Wealden Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Wealden'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 40.9% 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.

Wealden 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.

Wealden sits in the upper quarter of South East on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,511.00. 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: Chichester

Chichester is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Wealden: moving 2.0% 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 sits at lower Band C, where Chichester holds 24.8% of its stock and Wealden holds 23.8%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band H. Chichester records 2.2% of dwellings there, compared with 1.3% in Wealden, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: Wealden has 11.3% of dwellings there, against 10.6% in Chichester. 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 E. Wealden places 16.0% of dwellings there versus 15.6% for Chichester, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.

How the wider profile compares

Show every band direction

• Band A is closely balanced
• Band B leans toward Wealden
• Band C leans toward Chichester
• Band D is closely balanced
• Band E is closely balanced
• Band F is closely balanced
• Band G is closely balanced
• Band H leans toward Chichester

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

Other close England matches for Wealden: East Hampshire (2.0% redistribution distance); Winchester (3.3% redistribution distance); Tunbridge Wells (4.8% redistribution distance); Wandsworth (4.9% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Chichester stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.