Birdham
House prices, flood zones and new building. Land Registry sales to August 2026; figures last changed 22 October 2026.
Birdham homes sold for a median of £482,000 between September 2025 and August 2026. That rests on 19 sales, so a couple of big houses can move it a long way.
Latest update, 22 October 2026: the district price index now runs to August 2026.
- Median sold price
- £482,000
- September 2025 – August 2026
- Homes sold
- 19
- 16 in the 12 months before
- Flood zone 3
- 0 of 58
- postcodes; 0 more in zone 2
- Chichester district index
- −2.7%
- year to August 2026
Sales from July and August 2026 are still being registered with Land Registry, so the latest counts will rise.
What do homes in Birdham sell for?
Birdham is a village on the south shore of Chichester Harbour, on the Manhood Peninsula about four miles south-west of Chichester, where the Chichester Canal meets the harbour.
The table below uses three years of sales, so each type of home has enough of them to mean something. Types with fewer than five sales are left out.
| Detached | £629,000 | 30 |
| Semi-detached | £413,000 | 13 |
| Terraced | £346,000 | 10 |
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Download these figures (CSV).
Are Birdham house prices going up or down?
There are too few sales in Birdham to compare one year with the next. The steadier guide is the official index for Chichester district, which adjusts for the kind of homes sold: it fell 2.7% in the year to August 2026.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · UK House Price Index.
Is Birdham an expensive place to live?
Yes, by local standards. Detached houses made up 57% of its sales between September 2023 and August 2026, at a median of £629,000. On the government's deprivation index its one neighbourhood sits in decile 8, where 10 is the least deprived tenth of England. That index measures deprivation, not wealth, so it supports the picture rather than proving it.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
How many homes sell in Birdham each year?
HM Land Registry recorded 19 open-market sales in Birdham between September 2025 and August 2026, against 16 in the 12 months before. None of them were recorded as new builds; newly built homes can take several months to appear in Land Registry's records.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
Sales year by year
| 2021 | £531,000 | 24 |
| 2022 | £657,000 | 14 |
| 2023 | £458,000 | 15 |
| 2024 | £588,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £550,000 | 21 |
| 2026, January to August | £470,000 | 10 |
What locals say about Birdham
From lifelong locals who have lived on this stretch of coast for over 60 years. Where a point can be checked against sales or a published source, the figures or the link follow it.
- The new houses are what locals talk about. Building has started on a fenced-off site by the playing fields behind the village shop.
- Buyers want to be towards the water, around Birdham Pool and the harbour. Median sale prices between September 2023 and August 2026: within 800 metres of Birdham Pool £1,600,000 (7 sales, 86% detached); further from the water £490,000 (47 sales, 51% detached). Since 1995, Land Registry has recorded sales of 72 different homes within 800 metres of Birdham Pool, and 435 further from the water.
- Boat owners keep their boats at Birdham Pool, a small marina, and the Salterns Way cycle route runs along the back of the village, away from the main road. Chichester Harbour Conservancy: Salterns Way
- The summer grumble is traffic. The road to the Witterings runs through Birdham, so the beach traffic does too.
Birdham at a glance
The short answers. Each question links to the full answer, with its figures, dates and sources.
Flooding and land in Birdham
- Does Birdham flood?
- Very little from rivers and the sea: none of its 58 postcodes is in flood zone 3; 18 (31%) have high or medium risk from heavy rain.
- Will Birdham flood more in future?
- Yes, noticeably more: on the Environment Agency's climate change scenario, postcodes at high or medium risk from rivers and the sea go from none to one, and from heavy rain go from 18 to 23.
- How often does Birdham get flood warnings?
- Flood warnings went out for part of Birdham on eleven days in the ten years to June 2026, and flood alerts on 44.
- Is the coast at Birdham eroding?
- Not where homes are, on current plans; the shoreline plan for most of its coast is to hold the line to 2105.
- Are there old landfill sites near Birdham?
- None that the Environment Agency knows of within 500 metres of a Birdham postcode.
Water and energy in Birdham
- How often does sewage spill near Birdham?
- No monitored storm overflow lies within 1.5 km of a Birdham postcode, on the 2025 returns.
- How clean is the water for swimming near Birdham?
- The nearest beach the Environment Agency rates is Bracklesham Bay, 4.3 km away: Excellent for 2025.
- How energy efficient are homes in Birdham?
- 47% of its homes with a certificate are rated C or better, against 50% across the Chichester area; the most common rating is D.
Getting around Birdham
- Can you live in Birdham without a car?
- In much of it, yes, though not all: the basics are within a walk, but frequent buses reach only part of it. The nearest station is Fishbourne, a median 5.1 km away.
Planning and new building in Birdham
- What is being built near Birdham?
- Land Registry has recorded no sales of newly built homes since January 2022, though new estates take months to appear.
- Can I extend or alter a home in Birdham?
- 45 of its 58 postcodes are in a conservation area, National Landscape or National Park, where more needs planning permission; 12 listed buildings lie within 100 metres.
Living in Birdham
- Who lives in Birdham?
- About 1,680 people at the 2021 Census; 30% were 65 or over, against 18% in England, and 15% of households rented privately.
- How much is council tax in Birdham?
- Band D is £2,459 for 2026 to 2027, against an average of £2,470 across Chichester district.
- Is Birdham safe?
- About 44 recorded crimes for every 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026, against 64 across Chichester district.
- How noisy is Birdham, and how clean is the air?
- 18 of its 58 postcodes (31%) are above the WHO's road noise guideline; background nitrogen dioxide is about 7 micrograms per cubic metre, under the legal limit of 40.
Figures cover 58 postcodes in Birdham and only Land Registry's standard-price sales: repossessions, sales to companies and other non-standard transfers are left out. How these figures are made.