North East Lincolnshire Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Band D is a poor description of the largest group in North East Lincolnshire'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 £1,939.70 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 51.0% 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.

North East Lincolnshire occupies the middle half of the Yorkshire and The Humber stock-weighted distribution, above its £1,939.70 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: Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is the closest full-distribution match for North East Lincolnshire. The profiles are close rather than identical: 3.6% 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 Wolverhampton holds 15.5% of its stock and North East Lincolnshire holds 12.4%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: North East Lincolnshire has 24.3% of dwellings there, against 22.4% in Wolverhampton. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band A: North East Lincolnshire has 51.0% of dwellings there, against 50.3% in Wolverhampton. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 7.0% of North East Lincolnshire's stock but 6.5% of Wolverhampton's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward North East Lincolnshire
• Band B leans toward North East Lincolnshire
• Band C leans toward Wolverhampton
• Band D leans toward North East Lincolnshire
• Band E leans toward North East Lincolnshire
• 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 North East Lincolnshire: Chesterfield (3.9% redistribution distance); Rotherham (4.5% redistribution distance); Knowsley (4.6% redistribution distance); Derby City (5.0% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Wolverhampton stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.