Average House Price in Doncaster 2026: A Postcode Breakdown

The middle home sold in Doncaster went for £180,000 in 2025, according to HM Land Registry's record of completed sales. That is about 61% of the £295,000 median for England and Wales over the same year, placing the South Yorkshire city among the more affordable places to buy a home in England. But a single citywide number hides a lot: recorded sale prices run from under £100,000 near the city centre to well over £250,000 on the rural south-eastern fringe, and the type of home matters as much as the postcode.

This guide breaks down what buyers actually paid across Doncaster in 2025 — by postcode district, by property type, and alongside the council tax, energy efficiency and stamp duty that shape the true cost of living there.

How much is a typical Doncaster home?

There are two ways to summarise a market, and they tell different stories. The median is the middle sale — half of homes sold for more, half for less — and it is the better guide to a typical purchase. The mean (the simple average) is pulled upward by a minority of higher-value sales.

Figures cover houses and flats (Land Registry category A — standard sales for value). The ~£31,000 gap between Doncaster's mean and median is the fingerprint of a smaller number of expensive detached sales stretching the average.

For context, the 2024 median was £172,000 across 3,843 sales, so the middle 2025 sale sits roughly £8,000 higher. Year-to-year moves in a raw median are sensitive to which homes happen to sell, so it is worth reading that alongside the mix-adjusted trend further down. Doncaster ranks among England's cheaper cities to buy — its median is close to those of Sheffield and other South Yorkshire authorities, which you can compare in our South Yorkshire buying and running cost guide.

Doncaster house prices by postcode district

Prices vary sharply by postcode. The table below shows the 2025 median for each Doncaster postcode district with at least 40 recorded sales, from lowest to highest.

The city-centre DN1 district, where flats make up a large share of sales, has the lowest median at £97,500. The rural DN10 district on the Nottinghamshire border is the dearest at £275,000 — nearly three times DN1. Most family-housing districts cluster between £150,000 and £200,000.

Doncaster prices by property type

The type of home is the single biggest driver of price. These are the 2025 medians by property type.

A detached home (£280,000) typically cost more than double a terraced house (£122,000) or a flat (£110,000). Semi-detached homes — the largest single slice of the market — sat at £170,000, just below the citywide median. This spread is why the true cost of a specific address depends far more on what you buy than on Doncaster's headline average.

Council tax in Doncaster

Doncaster Council set its Band D council tax at £2,167.75 for 2026-27. That is below the £2,410.97 average across England's 296 billing authorities, and the lowest of the four South Yorkshire authorities.

Band D is a benchmark, not what most people pay: the majority of Doncaster homes sit in Bands A to C and are charged less, on the fixed statutory scale (a Band A bill is two-thirds of Band D). Unusually, Doncaster is both the cheapest South Yorkshire authority to buy in and the cheapest to run on council tax — many low-price areas elsewhere carry higher bills, a pattern we explore in the council tax comparison across England's authorities.

How energy-efficient are Doncaster homes?

Across roughly 62,900 Doncaster dwellings with a linkable Energy Performance Certificate (most recent certificate per address), 40.8% are rated C or above — close to the England-and-Wales average of about 40%. Only 2.1% sit in the lowest F or G bands. Energy rating tracks build era closely: post-2003 homes are far more likely to reach band C than pre-1945 stock, which shapes the difference between newer estates and older terraces. For how much of a monthly bill energy represents, and how a rating feeds into running costs, see our Sheffield price and cost guide for a nearby comparison.

How Doncaster prices have moved

The UK House Price Index, which adjusts for the mix of homes sold, showed Doncaster up 3.9% in the year to May 2026 on a three-month-smoothed basis. That compares with 3.7% for Yorkshire and The Humber and 2.0% for England as a whole. These are backward-looking measures of what has already happened, not a forecast of what comes next. A wider view of northern markets is in our average house price in Leeds guide.

Stamp duty and monthly costs at the Doncaster median

At the £180,000 median, the Stamp Duty Land Tax picture depends on the buyer:

First-time buyers pay nothing because £180,000 is below the £300,000 first-time-buyer nil-rate threshold (HMRC, 2026); a home mover pays 2% on the slice above £125,000; an additional-property purchase carries the extra 5% surcharge across the whole price. A conveyancer confirms which rate applies at completion.

On the borrowing side, a 25% deposit (£45,000) on the median home leaves a £135,000 mortgage. At the Bank of England's most recent quoted rate for a five-year fix at 75% loan-to-value — 4.32% in April 2026 — that works out to roughly £737 a month over a 25-year term. Your own rate will depend on your lender, deposit and credit profile. This is general information, not advice — speak to a qualified adviser before acting.

You can model any of these figures for a specific home using the mortgage calculator or compare Doncaster with other regions in our cheapest postcode areas to buy in the UK guide.

See the true cost for a Doncaster street

Every home is different, and the headline median only takes you so far. To see the all-in cost — mortgage, council tax, energy and stamp duty — for a real Doncaster address, try a Doncaster postcode on Homecost.

Figures are based on around 4,067 Land Registry sales in Doncaster in 2025, the 2026-27 council tax set by Doncaster Council, Energy Performance Certificate records, and the UK House Price Index. Browse more regional price guides for other towns and cities.