Mid Sussex 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 Mid Sussex 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.

Mid Sussex 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.

Mid Sussex 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: East Hertfordshire

East Hertfordshire is the closest full-distribution match for Mid Sussex. The profiles are close rather than identical: 4.7% 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 C, where East Hertfordshire holds 24.2% of its stock and Mid Sussex holds 21.9%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band A: Mid Sussex has 3.3% of dwellings there, against 1.5% in East Hertfordshire. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band G. East Hertfordshire records 8.7% of dwellings there, compared with 7.1% in Mid Sussex, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: Mid Sussex has 11.1% of dwellings there, against 9.5% in East Hertfordshire. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Mid Sussex
• Band B leans toward Mid Sussex
• Band C leans toward East Hertfordshire
• Band D is closely balanced
• Band E is closely balanced
• Band F leans toward Mid Sussex
• Band G leans toward East Hertfordshire
• Band H leans toward East Hertfordshire

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

Other close England matches for Mid Sussex: Epping Forest (5.5% redistribution distance); Horsham (5.9% redistribution distance); Brentwood (6.2% redistribution distance); Wandsworth (6.3% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether East Hertfordshire stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.