Islington 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 Islington 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 56.3% 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.

Islington occupies the middle half of the London stock-weighted distribution, above 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: Enfield

Enfield is the closest full-distribution match for Islington. The profiles are close rather than identical: 5.2% 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 B, where Enfield holds 9.7% of its stock and Islington holds 5.5%. 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 F. Islington places 9.3% of dwellings there versus 7.5% for Enfield, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Islington places 6.5% of dwellings there versus 4.7% for Enfield, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• A smaller distinction sits at lower Band C, where Enfield holds 27.4% of its stock and Islington holds 26.5%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A is closely balanced
• Band B leans toward Enfield
• Band C leans toward Enfield
• Band D leans toward Islington
• Band E leans toward Islington
• Band F leans toward Islington
• Band G leans toward Islington
• Band H is closely balanced

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

Other close England matches for Islington: Tonbridge & Malling (6.2% redistribution distance); Ealing (7.2% redistribution distance); Harrow (7.5% redistribution distance); West Berkshire (7.7% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Enfield stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.