Rutland Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Rutland'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 55.0% 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.

Rutland 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.

Rutland sets the upper edge of the East Midlands comparison on this stock-weighted measure. That is stronger evidence than its UK-wide Band D position alone because every authority in the peer set is judged after its own band distribution is applied. The result identifies the most expensive average stock profile in the region; it does not establish that every property in Rutland has the region's highest bill.

Closest housing-stock shape: Harborough

Harborough is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Rutland, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 6.8% 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: Rutland has 26.9% of dwellings there, against 21.8% in Harborough. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• Another material separation is an upper-band difference at Band E. Harborough records 16.5% of dwellings there, compared with 13.2% in Rutland, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 14.2% in Rutland and 15.9% in Harborough. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
• A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Rutland places 7.5% of dwellings there versus 6.3% for Harborough, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Harborough
• Band B leans toward Rutland
• Band C leans toward Harborough
• Band D leans toward Harborough
• Band E leans toward Harborough
• Band F is closely balanced
• Band G leans toward Rutland
• Band H is closely balanced

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

Other close England matches for Rutland: Derbyshire Dales (7.6% redistribution distance); Mid Suffolk (7.9% redistribution distance); Malvern Hills (8.6% redistribution distance); Herefordshire (8.9% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Harborough stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.