How we worked it out

We used home-grown Zoopla data to calculate the average first time buyer property value for every local authority across Great Britain.

The income required is the amount you would need to prove to a mortgage lender in order to buy a typical first time buyer home within each local authority.

To calculate affordability, we used mortgage data from UK Finance to derive deposit sizes, mortgage interest rates and length of mortgage term by region.

Most popular property types are based on Zoopla first time buyer enquiries between January and June 2019.