Windsor & Maidenhead Council Tax 2026

How to read this stock pattern

Here the standard Band D benchmark and the most common property group point to the same part of the distribution. That makes Windsor & Maidenhead less sensitive than most authorities to the familiar criticism that Band D is merely a reference property. The stock-weighted amount is still useful: it incorporates the lower and upper bands instead of treating the modal group as the whole area. It should be read as a corpus comparison, not as the bill of a particular address.

Windsor & Maidenhead 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.

Windsor & Maidenhead occupies the middle half of the South East stock-weighted distribution, below its £2,511.00 median. The regional result gives more context than a UK-wide rank without turning the difference into a superlative. It also shows that the council's band mix, not only its published Band D rate, determines where it sits among nearby authorities. The remaining distance from the median is an area-level comparison rather than a household saving or premium.

Closest housing-stock shape: Tandridge

Tandridge is the closest full-distribution match for Windsor & Maidenhead. The profiles are close rather than identical: 3.3% 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 is an upper-band difference at Band G. Tandridge records 16.7% of dwellings there, compared with 14.8% in Windsor & Maidenhead, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band C: Windsor & Maidenhead has 15.9% of dwellings there, against 14.2% in Tandridge. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
• A smaller distinction falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 24.6% of Windsor & Maidenhead's stock but 23.9% of Tandridge's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.
• A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band A: Windsor & Maidenhead has 3.2% of dwellings there, against 2.5% in Tandridge. 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 Windsor & Maidenhead
• Band B is closely balanced
• Band C leans toward Windsor & Maidenhead
• Band D leans toward Windsor & Maidenhead
• Band E leans toward Tandridge
• Band F is closely balanced
• Band G leans toward Tandridge
• Band H is closely balanced

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

Other close England matches for Windsor & Maidenhead: Three Rivers (4.2% redistribution distance); Hammersmith & Fulham (4.5% redistribution distance); Waverley (5.0% redistribution distance); St Albans (5.2% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Tandridge stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.