Malvern Hills Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Malvern Hills's largest property group sits in the lower half of the valuation ladder rather than at the Band D reference used in national tables. Its modal Band C charge is eight-ninths of the Band D rate, and 53.1% of the published stock lies below D. The headline alone does not show how often each band occurs. The stock-weighted amount applies the full distribution for an area-level comparison, while remaining an average rather than a household quotation.

Malvern Hills 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.

Malvern Hills sits in the upper quarter of West Midlands on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,132.00. 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: Wychavon

Wychavon is the closest full-distribution match for Malvern Hills. The profiles are close rather than identical: 3.3% 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 falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 15.5% of Malvern Hills's stock but 13.7% of Wychavon's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band G. Wychavon records 7.8% of dwellings there, compared with 6.6% in Malvern Hills, 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 E. Malvern Hills places 13.8% of dwellings there versus 12.6% for Wychavon, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• A smaller distinction sits at lower Band A, where Wychavon holds 11.5% of its stock and Malvern Hills holds 10.5%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Wychavon
• Band B is closely balanced
• Band C leans toward Wychavon
• Band D leans toward Malvern Hills
• Band E leans toward Malvern Hills
• Band F is closely balanced
• Band G leans toward Wychavon
• Band H is closely balanced

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

Other close England matches for Malvern Hills: Derbyshire Dales (3.4% redistribution distance); Rushcliffe (4.9% redistribution distance); East Devon (5.1% redistribution distance); Harborough (5.3% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Wychavon stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.