Horsham 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 Horsham 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.

Horsham 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.

Horsham occupies the middle half of the South East stock-weighted distribution, above its £2,511.00 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: Uttlesford

Uttlesford is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Horsham: 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 falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 21.6% of Horsham's stock but 19.8% of Uttlesford's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band E. Uttlesford records 18.7% of dwellings there, compared with 17.4% in Horsham, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction sits at lower Band C, where Uttlesford holds 21.5% of its stock and Horsham holds 21.0%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band F. Uttlesford records 13.0% of dwellings there, compared with 12.8% in Horsham, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A is closely balanced
• Band B is closely balanced
• Band C is closely balanced
• Band D leans toward Horsham
• Band E leans toward Uttlesford
• Band F is closely balanced
• 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 Horsham: Epping Forest (3.7% redistribution distance); Wandsworth (4.6% redistribution distance); Buckinghamshire (5.1% redistribution distance); Brentwood (5.2% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Uttlesford stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.