Hillingdon 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 Hillingdon 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 64.0% 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.

Hillingdon occupies the middle half of the London stock-weighted distribution, below its £2,261.38 median. The regional result gives more context than a UK-wide rank without turning the difference into a superlative. It also shows that the council's band mix, not only its published Band D rate, determines where it sits among nearby authorities. The remaining distance from the median is an area-level comparison rather than a household saving or premium.

Closest housing-stock shape: Broxbourne

Broxbourne is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Hillingdon, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 7.7% of dwellings to move between valuation bands. Even the closest council therefore has a materially different housing-stock shape.

Four largest band differences

• The largest separation falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 40.1% of Hillingdon's stock but 34.3% of Broxbourne's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.
• Another material separation sits at lower Band B, where Broxbourne holds 9.0% of its stock and Hillingdon holds 5.5%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• Another material separation is an upper-band difference at Band E. Broxbourne records 18.6% of dwellings there, compared with 15.9% in Hillingdon, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band F. Hillingdon places 8.5% of dwellings there versus 7.1% for Broxbourne, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A is closely balanced
• Band B leans toward Broxbourne
• Band C is closely balanced
• Band D leans toward Hillingdon
• Band E leans toward Broxbourne
• Band F leans toward Hillingdon
• Band G leans toward Broxbourne
• Band H is closely balanced

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

Other close England matches for Hillingdon: Hounslow (8.4% redistribution distance); Ealing (9.0% redistribution distance); Spelthorne (9.1% redistribution distance); Merton (10.0% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Broxbourne stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.