North Warwickshire Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

North Warwickshire'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 69.8% 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.

North Warwickshire 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.

North Warwickshire occupies the middle half of the West Midlands stock-weighted distribution, above its £2,132.00 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 Suffolk

East Suffolk is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for North Warwickshire: moving 3.0% of dwellings between valuation bands would make the two published distributions align. That is a stricter comparison than sharing a modal band, because all published bands contribute to the distance.

Four largest band differences

• The largest separation is lower on the ladder at Band C: North Warwickshire has 22.0% of dwellings there, against 19.4% in East Suffolk. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 13.6% in North Warwickshire and 15.3% in East Suffolk. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band E. East Suffolk records 9.6% of dwellings there, compared with 8.8% in North Warwickshire, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction sits at lower Band A, where East Suffolk holds 22.9% of its stock and North Warwickshire holds 22.7%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A is closely balanced
• Band B is closely balanced
• Band C leans toward North Warwickshire
• Band D leans toward East Suffolk
• Band E leans toward East Suffolk
• 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 Warwickshire: Cornwall (3.2% redistribution distance); North Norfolk (3.5% redistribution distance); Wyre Forest (3.8% redistribution distance); Staffordshire Moorlands (3.8% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether East Suffolk stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.