Camden Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Here the standard Band D benchmark and the most common property group point to the same part of the distribution. That makes Camden less sensitive than most authorities to the familiar criticism that Band D is merely a reference property. The stock-weighted amount is still useful: it incorporates the lower and upper bands instead of treating the modal group as the whole area. It should be read as a corpus comparison, not as the bill of a particular address.

Camden has a broad valuation-band profile: the largest 3 groups are needed before the cumulative share passes half of the stock. No single band dominates the local picture, which makes a one-band headline especially incomplete. The weighted result is useful for comparing this authority with peers, but the spread across 8 published bands matters just as much. A broad mix also means the area-level mean is less representative of any one household than it is in a concentrated council.

Camden sits in the upper quarter of London on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,261.38. This narrows the comparison from a UK rank to authorities facing the same broad regional context, while still correcting each one for its different band mix. The placement says the council's average published stock is relatively costly within that peer set; it does not convert the mean into an individual household charge.

Closest housing-stock shape: Epping Forest

Epping Forest is the closest full-distribution match for Camden. The profiles are close rather than identical: 4.8% of dwellings would need to shift between valuation bands for their published shares to align. The comparison therefore tests the whole ladder, not just the largest band.

Four largest band differences

• The largest separation sits at lower Band C, where Epping Forest holds 20.6% of its stock and Camden holds 18.2%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• Another material separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band H. Camden places 4.3% of dwellings there versus 2.1% for Epping Forest, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: Camden has 10.8% of dwellings there, against 8.9% in Epping Forest. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 23.3% in Camden and 24.2% in Epping Forest. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Epping Forest
• Band B leans toward Camden
• Band C leans toward Epping Forest
• Band D leans toward Epping Forest
• Band E is closely balanced
• Band F leans toward Epping Forest
• Band G leans toward Camden
• Band H leans toward Camden

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

Other close England matches for Camden: Horsham (5.4% redistribution distance); Brentwood (5.6% redistribution distance); Three Rivers (5.8% redistribution distance); Waverley (6.4% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Epping Forest stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.