Neath Port Talbot Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Neath Port Talbot'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 B charge is seven-ninths of the Band D rate, and 78.9% 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.

This is a two-band centre rather than a single-band market. Bands A and B together contain 61.4% 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.

Neath Port Talbot occupies the middle half of the Wales stock-weighted distribution, below its £2,258.00 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: Caerphilly

Caerphilly is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Neath Port Talbot, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 9.2% 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 is lower on the ladder at Band B: Neath Port Talbot has 40.9% of dwellings there, against 33.1% in Caerphilly. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• Another material separation sits at lower Band C, where Caerphilly holds 23.3% of its stock and Neath Port Talbot holds 17.4%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band E. Caerphilly records 8.4% of dwellings there, compared with 6.8% in Neath Port Talbot, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band A: Neath Port Talbot has 20.6% of dwellings there, against 19.2% in Caerphilly. 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 Neath Port Talbot
• Band B leans toward Neath Port Talbot
• Band C leans toward Caerphilly
• Band D leans toward Caerphilly
• Band E leans toward Caerphilly
• Band F leans toward Caerphilly
• Band G is closely balanced
• Band H is closely balanced
• Band I is closely balanced

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

Other close Wales matches for Neath Port Talbot: Torfaen (17.7% redistribution distance); Gwynedd (21.2% redistribution distance); Swansea (21.4% redistribution distance); Bridgend (22.3% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the Wales valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Caerphilly stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.