Vale of Glamorgan Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Vale of Glamorgan'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 36.4% 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.

Vale of Glamorgan 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.

Vale of Glamorgan 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: Cardiff

Cardiff is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Vale of Glamorgan, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 8.2% 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 at reference Band D: its share is 19.1% in Vale of Glamorgan and 22.4% in Cardiff. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
• Another material separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Vale of Glamorgan places 9.5% of dwellings there versus 6.4% for Cardiff, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• Another material separation is lower on the ladder at Band C: Vale of Glamorgan has 23.3% of dwellings there, against 20.9% in Cardiff. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band H. Vale of Glamorgan places 3.6% of dwellings there versus 1.7% for Cardiff, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A leans toward Cardiff
• Band B leans toward Cardiff
• Band C leans toward Vale of Glamorgan
• Band D leans toward Cardiff
• Band E leans toward Cardiff
• Band F leans toward Cardiff
• Band G leans toward Vale of Glamorgan
• Band H leans toward Vale of Glamorgan
• Band I leans toward Vale of Glamorgan

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

Other close Wales matches for Vale of Glamorgan: Monmouthshire (11.5% redistribution distance); Flintshire (12.7% redistribution distance); Powys (13.9% redistribution distance); Pembrokeshire (14.8% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the Wales valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Cardiff stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.