deposit, a 25-year mortgage at 4.5% on the average home in Folkestone and Hythe costs £1,707 a month.
£1,707
a month
A repayment mortgage on each location's average sale price over the last 12 months. The rate is an example, not a quote, so check current deals. Many lenders cap borrowing at about 4.5 times income.
Average sale price by property type over the last 12 months.
Share of last 12 months' sales by property type.
Mostly terraced houses
In Folkestone and Hythe the priciest area costs 3.4× the cheapest.
Cheapest: Newington, £286,250. Priciest: Brenzett, £971,000.
Each dot is one area inside the location, by its average sale price over the last 12 months. The areas we have prices for may not cover every part of a location.
Folkestone and Hythe has 47 public parks among 309 green space sites. Green space covers 1.1% of the area: about 38 m² per resident, or 5.3 football pitches for every 1,000 people. More green space per resident than 61% of areas in England and Wales, where the typical area has 31 m².
1.1%
of the land is green space
38 m² per resident, or 5.3 football pitches for every 1,000 residents
47 public parks
Each grid is the location's land, one square per 1%. Green space from OS Open Greenspace, not counting golf courses; Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Folkestone and Hythe has about 2.1 residents for every football pitch of land, or 778 people per square mile, which counts as high density.
Census 2021 population divided by land area. A football pitch is about 7,140 m² (105 m × 68 m).
Rolling 12-month average for each location, last 10 years. Gaps mean no sales were recorded that month.
Prices in Folkestone and Hythe were down on a year earlier in 23 months of the 108 since October 2017. They are now down 1.4% on a year earlier.
Each stripe is one month: the rolling 12-month average against the same month a year earlier, since October 2017. Falls are hatched as well as red.
Monthly sales volume for each location, last 10 years.
Every measure side by side. The highest value in each row is highlighted.
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
£341,296
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
−£4,884
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
+£92,406
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
1,497
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
4,815
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
48,338
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
342 per sq mi · High
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
109,852
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
778 per sq mi · High
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
38 m² per resident · more than 61% of areas
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
1.1%
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
47
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
72 per 1,000 · High
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
−1.8%
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
17 per 1,000
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
JAN 2021 · £410,370
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
£200k – £300k · 30.1%
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
£517,923
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
£353,923
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
£286,355
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
£199,224
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
24.4%
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
24.5%
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
27.3%
Folkestone and Hythe
England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe
23.8%
| Metric | Folkestone and Hythe England / Kent / Folkestone and Hythe |
|---|---|
| Latest 12-month average | £341,296 |
| Change over 1 year | −£4,884 |
| Change over ~10 years | +£92,406 |
| Homes sold (last 12 months) | 1,497 |
| Number of postcodes | 4,815 |
| Households (Census 2021) | 48,338 |
| Household density | 342 per sq mi · High |
| Population (Census 2021) | 109,852 |
| Population density | 778 per sq mi · High |
| Green space per resident | 38 m² per resident · more than 61% of areas |
| Green space share of area | 1.1% |
| Public parks | 47 |
| Crime rate (per 1,000 residents) | 72 per 1,000 · High |
| Crime vs previous 12 months | −1.8% |
| Anti-social behaviour per 1,000 residents | 17 per 1,000 |
| Peak month | JAN 2021 · £410,370 |
| Most common price band | £200k – £300k · 30.1% |
| Detached average | £517,923 |
| Semi-detached average | £353,923 |
| Terraced average | £286,355 |
| Flats average | £199,224 |
| Detached share of sales | 24.4% |
| Semi-detached share of sales | 24.5% |
| Terraced share of sales | 27.3% |
| Flats share of sales | 23.8% |
Sold prices from HM Land Registry. Households and population from Census 2021. Green space from OS Open Greenspace, not counting golf courses; Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Crime is police-recorded crime from police.uk, per 1,000 residents, over the latest 12 published months; anti-social behaviour is counted separately. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: police.uk.
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