Buy-to-let in Derbyshire Dales

Derbyshire Dales in figures

Gross rental yield

3.8% to 4.0%

By kind of home, across Derbyshire Dales

Entry price, across its towns

£235,000 to £365,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+7.9%

UK House Price Index, across Derbyshire Dales

Price move, 10 years

+48.9%

UK House Price Index, across Derbyshire Dales

Population

72,028

Derbyshire Dales, +1.5% growth

• Terraced houses across Derbyshire Dales let for £770/mo against a median sale of £229,000 there: 4.0% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £819/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Derbyshire Dales rose 7.9% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +49% over ten years (Derbyshire Dales)
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 6.8% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain (Derbyshire Dales)
• £14,580 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £244,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Derbyshire Dales)
• 181 homes added across Derbyshire Dales
• Band D £2,445 (Derbyshire Dales)
• 1.1% long-term empty across Derbyshire Dales
• +24% five-year forecast for East Midlands as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Derbyshire Dales report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Derbyshire Dales moved +48.9% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 6.8% of employee jobs in Derbyshire Dales, against 1.4% across Great Britain (2,500 jobs in 2015, 2,500 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Derbyshire Dales moved +12.1% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

57% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Ashbourne's postcode districts are below band C (9,413 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £244,000 pays £14,580 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, East Midlands) is a regional figure for East Midlands as a whole, not a forecast for Derbyshire Dales, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Derbyshire Dales

Each yield is Derbyshire Dales's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Derbyshire Dales as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Derbyshire Dales report

The full report measures Derbyshire Dales from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Derbyshire Dales report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

The investment map ranks Derbyshire Dales against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.