Pembrokeshire Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Pembrokeshire'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 C charge is eight-ninths of the Band D rate, and 48.4% 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.

Pembrokeshire 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 9 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.

Pembrokeshire 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: Conwy

Conwy is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Pembrokeshire, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 6.4% 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 sits at lower Band C, where Conwy holds 26.7% of its stock and Pembrokeshire holds 22.9%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• Another material separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band E. Pembrokeshire places 19.8% of dwellings there versus 16.0% for Conwy, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• Another material separation is at reference Band D: its share is 18.2% in Pembrokeshire and 20.5% in Conwy. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band A: Pembrokeshire has 10.6% of dwellings there, against 9.4% in Conwy. 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 Pembrokeshire
• Band B leans toward Pembrokeshire
• Band C leans toward Conwy
• Band D leans toward Conwy
• Band E leans toward Pembrokeshire
• Band F leans toward Pembrokeshire
• 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 Pembrokeshire: Powys (8.4% redistribution distance); Ceredigion (9.3% redistribution distance); Isle of Anglesey (9.7% redistribution distance); Flintshire (9.9% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the Wales valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Conwy stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.