Leicester City Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Band D is a poor description of the largest group in Leicester City's housing stock. The dominant group is Band A, where the statutory charge is two-thirds of the Band D rate, while the reference band describes a different part of the valuation list. The £1,917.75 stock-weighted figure is therefore the more representative area-level comparison. It does not predict an individual bill, because discounts, exemptions and the property's actual valuation band still determine liability.

The distribution is unusually concentrated: one band alone contains 59.6% of all published dwellings. That gives the modal-band comparison real descriptive weight and makes the gap between its charge and Band D easier to interpret. It also means the statutory charge shown for that band applies to the largest share of the local stock before discounts or exemptions. The table remains necessary because the other 7 bands describe the minority of properties that the headline cannot represent.

Leicester City falls in the lower quarter of the East Midlands stock-weighted ordering, below the regional median of £2,103.94. Its Band D figure may sit elsewhere in the national table, but applying the local stock mix produces a cheaper regional comparison. That difference is precisely why both measures are shown. Neither replaces an address-level bill, which depends on the property's valuation band and any applicable reductions.

Closest housing-stock shape: Liverpool

Liverpool is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Leicester City: moving 1.7% 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 is lower on the ladder at Band B: Leicester City has 19.5% of dwellings there, against 18.6% in Liverpool. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 5.1% in Leicester City and 5.8% in Liverpool. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
• A smaller distinction sits at lower Band C, where Liverpool holds 12.4% of its stock and Leicester City holds 11.7%. 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 E. Leicester City places 2.5% of dwellings there versus 2.1% for Liverpool, 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 Leicester City
• Band C leans toward Liverpool
• Band D leans toward Liverpool
• Band E is closely balanced
• 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 Leicester City: Lincoln (1.9% redistribution distance); City of Nottingham (3.2% redistribution distance); Stoke-on-Trent (3.3% redistribution distance); Doncaster (3.7% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Liverpool stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.