West Northamptonshire Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

West Northamptonshire'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 67.6% 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.

West Northamptonshire 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.

West Northamptonshire sits in the upper quarter of East Midlands on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,103.94. 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: Wyre

Wyre is the closest full-distribution match for West Northamptonshire. The profiles are close rather than identical: 3.2% of dwellings would need to shift between valuation bands for their published shares to align. The comparison therefore tests the whole ladder, not just the largest band.

Four largest band differences

• The largest separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. West Northamptonshire places 3.5% of dwellings there versus 2.0% for Wyre, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
• A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band E. Wyre records 10.8% of dwellings there, compared with 9.7% in West Northamptonshire, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 13.2% in West Northamptonshire and 14.1% in Wyre. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band C: West Northamptonshire has 24.8% of dwellings there, against 24.0% in Wyre. 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 Wyre
• Band B is closely balanced
• Band C leans toward West Northamptonshire
• Band D leans toward Wyre
• Band E leans toward Wyre
• Band F leans toward West Northamptonshire
• Band G leans toward West Northamptonshire
• Band H is closely balanced

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

Other close England matches for West Northamptonshire: Staffordshire Moorlands (3.9% redistribution distance); Rugby (4.1% redistribution distance); Stafford (4.5% redistribution distance); Brighton & Hove (4.8% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Wyre stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.