Council tax bands in Basingstoke and Deane

82,400 homesSouth EastHampshire

Basingstoke and Deane has the sixth-largest share of homes built from 1965 to 1982 (31.8%) of the 318 councils in England and Wales. Among the eleven councils in Hampshire, it has the smallest share of homes built between 1919 and 1939 (3.8%) and the largest share built from 2000 to 2015 (14.9%).

The 1960s and 1970s built the most

The biggest building periods here were from 1965 to 1982, from 1983 to 1999 (17.0%) and from 2000 to 2015. Homes from before 1919 make up 8.1%, 11.8 points below the share for England. Some 8,390 homes were built from 2016 to 2026. The middle home built from 2016 to 2026 is in band D, a higher band than the middle home built before 2016 (band C). Bands A and B take 20.9% of these newer homes and 19.4% of the older ones. Over the year to March 2026 the list grew by a net 710 homes (+0.87%). By build period, the middle home sits in band C for homes built from 1965 to 1982, band D for homes built from 1983 to 1999 and band C for those built from 2000 to 2015. The busiest single year was 2020, with 1,210 homes recorded as built.

The homes cluster in the middle bands

The homes in Basingstoke and Deane gather in the middle of the ladder: bands C to E hold 67.2%, with band C the largest single band (34.2%). The share in bands A and B, 19.5%, is 23.6 points below the figure for England as a whole. Across the South East it is 25.3%. Ranked by number of homes, the bands run C, D, B, E, F, G, A and H. Band H, the top band, holds 470 homes. Within the South East, the band mix closest to this one is that of Test Valley.

Terraced houses are the largest group

The largest group of homes in Basingstoke and Deane is terraced houses at 29.2%, followed in turn by detached houses (24.3%), semi-detached houses (18.9%), flats and maisonettes (18.2%) and bungalows (8.5%). The typical home of each type sits in band E for detached houses, band D for bungalows, band D for semi-detached houses, band C for terraced houses and band B for flats and maisonettes. The nearest property-type mix elsewhere belongs to Milton Keynes, followed by the Vale of Glamorgan and Redditch. The widest gap to the rest of the South East is in terraced houses: 5.7 points above the share there (23.5%). The list also counts 370 caravans, houseboats and mobile homes.

Three bedrooms is the usual size

Three-bedroom homes (43.1%) are the most common size, then two-bedroom (24.6%) and four-bedroom (17.8%). Band climbs with size: the middle home is in band B with one bedroom, band C with two, band D with three, band E with four and band G with five. A detached house here has 3.8 bedrooms on average, a flat 1.6. Homes here average 2.81 bedrooms, more than the 2.66 for England. One-bedroom homes make up 10.5%.

Councils with a similar band mix

By band-mix distance (0 means identical), the councils closest to Basingstoke and Deane are North Hertfordshire (8.4), West Oxfordshire (11.3) and Bracknell Forest (12.5); the furthest within the South East is Southampton (91.7).

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Placed in the South East

On the share of homes in band F or above, Basingstoke and Deane comes 35th of the 64 councils in the South East, just behind the New Forest and just ahead of Lewes. All South East councils.