Official Statistics

Council Tax: stock of properties, 2020

Stock of properties by Council Tax Band and property attributes in England and Wales.

Published 24 September 2020

From:

Valuation Office Agency

Documents

Background information

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Table CTSOP1.0: number of properties by Council Tax band and region, county and local authority district

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Table CTSOP1.0_SUP: number of properties by Council Tax band and region, county and local authority district

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Table CTSOP1.1: number of properties by Council Tax band and region, county, local authority district and lower and middle super output area

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Table CTSOP2.0: number of properties by Council Tax band and Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies

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Table CTSOP3.0: number of properties by Council Tax band, property type and region, county and local authority district

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Table CTSOP4.0: number of properties by Council Tax band, property build period and region, county and local authority district

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Details

This release includes details of number of properties by Council Tax Band at various geographic levels (national, regional, Local authority district, Westminster parliamentary constituency and lower and middle layer super output areas) together with breakdowns by property type (including bedroom count) and build period. The counts are calculated from domestic property data for England and Wales extracted from the Valuation Office Agency’s administrative database on 31 March 2020. Data on property types and number of bedrooms have been used to form property categories by which to view the data and data on build period has been used to create property build period categories.

The counts shown at Westminster parliamentary constituency and lower and middle layer super output areas are estimated by merging the VOA administrative data with the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) file in accordance with guidance from the Office for National Statistics.

A supplementary table showing the number of properties by Council Tax band and region, county and local authority district as at 14 September 2020 is included in this publication. Counts in the tables are rounded to the nearest 10 with counts of zero being reported as “0” and counts fewer than 5 reported as negligible and denoted by “-“.

The key highlights from the official statistics are:

• There were 26.1 million domestic properties with a Council Tax band in England and Wales as at 31 March 2020. This consists of 24.7 million (94%) in England and 1.4 million (6%) in Wales.
• Within England, the South East region had the largest proportion of domestic properties with a Council Tax band (16%, 4.0 million) of the total in England, followed by London (15%, 3.7 million) and the North West (13%, 3.3 million). The North East region had the fewest domestic properties (5%, 1.2 million) in England.
• In England, domestic properties with Council Tax band A were the largest group by band, making up 24% of all properties. In Wales, domestic properties with Council Tax band C made up the largest group (22%) by band.
• In England and Wales, there were 6.9 million (26%) terraced houses with a Council Tax band, making this the most popular property type, followed by semi-detached houses (24%, 6.2 million).

For further details on the information included in this release, including a glossary of terms and a variable list for the CSV format files, please refer to the background information document.

If you have any questions or comments about this release, please email the VOA statistics team at:

The VOA statistics team

Emailstatistics@voa.gov.uk

Published 24 September 2020