Football Postcodes

Winners and Losers

Stamford Bridge Stadium the Home of Chelsea Football Club // Stock87 / Alamy Stock Photo

At the top of the overall honours list is the West London pair of Chelsea and Fulham. Both clubs currently plying their trade in the Premier League, both clubs based within the postcode of SW6 at an average house price of £1,193,002.

At just over £1.1m the SW6 postcode is the only one that demands a seven-figure value when buying a house in its vicinity and this pocket of South West London is nearly £300,000 more than that of Arsenal in third.

The Gunners may be doing their best to win the Premier League title – albeit falling short for another season and they are once again pipped to top honours when it comes to average house price cost in the N5 postcode.

A house near the Emirates Stadium would cost an average of £828,697 – enough to close out a Premier League top three in our list and nearly £100,000 more than the first non-Premier club in the house price table.

Championship honours and fourth overall goes to Queens Park Rangers where the W12 postcode is currently demanding a £731,985 average house price and with AFC Wimbledon of League Two in fifth and the West Ham of the Premier League in sixth, there is London domination at large.

Especially when you look at the top 10 and with Milton Keynes Dons’s MK1 postcode demanding £640,000 in terms of average house prices, the Buckinghamshire-based outfit are the only non-London outfit in this list.

Therefore, if we know that London is going to be generating some of the highest average house prices per football club postcode, it is time to find out where the lowest average house prices can be found:

Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough // Every Second Media / Alamy Stock Photo

If you are looking for a bargain, you may want to get yourself over to Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium. The Championship outfit may be doing their best to earn Premier League promotion but they are at the foot of the table when it comes to house prices.

Just £88,722 is all that is required on average to purchase a house in the TS3 postcode – the only club that will give you change out of £100,000k and a figure that is nearly £20k less than second bottom Blackpool of League One.

The Bloomfield Road outfit are bottom of the League One list and 91^st overall with their FY1 postcode only demanding £108,134 in terms of average house price - £5k more than the two teams that prop up the Premier League list.

Although Liverpool are inches away from winning the Premier League under new manager Arne Slot, the L4 postcode only asks for £113,691 – a figure that is less than one tenth of table toppers Chelsea and Fulham.

However, Liverpool do at least share the unwanted honour with neighbours Everton or at least for now they do. The Toffees have picked up the keys to their new home and it will be interesting to see if that does anything for average house prices once they finally complete their move.

While the Championship also has further representation in the overall bottom 10 and it is another club that can be found on the eastern side of the English coast. Hull City’s MKM Stadium is situated in the HU3 postcode and commands an average house price of £117,710.

£20k and £23k less respectively when compared to fellow Championship outfits Sunderland and Burnley and £11k less than the club that props up League Two. Bradford City have the sixth lowest overall average house prices per postcode, coming in at £128,641.

£18k less than fellow League Two stragglers Port Vale and £14k less than the club that finds itself at the bottom of the League One Ladder. Accrington Stanley may play at the Wham Stadium, but there’s not a lot of wow factor in the BB5 postcode with average house prices only fetching £142,241.

The Premier League

Craven Cottage in Fulham, London // PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

If we split the data on a league-by-league basis, we can get a geographical picture per division and we can do so starting with the Premier League.

As already referenced, we know that Chelsea and Fulham share the Premier League postcode honours with fellow London outfits Arsenal and West Ham doing enough to earn Champions League invites thanks to their top 10 overall house prices.

While London dominance continues into fifth as Brentford’s TW8 postcode currently demands £513,792 when it comes to house prices and by a difference of just £2, they manage to beat Brighton into sixth.

The Seagulls are the first non-London club in the Premier League with Tottenham swinging the price point pendulum back to the capital thanks to the N17 postcode demanding £489,684 for a house in that area.

Seven London clubs are currently in the top tier, Crystal Palace is the cheapest Premier League area of the capital with SE25 house prices with an average of £402,271 – good enough to position them in ninth while sandwiched between Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest.

In Manchester there is a stark difference between the two respective postcodes that represent United and City. United find themselves 12^th in the Premier League with M16 average house prices at £287,536 compared to M11 which is priced at £189,977.

Those two values are good enough for 12^th and 15^th in the Premier League and with Everton and Liverpool already consigned to relegation, it is Aston Villa that join them within the confines of the bottom three. The B6 postcode in Birmingham commanding just £157,716 in terms of house price.

The Championship

With the winners and losers declared in the Premier League, it is time to look at the landscape of the Championship.

Queens Park Rangers are popping the champagne corks thanks to their W12 average price of £731,985 and they are joined by local rivals Millwall when it comes to earning postcode promotion to the Premier League.

The Den may not be the most welcoming of grounds but the area surrounding it within SE16 is worth of £527,238 at present and this is enough to secure the runners-up spot within the confines of the Championship table.

Once we get out of the top two, the geographical picture is a lot more varied as Oxford, Bristol City, Watford and Luton all make the theoretical playoffs and if the former two went to Wembley, it would be the Kassam Stadium outfit that would also be on the way to the Premier League.

Oxford’s OX4 postcode is currently asking £454,731 in terms of average house prices, more than £60k higher than Bristol City’s BS3 which has an average price of £391,343 by comparison while sitting fourth in the division.

At the other end of the standings, it is the North East which largely comes into focus with Sunderland and Middlesbrough consigned to the bottom three. The Stadium of Light in SR5 has an average house price of £137,861 – leading it to relegation down to League One.

With Middlesbrough serving up the cheapest postcode overall, it is no surprise that they find themselves bottom of the Championship with Hull also finding themselves having to make do with relegation.

While a look at performance on the pitch also reveals an interesting picture off it. Sheffield United, Leeds and Burnley all eyeing up promotion to the Premier League at the end of the season, their houses price are positioning them a lot closer to League One.

Sheffield United’s S2 postcode only commands £178,562 – the 17^th highest value in the Championship but still £25k more than Leeds in 19^th whose LS11 postcode is worth £13k more than that of Burnley’s BB10 postcode at Turf Moor.

League One List

With the top two tiers of English football handing out their honours, it is now time to look at League One.

Unsurprisingly, it is another London club that rules the roost as Charlton Athletic’s SE7 postcode is asking for an average of £524,607 in exchange for a house in vicinity to the Valley Stadium – just £2k more than Cambridge United in second.

Cambridge United’s CB5 postcode finds itself in a London-based sandwich with Leyton Orient claiming third in League one and the final promotion spot towards the Championship with each of the top three clubs all generating more than £500k when it comes to average house price.

Just missing out on promotion to the second tier are the playoff quartet of Bristol Rovers, Reading,, Stevenage and Wycombe. Rovers’ RS7 postcode demanding £475k in terms of average price, more than £50k higher than that of Reading in fifth.

At the other end of the table, four teams suffered relegation to League Two and it does not make good reading for Barnsley, Huddersfield, Accrington Stanley or Blackpool. Bargains to be found in Yorkshire and Lancashire with no more than £176,360 required to be spent.

Talking of spending, there is no doubt that Wrexham and Birmingham City have been flashing the cash in terms of recruitment this season but that is not reflected in the house prices of each postcode area.

A welcome to Wrexham would cost just £192,502 meaning the Hollywood effect of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney has not transferred to house prices in North Wales but this still more than £15k more than League one leaders Birmingham City and their B9 postcode.

League Two Ladder

While we must also shine a light on house prices within the fourth tier of English football. Who will get promoted, who will drop out of the league itself?

Since the inception of Milton Keynes Dons there has always been an element of hostility from AFC Wimbledon and although the former stole the latter’s membership to the Football League at the start of the millennium, the South West London outfit now have some bragging rights of their own.

Bragging rights that come in the form of topping the League Two housing list with an average cost of £698,907 within the SW17 postcode – nearly £60k more than the value of their arch enemies’ houses within MK1.

However, these two locations are not the only to command an average house price of over £600k and thanks to Bromley’s BR2 postcode being worth £623,838, it is enough to position the Greater London outfit into third.

Promotion for the top three and also for Harrogate Town in fourth. The Yorkshire outfit find themselves within the HG2 postcode and at a value of £455,150, they have managed to keep the likes of Cheltenham Town, Notts County and Salford City at bay.

While at the other end of the table there is a dramatic relegation battle unfolding. Two teams drop out to the Vanarama National and Fleetwood Town seemingly survive on the final day of the campaign.

Their FY7 postcode is able to command £147,130 in terms of average house price and this is just £524 more than that of League Two counterparts Port Vale and their ST6 postcode which is consigned to the drop.

Joining Port Vale in terms of relegation blues are Bradford City. The Bantams ply their trade at Valley Parade and the BD8 postcode props up League Two after generating an average house price of £128,641.

League Average Values

Another way to look at the data is by an average figure across the league and when we do that, the table looks like this:

The Premier League tops the shop with a league average of £428,892 but from that point the existing sequence of competition is disrupted and the reason for this is because the Championship has the lowest league average at £258,672.

That figure is £34k less than League One in third and at £292,752 the third tier of English football finds itself just £1,346 behind League Two in second. This may be the fourth tier but with areas such as Wimbledon and Milton Keynes doing the heavy lifting, they are more than holding their own.

Methodology

Postcode data from Google.

Main part of postcode e.g. NE1 entered into Rightmove house price database

Data correct as of April 16^th 2025.