Havering 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 Havering 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.

This is a two-band centre rather than a single-band market. Bands C and D together contain 60.8% of dwellings, so neither band should be presented as a complete account of the area. The stock-weighted result combines both groups and the smaller tails into one comparable measure. The table shows where that mean comes from and prevents the distribution being flattened into an overconfident "typical property" claim.

Havering 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: Hounslow

Hounslow is the closest full-distribution match for Havering. The profiles are close rather than identical: 4.7% 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 is at reference Band D: its share is 33.3% in Havering and 36.6% in Hounslow. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
• Another material separation is lower on the ladder at Band A: Havering has 4.9% of dwellings there, against 2.3% in Hounslow. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: Havering has 10.2% of dwellings there, against 8.6% in Hounslow. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band G. Hounslow records 3.7% of dwellings there, compared with 2.9% in Havering, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Havering
• Band B leans toward Havering
• Band C is closely balanced
• Band D leans toward Hounslow
• Band E is closely balanced
• Band F is closely balanced
• Band G leans toward Hounslow
• Band H leans toward Hounslow

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

Other close England matches for Havering: Merton (4.9% redistribution distance); Ealing (5.2% redistribution distance); Enfield (5.6% redistribution distance); Brent (6.4% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Hounslow stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.