Council tax bands in Castle Point

Castle Point has the largest share of caravans, houseboats and mobile homes (4.8%), the third-smallest share of terraced houses (8.4%) and the joint fifth-largest share of bungalows (28.5%) of the 318 councils in England and Wales. It also has the third-smallest share of homes built before 1919 (1.8%) and the fourth-largest share built from 1965 to 1982 (34.8%).

The 1960s and 1970s built the most

The biggest building periods here were from 1965 to 1982, from 1945 to 1964 (29.1%) and between the wars (11.1%). Some 1,820 homes were built from 2016 to 2026. The middle home built from 2016 to 2026 is in band B, a lower band than the middle home built before 2016 (band C). Bands A and B take 54.9% of these newer homes and 23.1% of the older ones. Over the year to March 2026 the list lost a net 50 homes. Homes from the three largest building periods share the same middle band, band C. The busiest single year was 2016, with 280 homes recorded as built.

Bungalows are the largest group

The largest group of homes in Castle Point is bungalows, followed in turn by detached houses (25.4%), semi-detached houses (22.4%), flats and maisonettes (10.5%) and terraced houses. The typical home of each type sits in band E for detached houses, band C for bungalows, band C for semi-detached houses, band C for terraced houses and band B for flats and maisonettes. The widest gap to the rest of the East of England is in flats and maisonettes: 8.2 points below the share there (18.7%). The nearest property-type mix elsewhere belongs to Fenland, followed by North Norfolk and King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

The homes cluster in the middle bands

The homes in Castle Point gather in the middle of the ladder: bands C to E hold 68.5%, with band C the largest single band (35.1%). The share in bands A and B, 24.5%, is 18.6 points below the figure for England as a whole. Across the East of England it is 34.9%. Ranked by number of homes, the bands run C, D, B, E, A, F, G and H. Within the East of England, the band mix closest to this one is that of Cambridge. Band H, the top band, holds 70 homes.

Three bedrooms is the usual size

Three-bedroom homes (40.9%) are the most common size, then two-bedroom (27.2%) and four-bedroom (18.2%). Band climbs with size: the middle home is in band B with one bedroom, band C with two, band C with three, band E with four and band F with five. A detached house here has 3.6 bedrooms on average, a flat 1.6. Homes here average 2.75 bedrooms, more than the 2.66 for England. One-bedroom homes make up 10.8%.

Councils with a similar band mix

By band-mix distance (0 means identical), the councils closest to Castle Point are Gravesham (5.7), Greenwich (6.2) and Haringey (12.8); the furthest within the East of England is Norwich (102.5).

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Placed in the East of England

On the share of homes in band F or above, Castle Point comes 29th of the 45 councils in the East of England, just behind East Suffolk and just ahead of Southend-on-Sea. All East of England councils.