Council tax bands in Wokingham

Wokingham has the joint fifth-largest share of detached houses (36.0%), the fourth-highest average number of bedrooms per home (3.02 bedrooms) and the joint tenth-largest share of homes built from 1983 to 1999 (20.5%) of the 318 councils in England and Wales. It also has the sixth-largest share of homes in band E (22.6%) and the seventh-largest share in band F (14.8%) of the 296 councils in England.

Three bedrooms is the usual size

Three-bedroom homes (39.3%) are the most common size, then four-bedroom (25.1%) and two-bedroom (21.9%). Band climbs with size: the middle home is in band B with one bedroom, band C with two, band D with three, band F with four and band G with five. One-bedroom homes make up 7.5%. A detached house here has 3.8 bedrooms on average, a flat 1.7.

The homes cluster in the middle bands

The homes in Wokingham gather in the middle of the ladder: bands C to E hold 66.9%, with band D the largest single band (28.1%). The share in bands A and B, 8.4%, is 34.7 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 D, E, C, F, G, B, A and H. Band H, the top band, holds 580 homes. Within the South East, the band mix closest to this one is that of Reigate and Banstead.

Detached houses are the largest group

The largest group of homes in Wokingham is detached houses, followed in turn by semi-detached houses (24.2%), terraced houses (15.8%), flats and maisonettes (14.4%) and bungalows (7.1%). The list also counts 930 caravans, houseboats and mobile homes. The widest gap to the rest of the South East is in flats and maisonettes: 9.2 points below the share there (23.6%). The typical home of each type sits in band F for detached houses, band E for bungalows, band D for semi-detached houses, band D for terraced houses and band C for flats and maisonettes. The nearest property-type mix elsewhere belongs to Uttlesford, followed by Surrey Heath and Monmouthshire.

The 1960s and 1970s built the most

The biggest building periods here were from 1965 to 1982 (22.4%), from 1983 to 1999 and from 1945 to 1964 (18.3%). Homes from before 1919 make up 5.7%, 14.2 points below the share for England. Some 10,480 homes were built from 2016 to 2026. The middle home built from 2016 to 2026 is in band D, the same as the middle home built before 2016. Bands A and B take 10.8% of these newer homes and 8.1% of the older ones. By build period, the middle home sits in band D for homes built from 1965 to 1982, band E for homes built from 1983 to 1999 and band D for those built from 1945 to 1964. Over the year to March 2026 the list grew by a net 420 homes (+0.56%). The busiest single year was 2019, with 1,840 homes recorded as built.

Councils with a similar band mix

By band-mix distance (0 means identical), the councils closest to Wokingham are Epsom and Ewell (10.0), St Albans (12.1) and Surrey Heath (14.6); the furthest within the South East is Portsmouth (124.2).

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Placed in the South East

On the share of homes in band F or above, Wokingham comes 14th of the 64 councils in the South East, just behind Reigate and Banstead and just ahead of Winchester. All South East councils.