Powys Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Powys'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 43.2% 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.

Powys 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.

Powys sits in the upper quarter of Wales on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,258.00. 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: Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Powys, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 8.4% 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 appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band F. Powys places 14.6% of dwellings there versus 9.6% for Pembrokeshire, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• Another material separation sits at lower Band C, where Pembrokeshire holds 22.9% of its stock and Powys holds 19.9%. 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 G. Powys places 6.2% of dwellings there versus 3.4% for Pembrokeshire, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• Another material separation is at reference Band D: its share is 15.9% in Powys and 18.2% in Pembrokeshire. 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 Pembrokeshire
• Band B leans toward Pembrokeshire
• Band C leans toward Pembrokeshire
• Band D leans toward Pembrokeshire
• Band E leans toward Pembrokeshire
• Band F leans toward Powys
• Band G leans toward Powys
• 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 Powys: Cardiff (9.1% redistribution distance); Conwy (11.9% redistribution distance); Flintshire (12.3% redistribution distance); Ceredigion (12.7% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the Wales valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Pembrokeshire stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.