Mole Valley 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 Mole Valley 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.

Mole Valley 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.

Mole Valley sits in the upper quarter of South East on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,511.00. 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: Tandridge

Tandridge is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Mole Valley, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 8.6% of dwellings to move between valuation bands. Even the closest council therefore has a materially different housing-stock shape.

Four largest band differences

• The largest separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Mole Valley places 19.6% of dwellings there versus 16.7% for Tandridge, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• Another material separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band F. Mole Valley places 15.8% of dwellings there versus 12.9% for Tandridge, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• Another material separation sits at lower Band C, where Tandridge holds 14.2% of its stock and Mole Valley holds 11.4%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• Another material separation is at reference Band D: its share is 21.1% in Mole Valley and 23.9% in Tandridge. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Mole Valley
• Band B leans toward Mole Valley
• Band C leans toward Tandridge
• Band D leans toward Tandridge
• Band E leans toward Tandridge
• Band F leans toward Mole Valley
• Band G leans toward Mole Valley
• Band H leans toward Tandridge

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

Other close England matches for Mole Valley: Elmbridge (10.1% redistribution distance); Windsor & Maidenhead (10.1% redistribution distance); Surrey Heath (10.4% redistribution distance); Hammersmith & Fulham (10.5% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Tandridge stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.