Barnsley Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Band D is a poor description of the largest group in Barnsley's housing stock. The dominant group is Band A, where the statutory charge is two-thirds of the Band D rate, while the reference band describes a different part of the valuation list. The £1,813.10 stock-weighted figure is therefore the more representative area-level comparison. It does not predict an individual bill, because discounts, exemptions and the property's actual valuation band still determine liability.

The distribution is unusually concentrated: one band alone contains 56.4% of all published dwellings. That gives the modal-band comparison real descriptive weight and makes the gap between its charge and Band D easier to interpret. It also means the statutory charge shown for that band applies to the largest share of the local stock before discounts or exemptions. The table remains necessary because the other 7 bands describe the minority of properties that the headline cannot represent.

Barnsley falls in the lower quarter of the Yorkshire and The Humber stock-weighted ordering, below the regional median of £1,939.70. Its Band D figure may sit elsewhere in the national table, but applying the local stock mix produces a cheaper regional comparison. That difference is precisely why both measures are shown. Neither replaces an address-level bill, which depends on the property's valuation band and any applicable reductions.

Closest housing-stock shape: Bolsover

Bolsover is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Barnsley: moving 2.0% of dwellings between valuation bands would make the two published distributions align. That is a stricter comparison than sharing a modal band, because all published bands contribute to the distance.

Four largest band differences

• The largest separation sits at lower Band B, where Bolsover holds 17.8% of its stock and Barnsley holds 16.8%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• A smaller distinction sits at lower Band A, where Bolsover holds 57.4% of its stock and Barnsley holds 56.4%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band E. Barnsley places 3.6% of dwellings there versus 2.9% for Bolsover, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• A smaller distinction falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 8.5% of Barnsley's stock but 7.9% of Bolsover's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Bolsover
• Band B leans toward Bolsover
• Band C is closely balanced
• Band D leans toward Barnsley
• Band E leans toward Barnsley
• Band F leans toward Barnsley
• Band G is closely balanced
• Band H is closely balanced

This sequence is read from the lowest published band to the highest.

Other close England matches for Barnsley: Durham (2.6% redistribution distance); Sheffield (2.6% redistribution distance); Blackburn with Darwen (2.6% redistribution distance); Manchester (2.8% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Bolsover stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.