Council tax bands in Burnley

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Burnley has the third-largest share of two-bedroom homes (44.2%), the tenth-largest share of terraced houses (49.1%) and the sixth-smallest share of homes built from 2000 to 2015 (4.9%) of the 318 councils in England and Wales. It also has the joint sixth-largest share of homes in band A (59.6%) and the joint seventh-smallest share in band F or above (1.1%) of the 296 councils in England.

Most homes are in the two lowest bands

Bands A and B hold 73.3% of the homes in Burnley. The share in the middle bands, C to E, 25.6%, is 22.0 points below the figure for England as a whole. Across the North West it is 34.6%. Within the North West, the band mix closest to this one is that of Blackburn with Darwen. Ranked by number of homes, the bands run A, C, B, D, E, F and G. Band H, the top band, holds 20 homes.

Homes from before 1900 lead

The biggest building periods here were before 1900 (33.1%), from 1965 to 1982 (14.4%) and between the wars (12.1%). Some 2,540 homes were built from 2016 to 2026. The middle home built from 2016 to 2026 is in band B, a higher band than the middle home built before 2016 (band A). Bands A and B take 62.2% of these newer homes and 74.2% of the older ones. By build period, the middle home sits in band A for homes built before 1900, band C for homes built from 1965 to 1982 and band B for those built between the wars. Over the year to March 2026 the list grew by a net 230 homes (+0.53%). The busiest single year was 2022, with 350 homes recorded as built.

Two bedrooms is the usual size

Two-bedroom homes are the most common size, then three-bedroom (36.6%) and one-bedroom (9.1%). Band climbs with size: the middle home is in band A with one bedroom, band A with two, band B with three, band D with four and band D with five. Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 10.2%. Homes here average 2.49 bedrooms, fewer than the 2.66 for England. A detached house here has 3.6 bedrooms on average, a flat 1.4.

Terraced houses are the largest group

The largest group of homes in Burnley is terraced houses, followed in turn by semi-detached houses (21.5%), flats and maisonettes (9.7%), detached houses (9.6%) and bungalows (9.3%). The typical home of each type sits in band D for detached houses, band C for bungalows, band B for semi-detached houses, band A for flats and maisonettes and band A for terraced houses. The widest gap to the rest of the North West is in flats and maisonettes: 8.8 points below the share there (18.5%). The nearest property-type mix elsewhere belongs to Hyndburn, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Councils with a similar band mix

By band-mix distance (0 means identical), the councils closest to Burnley are Sunderland (4.0), Gateshead (4.3) and Hyndburn (5.6); the furthest within the North West is Ribble Valley (93.2).

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Placed in the North West

On the share of homes in bands C to E, Burnley comes 30th of the 35 councils in the North West, just behind Blackburn with Darwen and just ahead of Hyndburn. All North West councils.