Council tax bands in Wiltshire

Wiltshire has the third-largest share of homes in band C (25.2%), the joint third-highest average number of bedrooms per home (2.89 bedrooms) and the third-largest number of homes built from 2016 to 2026 (20,780 homes) of the 27 councils in the South West. It also has the second-smallest share of its 2016 to 2026 homes placed in bands A and B (17.6%) and the third-largest number of homes on the valuation list (234,170 homes).

Three bedrooms is the usual size

Three-bedroom homes (43.2%) are the most common size, then two-bedroom (25.4%) and four-bedroom (18.9%). Band climbs with size: the middle home is in band A with one bedroom, band B with two, band C with three, band E with four and band F with five. One-bedroom homes make up 7.6%. A detached house here has 3.8 bedrooms on average, a flat 1.6.

The 1960s and 1970s built the most

The biggest building periods here were from 1965 to 1982 (19.1%), before 1900 (16.6%) and from 1983 to 1999 (16.5%). The middle home built from 2016 to 2026 is in band D, a higher band than the middle home built before 2016 (band C). By build period, the middle home sits in band C for homes built from 1965 to 1982, band D for homes built before 1900 and band C for those built from 1983 to 1999. Over the year to March 2026 the list grew by a net 1,060 homes (+0.45%). The busiest single year was 2019, with 2,830 homes recorded as built.

The homes cluster in the middle bands

The homes in Wiltshire gather in the middle of the ladder: bands C to E hold 56.5%, with band C the largest single band. The share in bands A and B, 30.0%, is 13.1 points below the figure for England as a whole. Across the South West it is 41.3%. Ranked by number of homes, the bands run C, B, D, E, A, F, G and H. Band H, the top band, holds 1,380 homes, about one in every 170. Within the South West, the band mix closest to this one is that of Bath and North East Somerset.

Detached houses and semis, almost level

Detached houses (26.3%) only just outnumber the other types in Wiltshire; in order they are followed by semi-detached houses (24.9%), terraced houses (23.2%), flats and maisonettes (12.4%) and bungalows (11.4%). The typical home of each type sits in band E for detached houses, band D for bungalows, band C for semi-detached houses, band C for terraced houses and band A for flats and maisonettes. The nearest property-type mix elsewhere belongs to West Oxfordshire, followed by East Staffordshire and Stroud. The widest gap to the rest of the South West is in flats and maisonettes: 7.9 points below the share there (20.3%). The list also counts 2,000 caravans, houseboats and mobile homes.

Councils with a similar band mix

By band-mix distance (0 means identical), the councils closest to Wiltshire are Rushcliffe (7.7), East Devon (8.2) and Dorset (9.3); the furthest within the South West is the Isles of Scilly (83.9).

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Placed in the South West

On the share of homes in band F or above, Wiltshire comes 5th of the 27 councils in the South West, just behind East Devon and just ahead of Bath and North East Somerset. All South West councils.