RPI inflation, 1965 to July 2026

£100 in 1965 is £2,828 today

That £100 bought 455 dozen eggs in 1965. Today it buys 42.

Prices up 2,728%5.6% a year on averageMultiply by 28.28

Measured with the Retail Prices Index, the only official series that runs back to 1948. Use CPI instead.

It takes 28.3 of today's pounds to match one from 1965

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What £100 buys

Official average shop prices, not a basket. Things marked as outrunning inflation got dearer faster than everything else; things that lagged got relatively cheaper.

Item	1965	Today
dozen eggslagged inflation22p then, about £2.38 today	455	42
pints of milklagged inflation4p then, about 70p today	2,500	144
Same money, adjusted for inflation	£100	£2,828

The ONS stopped publishing these average prices in January 2025. Today's figures are that last reading moved on with inflation, so treat them as close rather than exact.

Houses and wages

Inflation is one story. What people earned, and what a home cost, are the other two.

Average house

£3,353 → £278,784

Up 83.1×, against 28.3× for prices generally

Average pay

£660 → £39,260

A year's average earnings, up 59.4×

Years of pay for a house

5.1 → 7.1

Average house price divided by average annual pay

If it had tracked wages

£5,945

What £100 in 1965 would be today if it had grown with pay rather than prices